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Broward Building Safety Inspection Program: The Electrical Side

Broward and Miami-Dade run different programs, with different forms and different timing. If your building is in Miami-Dade, see Electrical Building Recertification readiness in Miami-Dade. Not sure which county or city has your building? See Miami-Dade vs Broward.

What the Broward program requires

• The program is set by Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals (BORA) Policy 05-05, effective August 9, 2024, and covers structural and electrical safety inspections.
• A building is first inspected when it reaches 25 years of age, based on the date its certificate of occupancy was issued, and then every 10 years from the year the first inspection was required.
• The policy exempts some buildings, including one to four family dwellings with three or fewer habitable stories, fee-simple townhouses, and buildings under 3,500 square feet. Your notice confirms whether your building is covered.
• The notice comes from the building official for your building's jurisdiction, either your city's building department or Broward County's Building Code Division for unincorporated areas and contracted cities.
• The inspection and report are due within 180 days of receiving the notice (the building official may extend up to 60 days), and required repairs generally get another 180 days from the report date. Use the date printed on your notice.
• Florida's statewide milestone inspection (s. 553.899, F.S.) is a structural inspection for condominium and cooperative buildings three habitable stories or taller. In both Miami-Dade and Broward, the local recertification or Building Safety Inspection done on the milestone schedule counts toward that requirement, so it can move your dates. Check your notice.
• The Electrical Safety Inspection report is completed by a qualified Florida-licensed professional specializing in electrical design. Reports bear the seal and signature of the licensed engineer or architect and include the BORA Structural and Electrical Safety Inspection report forms. Use the current forms from your building official.
• Worker safety (a BORA program qualification, not a building code requirement): Under Policy 05-05, anyone who removes electrical equipment covers for the inspection must be familiar with NFPA 70E and OSHA 1910 (worker-safety standards; see 29 CFR 1910.331–.335), verified with a certificate of completion.
• Policy 05-05 has no thermography requirement. Miami-Dade's thermography rule does not carry over to Broward.

Source: Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals Policy 05-05, Building Safety Inspection Program (effective August 9, 2024). The building official for your building's jurisdiction administers the program. Confirm every date and requirement against your own notice.

What the board should prepare

1. The notice: date, case number, issuing authority, deadline, and which disciplines it requires.
2. Building facts: folio, legal description, year built, stories, number of buildings, association contact.
3. Prior inspection or recertification reports, all disciplines.
4. Electrical drawings, panel schedules, one-line diagram, and generator or transfer-switch data, if you have them.
5. Permit history: open or expired permits and any code cases. A records search is part of the work, so a missing file is fine.
6. Service size as your records show it (amps, voltage, number of meter banks).
7. A list of electrical rooms, meter centers, roof equipment and panels.
8. The latest fire alarm inspection report, and generator exercise and load-test logs.
9. One access contact with keys to every electrical room and roof, plus resident notice if unit panels must be seen.
10. A note of any recent electrical work, water events or insurance claims.

What to expect from the engineer's visit

• A walk-through of every listed room and panel, photos with equipment IDs, and a log of anything that could not be reached.
• If something looks urgent, the engineer tells the contact on site and follows up in writing that day.
• The building department sets its own review times.

What MasterBuild does on a Broward building

• Readiness review: existing records checked against the building, with a clear list of what is missing.
• Records send-list: one list of what to forward. We send building staff one request for any gaps.
• Key-holder and access plan: electrical rooms, roof equipment, tenant panels and risers, planned so the site visit is not wasted.
• Board summary in English and Spanish: one page of status and open decisions. It is not the inspection report and contains no condition ratings.
• Handoff package for the professional performing the inspection, who makes independent findings.

Fee

Broward electrical readiness work is a fixed fee in writing after we review the notice and the records you have. Added scope is quoted in writing first. The 10-Day Electrical Readiness Package (Recertification) covers Miami-Dade buildings up to three stories only. It does not cover Broward buildings or threshold buildings, which are quoted separately.

Educational only. Requirements depend on your notice, your building and the current rules of your building department. Not a code determination for your property.

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