City of Bunnell

A city address is usually permitted by the city, not the county — but not always, and some authorities keep building and hand electrical to someone else. Getting this wrong costs the whole submittal, because every requirement below belongs to whoever actually holds jurisdiction. Check the overlays in the same pass: an HOA, a historic district, a windstorm certification or a system-size cap can reshape the design, and all of them are cheaper to find now than after the array is laid out.

• Is this authority the AHJ for residential solar at this address? Yes. The City of Bunnell Building Division is the AHJ for residential solar inside the city limits — it issues the permit, does the plan review, and performs every inspection itself. Flagler County does NOT permit inside Bunnell. 96% · department page + county department page + county ordinance + adopted budget
• What does this authority permit itself, and what does it delegate? Both, in-house: building permit, electrical trade permit, plan review, all inspections and final sign-off are the City's. NOT delegated to Flagler County. Contractor licensing above the state licence is also the CITY's (City contractor registration + a current Bunnell Business Tax Receipt) — Flagler County's Contractor Licensing Code is scoped to the unincorporated county, so the county-licensing split that Flagler Beach has does NOT apply in Bunnell. Fire protection and fire response are Flagler County Fire Rescue's. 92% · county department page + county ordinance + city permit application
• Is a permit required for a residential rooftop PV system? Yes. The City publishes a named permit route for it: the 'Electric / Plumbing / Gas / Solar / Irrigation / Utility Permit Checklist'. 'Solar' appears in the title of the City's own permit packet even though the word appears zero times in the City's Code of Ordinances, its Land Development Code and the Flagler County Code. 95% · published permit checklist
• Is there a separate electrical permit, or is it combined? Combined onto one application. A rooftop PV job goes on the single Electric/Plumbing/Gas/Solar/Irrigation/Utility permit packet, not a building permit plus a separate electrical permit. CAUTION: Resolution 2024-13 carries BOTH a Section 2 valuation ladder that reaches 'all construction ... and other improvements' AND a Section 3 electrical schedule priced by service amperage, and nothing in it says which one a PV job pays — or whether it pays both. 72% · published permit checklist + fee resolution
• Is a HOA or architectural approval required first? Yes where an HOA exists — and this is the City making it a permit condition, not the HOA. The solar checklist lists 'H.O.A. Approval (Needed for properties that reside in Grand Reserve or other HOA associated properties)' as a submittal item for the solar permit. *** FS 163.04(2) caps what that approval can do: a deed restriction or HOA 'may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting solar collectors', and the entity may only 'determine the specific location where solar collectors may be installed on the roof within an orientation to the south or within 45 degrees east or west of due south if such determination does not impair the effective operation of the solar collectors'. *** 88% · Florida Statute + city submittal checklist
• Is there a historic-district review? No historic district and no certificate-of-appropriateness ordinance exists in Bunnell. But there IS an architectural gate with a different name: LDC Sec. 18-55(a) — where a historic structure or area is identified on the natural resource management areas map, 'no structure shall be constructed or remodeled ... within 500 feet of the structure without approval by the city commission', and the Commission's review 'shall consider the scale, architectural style, colors, and other physical characteristics of the proposed development'. 'No final approval shall be given until the plan has been revised to reflect the city commission's recommendations.' 80% · codified land development code
• Is a wind or windstorm certification required? No separate windstorm certification. Florida Product Approval under FS 553.842 is the mechanism, collected on the City's own 'Bunnell Product Approval Specification Sheet'. Bunnell is NOT in the HVHZ (Miami-Dade and Broward only). Flagler County's codified ultimate-design-wind-speed lines at County Sec. 8-32(a) — 120/130/140/150 mph by Risk Category, plus a wind-borne debris line that runs along the coast and the Intracoastal — are expressly adopted 'for use in the unincorporated portions of Flagler County' and so do not bind Bunnell; the ASCE 7 maps referenced by FBC 1609 do. 80% · city product approval form + county ordinance
• Is a Specific Use Permit or Council approval ever required? Not for a normal rooftop array — a PV system on a dwelling is a customary single-family accessory use under LDC Sec. 34-111(b)(1) and needs no special exception, and one- and two-family development on an existing platted lot is exempt from site plan review altogether under Sec. 22-3(b)(1). Two routes to a board do exist: City Commission approval under Sec. 18-55(a) within 500 ft of a mapped historic structure, and the Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board's special-exception route at Sec. 34-111(c)(4) for 'other uses not listed above'. 72% · codified land development code
• Is there a system-size cap on residential generation? No cap in any Bunnell instrument. The binding caps are FPL's: Tier 1 is 10 kW AC or less; gross power rating must not exceed 90% of the customer's utility distribution service rating; and the system 'must be estimated to produce less than 115% of your annual kWh consumption'. AC rating = DC array rating x 0.85, and that AC number sets the tier. 88% · utility tariff agreement

Several authorities require the electrical permit to be pulled by a licensed electrician, or require the contractor to be registered with them BEFORE applying. Registration is not same-day. This is second on the list rather than fourth because it is the step most likely to stop the job before the drawings matter.

• Who is allowed to pull the electrical permit? A Florida-licensed contractor whose licence number and Bunnell Business Tax Number both go on the face of the application, or the property owner as an owner-builder under FS 489.103 with a notarised Disclosure Statement and Owner/Builder Affidavit. 90% · permit application form
• Must the contractor be registered with this authority before applying? Yes — twice over. A contractor must (a) file the City's Contractor Registration Form with a copy of the state licence, insurance and workers' compensation (or exemption), and (b) hold a current City of Bunnell Business Tax Receipt. Both are City registrations; no Flagler County competency card is required inside the city. 93% · city registration form
• Is a homeowner permitted to self-install and self-permit? Yes. Owner-builder self-permitting is available on the same packet: Owner/Builder Affidavit plus the notarised FS 489.103 Disclosure Statement, with the owner acknowledging direct on-site supervision and the one-year sale/lease presumption. 90% · permit packet

Almost everywhere wants a site plan, a one-line or three-line electrical diagram, equipment cut sheets with listings, and a structural attachment detail. Build it against the published checklist rather than the last jurisdiction you worked in — the checklist is what the reviewer marks against.

• What documents make up a complete submittal? Per the City's own solar checklist: (1) Permit Application; (2) Permit Authorization Form (not needed if the work is valued over $2,500 or the owner is the contractor); (3) Proof of property ownership — recorded warranty deed or Property Appraiser printout; (4) Disclosure Statement if owner-builder (FS 489.103); (5) Notice of Commencement recorded and certified by the Flagler County Clerk of Court when labour + materials exceed $2,500 (FS 713.135); (6) 2 sets of plans OR a detailed scope of work; (7) 2 survey/site plans; (8) H.O.A. approval for properties in Grand Reserve or another HOA. 94% · published submittal checklist
• How many copies, and in what format? Two sets of plans (or a detailed scope of work) and two survey/site plans. Submission is by upload through the City's online permitting portal, or hard copy at the Community Development Office during business hours. 90% · submittal checklist + department page
• Is a site plan required, and what must it show? Yes — '2 Survey/Site Plans'. The solar checklist does not itemise what they must show. The itemised list (NGVD elevations, finished floor, spot elevations, setbacks, mean roof height, lot coverage, grading, fill) belongs to the Single Family Residence packet and is written for new construction, not for a trade permit. 80% · submittal checklist
• Is a one-line / three-line diagram required? Not required by any published City document. The solar checklist asks only for '2 Set of Plans or Detailed Scope of Work'; a one-line or three-line diagram is nowhere named. 70% · submittal checklist + enumerated document library
• Are string and conductor calculations required? Not required by any published City document. Same absence and same proof as the one-line diagram. 68% · submittal checklist + enumerated document library
• Is a structural PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No local threshold is published, and the solar checklist requires no seal at all. By contrast the City's Single Family Residence packet demands '2 Set of Building Plans (Folded and Stapled) sealed by an architect or engineer' — so Bunnell knows how to ask for a seal and has not asked for one on the solar route. FBC 107.3.5 and the Building Official's discretion remain. 70% · permit checklists compared
• Is an electrical PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No local rule. The state exemption governs: FS 471.003(2)(h) exempts an electrical contractor's own design work where the electrical system value is $125,000 or less AND the aggregate service capacity is 600 amperes (240 V) or less on a residential system. Read verbatim from the statute this session. 65% · Florida Statute

Most authorities now take the whole application through a portal, and several states cap or constrain what a residential solar permit may cost. Check whether plan check is billed separately before you quote the job.

• Which permit portal does this authority use? GeoCivix, the citizen access portal operated by CAP Government, at cap.geocivix.com/secure/. The City links it from the Building Division page as 'Online Permitting Portal'. 92% · portal landing page + department page
• Can the whole application be completed online? Yes for submission — applicants 'are required to complete the applicable permit application forms and upload the completed application, along with all supporting documents, through the City's online permitting portal', with hard copy also accepted. Inspections are the contradiction: the Building Division page says 'All inspections must be requested in advance by phone or email through the Building Division', while the portal's own home page offers 'Schedule an Inspection'. Both are live; the department page is the safer instruction. 80% · department page + portal
• What does a residential solar permit cost? No named solar fee line exists. A PV job falls to the generic ladder of Resolution 2024-13 (adopted 14 Oct 2024). Worked example on a $25,000 residential rooftop PV job: application fee $60 (permit cost over $200) + valuation fee $179 ($104 for the first $10,000, then $5 per additional $1,000) + plan review $50 (residential additions & renovations/remodels) + Development Technology base fee $10 = about $299, BEFORE any Section 3 electrical charge, which is priced by service size ($30 minimum; $160 at 200 A; amps x $0.80 above 250 A). State pass-through surcharges are added on top (Section 7). *** FOR CONTRAST: Flagler County's own fee schedule carries a line that simply reads 'Solar $25 + Valuation' at $3 per $1,000 — about $100 on the same job. A Bunnell PV permit costs roughly three times the county's, and the reason is that the City has no solar line, so the job defaults to the generic residential ladder. *** 82% · adopted fee resolution
• How is the fee calculated? Tiered by valuation, with a flat application fee on top. Valuation is 'the greater of' the most recent ICC Building Valuation Data or the actual construction cost / contract price. Ladder: $0-$1,000 = $50; $1,001-$10,000 = $50 + $6 per additional thousand; $10,001-$100,000 = $104 + $5 per additional thousand; $100,001-$500,000 = $554 + $3 per additional thousand. Electrical permits are instead priced per service size. 90% · adopted fee resolution
• Is there a separate plan-check fee? Yes. PLANS REVIEW FEES are a separate line: new single-family residence (SFR and duplex) $100; residential additions & renovations/remodels $50; new commercial/industrial/each multi-family building $500. A rooftop PV retrofit reads onto the $50 residential renovation line. 85% · adopted fee resolution

Interconnection is a separate process from the permit and usually the longer pole. Where the utility does not depend on the permit being issued, running both at once is the single biggest saving available on a residential job.

• What is the stated plan-review turnaround? The City publishes no turnaround — its Building Division page says only 'Permit processing times vary depending on project type and completeness of submission.' The binding answer is the statute: FS 553.792(1)(a)1 gives 5 BUSINESS DAYS for an electrical permit on an existing single-family residential dwelling where the value of the work is under $15,000; above $15,000 the job drops to (1)(a)2 at 30 BUSINESS DAYS for a structure under 7,500 sq ft. Most residential PV jobs land in the 30-business-day band. 85% · Florida Statute + department page
• How long is an issued permit valid before it expires? No local validity period is published. FS 553.79(1)(c) governs: 'A building permit issued by a local government for a single-family dwelling expires 1 year after the issuance of the permit or on the effective date of the next edition of the Florida Building Code, whichever is later.' Bunnell's fee resolution presumes expiry without stating it — it prices a PERMIT RENEWAL FEE as a percentage of the original (100% with no inspections performed, 60% after slab, 40% after framing, 20% before final) and a $25 Permit Extension Request. 70% · Florida Statute + fee resolution
• Which utility handles interconnection here? Florida Power & Light (peninsular FPL, not the FPL Northwest Florida / ex-Gulf Power region). Bunnell sells water, sewer, stormwater and sanitation — it does not sell electricity. 93% · codified franchise appendix + adopted budget + utility's own page
• Where does the utility sit in the sequence? Parallel, with a hard gate at the end. FPL requires the interconnection application to be approved BEFORE installation ('All interconnection applications must be approved prior to installation and operation'), and the City's permit runs alongside. PTO comes after the City's final: FPL wants 'a copy of the approved permit or a screen print from the local authority's website' showing the electrical and mechanical inspections signed off. Operating the system before the bi-directional meter is installed is 'strictly prohibited'. 90% · utility interconnection guidelines

The NEC edition a jurisdiction enforces is often a cycle behind the newest one published, and local amendments sit on top of it. Rapid shutdown, conductor sizing and labelling all change between editions, so the edition in force is the first thing to establish, not the last.

• Which NEC edition is in force? 2020 NEC. In force as part of the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023), effective 31 December 2023. 90% · county department page + city codified adoption
• Which building code edition is in force? Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023), reached by the floating clause in LDC Sec. 6-33(a). The three-document test fails badly here: (1) THE CODE prints 'Florida Building Code—2004 edition, with appendices and local amendments; Florida Building Code—2001 edition, Chapter 1 and appendices; Standard Plumbing Code—1994; Standard Gas Code—1994; Standard Mechanical Code—1994; Standard Swimming Pool Code—1994; Standard Fire Prevention Code—1994; Life Safety Code—1974' (Sec. 6-31); (2) THE DEPARTMENT PAGE names no year at all, linking out to codes.iccsafe.org's Florida page; (3) THE APPLICATION FORM names no year either, but its Product Approval sheet cites 'Florida Administrative Code 9B-72' — a rule chapter retired when product approval moved to the DBPR — and 'FBC Chapter 10, Section 1026.2' for emergency egress windows, a 2010-vintage IBC number that in any case governs FBC-Building, not a dwelling (FBC-Residential R310 does). 88% · codified land development code + department page + permit form
• Which fire code edition is in force? Florida Fire Prevention Code 8th Edition (2023) by state adoption. Bunnell has no current local fire code adoption ordinance — its LDC Sec. 6-31 still names the 'Standard Fire Prevention Code—1994 edition' and the 'Life Safety Code—1974 edition', and Sec. 6-61 defines fire terms by reference to the Life Safety Code. Fire service and fire code enforcement are Flagler County Fire Rescue's. 70% · codified land development code
• Are there local amendments to any of the above? Yes, and they are live and they reach electrical work on a house. LDC Sec. 6-34 'Amendments and modifications to National Electrical Code' (Ord. 1996-5, exhibit A, Sec. 3) is still codified in Supplement 18 (Oct 2024), together with Sec. 6-35 amending the withdrawn Standard Swimming Pool Code. Sec. 6-34's opening words are 'The following are SUPPLEMENTAL to the provisions of the National Electrical Code' — supplemental, not superseding: there is no supremacy clause of the kind found in Washington County, so where a 1996 local rule conflicts with NEC 2020 the NEC should win. That distinction has never been tested here. 94% · codified land development code
• What is the installation judged against? NEC 2020 as adopted through FBC 8th Edition (2023), PLUS Bunnell LDC Sec. 6-34's supplemental local electrical rules, PLUS Florida Product Approval under FS 553.842 for roofing and structural attachment components. The inspector is the City's Building Official, currently a contracted Bureau Veritas employee. 88% · codified land development code + county department page

Ridge setbacks and roof access pathways are fire-service requirements and they constrain the array layout. They are the most common cause of a redesign after the fire department comments on a plan set.

• What ridge setback and access pathways are required? No local amendment. Florida Fire Prevention Code 8th Edition (2023), which adopts NFPA 1 Chapter 11.12 (solar photovoltaic systems) with its ridge setback and access-pathway requirements, applies by state adoption. Enforcement sits with Flagler County Fire Rescue, not with the City. The City's permit application does carry 'Fire Review Needed: ___Yes ___No' and 'Fire Review Completed' boxes, and LDC Sec. 6-62(b) says 'No building permit or occupational license shall be issued prior to the approval of the fire safety inspector' — but the post of City fire safety inspector that Sec. 6-63 creates no longer exists. 72% · permit application + codified land development code

Which rapid-shutdown rule applies follows directly from the NEC edition in force, and the initiation device has to be at a location the fire service can reach and identify. This is inspected, and it is labelled.

• Is rapid shutdown required, and to which NEC edition? Yes — NEC 2020 Article 690.12 rapid shutdown, applied through the FBC 8th Edition (2023). No Bunnell or Flagler County document mentions rapid shutdown, adds to it, or exempts anything from it. 88% · county department page + code edition in force

The NEC sets a baseline for permanent markings at the service equipment and the disconnecting means. On top of that, an authority may specify its own wording, and the utility may specify more again. Where any of them writes its own text, a generic off-the-shelf label set will not pass — this is the detail most often fixed on a return visit.

• Which placards does this authority require at the service equipment? None of the City's own. The placards that actually go on a Bunnell job come from two places: NEC 2020 (690.13(B) disconnect marking, 690.56(C) rapid-shutdown label, 705.10 directory, 705.12(B)(3) busbar marking) and FPL — see q42. The City's Code, LDC and 1,996-document library contain no placard, label or sign specification for a PV system. 85% · enumerated document library + code editions in force
• Does the authority specify placard wording of its own? No. Bunnell specifies no placard wording of its own. 88% · enumerated document library + codified land development code
• Does it specify letter height, colour or material? No local specification of letter height, colour or material. The only material specification that reaches a Bunnell job is FPL's: a 'permanent weather-proof plaque' adjacent to the meter socket where a disconnect has been relocated, and a placard 'permanently affixed to the meter enclosure' for battery storage. For Tier 2 and Tier 3 systems FPL approves the verbiage itself — 'Please contact FPL for approval of a remote switch location and the verbiage or the location of the sign prior to the final design.' NEC 690.56(C) and 110.21(B) supply the durability standard. 82% · utility tariff + utility guidelines
• Is a site plan / facility map placard required, and what must it show? No local rule. NEC 2020 705.10 (directory of all electric power sources at each service equipment location) and 690.56(C) apply through the FBC. Bunnell requires no site plan or facility map placard of its own. 70% · code edition in force + enumerated document library
• Does the UTILITY specify placards beyond the AHJ's? Yes — FPL's are the only utility-specific placards on a Bunnell job, and they are precise. (1) BATTERY: 'A placard must be permanently affixed to the meter enclosure stating "Battery storage utilized in this facility."' That requirement is not tier-scoped and not conditioned on a disconnect, so it reaches a Tier 1 PV-plus-storage job that needs no disconnect at all. (2) RELOCATED DISCONNECT: Tier 1 agreement Sec. 5.3 — where FPL agrees the switch cannot sit adjacent to the meter socket, 'the customer shall install a permanent weather-proof plaque adjacent to FPL's meter socket indicating the location of the manual disconnect switch or switches.' (3) TIER 2/3: a sign at the meter noting the disconnect location, plus 'a warning sign indicating that both sides of the switch may be energized', with FPL approving the verbiage before final design. 92% · utility interconnection guidelines + tariff agreement
• Where must the labels be placed? At the FPL meter: the battery placard goes on the meter enclosure itself; the disconnect-location plaque goes adjacent to FPL's meter socket. NEC labels go at the service equipment, the PV disconnect and the point of interconnection per 690.13(B), 690.56(C) and 705.10. Bunnell adds no placement rule of its own. 88% · utility interconnection guidelines

Where the AC disconnect must sit relative to the meter is usually the utility's rule, not the building department's. Battery storage frequently carries its own permit, its own inspection and its own fire conditions.

• Where must the AC disconnect be, relative to the meter? For a normal Tier 1 job: NO manual AC disconnect at all. FPL Tier 1 agreement Sec. 5.1 — 'U.L.1741 Listed, inverter-based Tier 1 customer-owned renewable generation systems do not require a customer-installed manual disconnect switch.' Where one IS required (a non-UL1741 Tier 1 system, or any Tier 2/3 system) Sec. 5.2 puts it of the visible load break type, 'mounted separate from, but adjacent to, the FPL meter socket', readily accessible to FPL and lockable open with a single FPL padlock. If FPL agrees that adjacency is impractical, Sec. 5.3 relocates it by agreement and requires a permanent weather-proof plaque at the meter socket giving its location. FPL also forbids the tap point that usually drives the disconnect question: 'Interconnections with the utility transformer or in the meter can are not permitted.' Bunnell imposes no disconnect rule of its own, but LDC Sec. 6-34(2) 101.4-101.5 dictate the raceway for any service conductors run in the process. 93% · utility tariff agreement
• Must equipment be on a specific approved list? Partly. Two lists bite. (1) FLORIDA PRODUCT APPROVAL: the City collects a 'Bunnell Product Approval Specification Sheet' under FS 553.842, with categories Exterior Doors, Windows, Panel Wall, Roofing Products, Shutters, Skylights and Structural Components (wood connector/anchor, truss plates). PV modules are not a category; roof attachments and any re-roof under the array are. (2) UTILITY LISTING: FPL requires the generation to be 'tested and listed ... for continuous interactive operation with an electric distribution system in compliance with the applicable codes and standards of IEEE 1547, IEEE 1547.1, and UL 1741', and battery equipment to carry NRTL certification to the current UL 1741 standard. 80% · city product approval form + utility tariff
• Are batteries permitted, and under what conditions? Permitted, with nothing local governing them. 'Energy storage' is ZERO hits in the City's Code of Ordinances, its Land Development Code and the Flagler County Code; there is no NFPA 855 reference, no R328 amendment, and no ESS siting or separation rule anywhere. The applicable rules are FBC-Residential R328 / NFPA 855 through the FFPC 8th Edition, NEC 2020 Article 706, and FPL's policy: NRTL certification to UL 1741 (or DC-coupled behind a UL 1741 listed device), the meter-enclosure placard, and no export of stored energy to the grid. A battery installed WITHOUT generation and used only as emergency backup needs no interconnection agreement. 75% · utility guidelines + proved code absence
• Is there a separate ESS permit or inspection? No separate ESS permit or inspection is published. Storage would go on the same Electric/Plumbing/Gas/Solar/Irrigation/Utility packet. FS 553.791(1)(r) treats 'solar energy and energy storage installations or alterations' as single-trade work, which is the statutory framing Bunnell has not contradicted. 65% · Florida Statute + proved absence
• Is a ground mount treated as a structure? Yes — as an accessory structure. LDC Sec. 34-111(b)(1) permits in R-1 'Single-family dwellings, including modular homes, and any customary single-family accessory buildings', and Sec. 34-3(4) allows 'not more than one main building and its customary accessory buildings on a lot'. In R-1 that means: front yard 25 ft, side yard 10 ft, detached accessory rear yard 10 ft (20 ft if attached or if 10 ft cannot be kept between buildings), maximum height 35 ft, and dwellings plus accessory buildings capped at 50% lot coverage on a minimum 10,000 sq ft lot. A ROOFTOP array is not caught: Sec. 34-181(2)(d) exempts from the height limits 'other similar and necessary mechanical appurtenances pertaining to and necessary to the permitted uses of the districts in which they are located, provided that they are not used for human occupancy'. 70% · codified land development code
• Is there a local rule on service upgrades or busbar sizing? Yes — several, and one of them can bite a PV job hard. LDC Sec. 6-34(2): 101.1 'New single-family dwellings: A minimum of 150-amp, three-wire service shall be provided. *** Each single-family dwelling unit shall be provided with a MAXIMUM OF ONE UTILITY METER. ***' 101.4 all overhead service wires 'shall be installed in rigid metal conduit, intermediate metal conduit or polyvinyl chloride (PVC) Schedule 40 from the service head to the service equipment'. 101.5 service heads through the roof shall be in rigid metal conduit, minimum two-inch, braced or guyed if they exceed three feet. Sec. 6-34(5): 104.4 'Aluminum cable and wire shall not be used except sizes No. 1 and larger', with an approved inhibitor at every aluminium termination; 104.11 'All panels shall have one double-pole spare space' with a one-inch or larger empty raceway to an accessible area; 104.3 all conduit below grade or in contact with earth to be rigid metal or approved rigid nonmetallic. 90% · codified land development code
• Is a specific mounting system or attachment spacing required? No local mounting or attachment-spacing rule. FBC structural provisions and the module/racking manufacturer's installation instructions govern. The City's Product Affidavit makes the instructions enforceable at inspection: 'Approved copy of the applicable manufacturer's installation requirements shall be on the jobsite at time of inspection', and 'any installed products may have to be removed if approval cannot be demonstrated during inspection'. The Product Approval sheet's 'STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS — Wood Connector/anchor' category is the line a PV roof attachment reads onto. 72% · city product approval form

Booking is a portal, a phone call or an email depending on the authority, and the notice required is rarely zero. Book before the work is finished rather than after — the lead time, not the work, is usually what sets the date.

• How is an inspection booked? Phone or email to the Building Division — 386-437-7516 or CommDev@BunnellCity.us. The Building Division page states 'All inspections must be requested in advance by phone or email through the Building Division.' The GeoCivix portal separately offers a 'Schedule an Inspection' route; the department page does not mention it. 85% · department page
• How much notice is required? 'In advance' — the City publishes no number of days or hours. What it does publish is the week: 'Residential inspections: Monday-Thursday. Commercial inspections: scheduled weekly.' So a residential final booked on a Thursday will not be seen until the following Monday at the earliest. 72% · department page
• Are same-day or AM/PM windows offered? Not published. No AM/PM window, no same-day service and no cut-off time appears in any City document. The only scheduling constraint published is the Monday-Thursday residential window. 70% · department page + enumerated document library

Some authorities inspect their own solar work; some delegate it, and a few do not inspect the PV equipment itself at all. Who is coming determines what they will look at.

• Does this AHJ perform its own final solar inspection? Yes. The City performs its own inspections, at volume. Its FS 553.80(7)(b) Building Permit and Inspection Utilization Report for FY2023-24 records 2,372 building inspections and reinspections requested and 2,372 conducted, of which the number 'conducted by a private provider' was ZERO, with 2 personnel dedicated to enforcing the Florida Building Code. 94% · FS 553.80(7)(b) utilization report
• If delegated, to whom? Not delegated to another government — but the City's Building Official is not a City employee. The Building Division's staff listing names Judson Dulany as 'Building Official / Certified Floodplain Manager' at judson.dulany@bureauveritas.com, and the permitting portal the City links is CAP Government's GeoCivix instance. So Bunnell runs a City building division whose code official and portal are supplied by private firms. Separately, FS 553.791 lets an owner take plan review and inspections to a registered private provider; Bunnell has no private-provider policy of any kind. 80% · department page staff listing

A rough-in or mid-roof inspection, where one is required, has to happen before the work it covers is closed up. Missing a stage means opening something back up, and it is the most expensive kind of correction.

• Which inspections are required, and in what order? Not published for a PV or trade permit. The only sequencing the City publishes anywhere is implied by the fee resolution's renewal ladder for new construction — 'No inspections performed 100% / After slab inspection 60% / After framing inspection 40% / Before Final Inspection 20%' — which evidences slab, framing and final stages. Every permit packet ends with the same instruction in capitals: 'APPLICANT MUST OBTAIN ALL REQUIRED INSPECTIONS INCLUDING THE FINAL INSPECTION.' For a rooftop PV job, expect a single electrical final. 60% · fee resolution + permit packets

The approved plan set, the permit, and the equipment listings should be on site and reachable. Inspectors routinely verify that installed equipment matches what was approved, and that the labels are the ones the plan set promised.

• Is there a published inspection checklist? No. Bunnell publishes submittal checklists, not inspection checklists. Of 1,996 named documents in the City's DocumentCenter, NOT ONE carries 'checklist' or 'inspect' in its title; the twelve permit packets are internally headed 'Permit Checklist' and list what to file, never what an inspector looks for. The Building Division Resources page contains no City-authored document at all — every item on it is an outbound link to ICC, FEMA, DBPR, Sunbiz, the BBB, the Property Appraiser, the health department, SJRWMD, FDEP, FDOT or the Flagler County Building Department. 85% · enumerated document library + department resources page
• What must be on site at inspection? The permit itself, on site, before work starts — 'Work on a project may not legally begin before a permit is obtained and on the work site.' A Notice of Commencement, recorded and certified by the Flagler County Clerk of Court, where labour and materials exceed $2,500; its own warning text says 'A NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT MUST BE RECORDED AND POSTED ON THE JOB SITE BEFORE THE FIRST INSPECTION.' Plus, per the Product Affidavit, sealed plans, product-approval information and an approved copy of the manufacturer's installation requirements, all available to the inspector at the time of inspection. 85% · permit packet + product affidavit + city FAQ
• Does the inspector verify labels and listings? Listings and product approvals: yes, explicitly and with teeth. The City's Product Affidavit, which the applicant signs, says 'I understand that information and approval numbers of the building components will be required to be available to the building inspector on the jobsite at time of inspection', lists sealed plans, performance characteristics, product approval information and the manufacturer's installation requirements, and warns 'any installed products may have to be removed if approval cannot be demonstrated during inspection.' Electrical PLACARDS: nothing published either way — verification of NEC labels rests on the inspector applying NEC 2020, not on a City instruction. 72% · city product affidavit

Passing gives you a final or an equivalent sign-off. That is not the same as permission to operate: PTO comes from the utility, and who tells the utility the inspection passed varies. A system left switched off for weeks is usually waiting on this handover.

• What is issued on pass? A certificate of occupancy or a certificate of completion — the fee resolution names both as the things withheld until re-inspection fees are paid. A rooftop PV retrofit on an existing dwelling takes the certificate of completion / approved final, not a CO. There is no 'green tag' terminology in any Bunnell document. 78% · adopted fee resolution
• Who notifies the utility for PTO? The installer or customer notifies FPL — the City does not. FPL: 'Once construction is complete, a customer should provide a copy of the approved permit or a screen print from the local authority's website indicating the permit has been approved', showing the electrical and mechanical inspection signed off by the local inspector, the description of work, the address, the permit number and the building department name. Tier 1 agreement Sec. 3.5 adds a duty to notify FPL at least ten calendar days before first placing the equipment in service. Operating before the bi-directional meter is fitted is 'strictly prohibited'. 90% · utility guidelines + tariff + city form
• Is there a re-inspection fee? Yes, and it escalates by type: $40 for the first re-inspection of the same type, $50 for a second of the same type, $60 for a third or any subsequent one. 'All re inspection fees must be paid prior to either a certificate of occupancy or certificate of completion being issued. At no time will a building permit be closed out until all re inspection fees have been paid.' 92% · adopted fee resolution