THE FLORIDA BUILDING CODE - City of Coral Springs

Florida Statutes, within the scope of her or his license.
The named contractor to whom the building permit is
issued shall have the responsibility for supervision, direction,
management and control of the construction activities
on the project for which the building permit was
issued.
110.3.5.7 The building department may allow a special
inspector to conduct the minimum structural inspection
of threshold buildings required by this Code, Section
553.73, Florida Statutes, without duplicative inspection
by the building department. The Building Official is responsible
for ensuring that any person conducting inspections
is qualified as a building inspector under Part
XII of Chapter 468, Florida Statutes, or certified as a
special inspector under Chapter 471 or 481, Florida
Statutes. Inspections of threshold buildings required by
Section 553.79(5), Florida Statutes, are in addition to
the minimum inspections required by this Code.
110.3.6 Energy efficiency inspections. Reserved.
110.3.7 Other Inspections:
110.3.8 The Building Official may require Special Structural
Inspections Section 110.10.
110.4 Inspection requests. It shall be the duty of the holder of
the building permit or their duly authorized agent (person, firm
or corporation performing the work) to notify the Building
Official when work is ready for inspection. Failure to request
such inspections constitutes a violation of this Code. The
inspection request shall be made to the Building Department
office at least one day prior to the required inspection and shall
provide reasonable time for such inspections to be made.
Inspections shall be made not later than the following workday
after the day of the request for inspection when a request is made
prior to 12:00 noon. Requests for inspections received after 12:00
noon, shall be made not later than the day after the following
workday.
110.5 Construction inspected by the Building Department may
be rejected or approval refused for reasons of incompleteness or
code violation. The work shall be made to comply and the
request for inspection repeated as outlined herein. It shall be
assumed that the responsible individual or individuals in charge
of the work shall have themselves inspected the work and found
it to be in compliance with this Code and plans requirements
before the request for inspection is made. It is the responsibility
of the permit holder to insure that the job is accessible and means
for inspections of such work that are required by this Code for all
requested inspections. Failure to provide for this access shall
constitute a violation of this Code.
110.6 Examination of all structural, electrical, plumbing and
mechanical items may be performed by Inspectors only when
holding current certification in the respective disciplines issued
by the BORA.
Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals
Effective Date: March 15, 2012
110.7 The Inspector shall inspect all work for which a request for
inspection is made and shall, after inspection, either approve by
signing the appropriate sections of the building permit card or
inspection record or disapprove the work and notify the permit
holder of the discrepancies found and order corrections within a
reasonable period of time. Violations and/or correction notices
shall be written and posted at the job site stating the specific
reference to the Code Section(s) that have been violated. Any
person, firm or corporation who fails to correct defective work
within ten days after having been duly notified of such defects
shall not be issued any further permits by the Building Department.
Permits will resume after the defects have been corrected,
inspected and approved or upon the filing of an appeal with the
BORA. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation,
or their agents or employees, to cover or conceal any wiring for
light, heat, power or low voltage systems until the appropriate
Sections of the building permit card and/or inspection record are
signed, signifying that the wiring has been inspected and
approved.
110.8 During such periods of time that an area or areas of
Broward County is deemed a Federal or State declared Disaster
Area, building owners and/or their designated representatives
may institute temporary repairs to their property, in order to
restore the impermeability to the building envelope and/or to
secure the property. Such repairs shall be temporary in nature, so
as to minimize further damage to the property, and may be
undertaken without repair permits and inspections by the local
building department, as long as the damaged building components
and their respective attachments are not permanently
concealed.
110.9 Approval required. No work shall be done on any part of
a building or structure or any, electrical, mechanical or plumbing
installation beyond the point indicated herein above for each
successive inspection until such inspection has been made and
the work approved and the Inspector has so indicated on the
permit card or an inspection record pad at the job site which has
been approved by the Building Official.
110.10 Special Building Inspector.
110.10.1 The Building Official upon the recommendation of
the Chief Structural Inspector or upon the Building Official’s
initiative may require the owner to employ a special
inspector for the inspection of the structural framework, or
any part thereof, as herein required:
110.10.1.1 Buildings or structures or part thereof of unusual
size, height, design or method of construction and
critical structural connections.
1. Placement of Piling
2. Windows, glass doors, external protection devices and
curtain walls on buildings over two stories.
3. The method or pace of construction requires continuous
inspection.
4. In the opinion of the Building Official, any other additional
inspections that are required.
2010 FBC — Building 1.39
Broward County Administrative Provisions