Town of Eatonville

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 Town of Eatonville is the AHJ for building AND electrical permitting inside its town limits, and it permits in its own name. It publishes its own two-page Building Permit Application (updated 14 Dec 2022) on Town letterhead, its own Building Permit Fee Schedule (updated 23 Jul 2014), and its FY2026-27 budget carries a building-permit revenue account (001-322-0000 BUILDING PERMITS, $166,110 proposed) plus SURCHARGES - BUILDING PERMIT, 5% EDUCATION FEE BLDG PERMIT and RE-INSPECTION FEES accounts. The plan-review, inspection and BUILDING OFFICIAL functions are contracted to a private firm, UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES (UES) - the Town remains the legal AHJ. FIRE is bought from ORANGE COUNTY. Orange County's own 'Do I need a permit' page names only the City of Edgewood and the Ranger Drainage District as municipalities whose projects come through the County; Eatonville is not named. 95% · town permit application (Department Approvals table)
• What does this authority permit itself, and what does it delegate? Both, in the Town's own name, with everything technical bought in. The Town issues building permits and electrical/plumbing/mechanical/gas/fire sub-permits under a Master Permit, sets and keeps the fees, and runs zoning, historic-district review, floodplain administration, code enforcement and water/sewer. PLAN REVIEW, INSPECTIONS and the BUILDING OFFICIAL are contracted to Universal Engineering Sciences. PLANNING is a 'Consultant Planner' and ENGINEERING a 'Consultant' on the same approvals table. FIRE is Orange County (budget line 001-0522-522-3400 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES (FIRE) $837,249 for FY2027; the Town's whole fire chapter, Ch. 41, is Orange County's fire ordinance reproduced verbatim, still saying 'the board of county commissioners does hereby adopt' and 'within unincorporated Orange County'). Contractor LICENSING is state (DBPR) with a Town Local Business Tax Receipt on top. 92% · adopted budget worksheets + permit application
• Is a permit required for a residential rooftop PV system? Yes. LDC sec. 44-283: 'No building or structure shall be erected and no existing building shall be removed, altered, added to, or enlarged until a permit has been issued by the planning director.' LDC sec. 42-4 defines 'structure' as 'anything constructed, installed, or portable, the use of which requires a location on or attachment to a parcel of land', so both a roof-mounted array (attachment) and a ground mount are caught. Code ch. 10 sec. 10-1 adopts the state building code, and FS 553.79(1)(a) makes it unlawful to alter a building without a permit. The Town publishes NO solar-specific permit, checklist or handout of any kind. 92% · codified Land Development Code sec. 44-283
• Is there a separate electrical permit, or is it combined? Separate, as a SUB-PERMIT under a MASTER PERMIT. The Town's application form is headed 'MASTER PERMIT # ____ PERMIT # ____' and carries a SUBCONTRACTOR block with separate rows for Gas, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical and Fire Sprinkler/Fire Alarm. The Building Permit Procedure handout sets out a separate 'Process for Trade Permits' with its own numbered process for Electrical Permits, and notes 'Electrical sub permit N.O.C is covered under the Master Permit.' The fee schedule prices 'Electrical permit fees' separately from the building permit. 88% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout
• Is a HOA or architectural approval required first? No - not by the Town. 'Association' appears 27 times across the whole Land Development Code and NOT ONE of them couples an association to an approval; there is no architectural review board, no design review committee and no 'certificate of appropriateness' outside the historic chapter. Private deed restrictions are separately preempted by FS 163.04(2), which bars any binding agreement from prohibiting solar collectors and confines an association to specifying location on the roof within 45 degrees of due south where that does not impair operation. NOTE: the DC/HO Downtown Cultural/Historical Overlay (LDC ch. 64 art. III div. 10) does impose appearance standards, but it is scoped to 'development and redevelopment in the downtown central business district', requires UNIFIED OWNERSHIP of the whole site and a written development agreement - it is a project-scale overlay, not a homeowner gate. There is also no second, non-historic appearance layer reaching a house: the only architectural-compatibility sentence in the whole Land Development Code ('Architectural design and exterior finishes of accessory structures shall be consistent and compatible with the principal building') sits inside LDC sec. 65-5(a)(1)f, the ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT subsection, and is scoped to ADUs. 'Architectural review', 'design review', 'visually compatible' and 'visible from the street' return nothing outside the historic chapter and the DC/HO overlay. 88% · codified LDC (enumerated 'association' hits) + FS 163.04(2)
• Is there a historic-district review? YES - inside the Eatonville Historic District, and it is a real, locally adopted regime, not bare National Register listing. LOCAL: Comprehensive Plan Policy 1.5.4 speaks of 'the ADOPTED Eatonville Historic District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places' and applies 'The Eatonville Historic District Design Guidelines, ADOPTED PURSUANT TO ORDINANCE 2002-4'; Policy 1.5.5 says 'The Town of Eatonville Historic Preservation District, ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE #96-04, is hereby adopted into the 2018-2038 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map series', and the FLUM series carries a 'Town of Eatonville Historic District Map' sheet. LDC ch. 48 creates a LOCAL REGISTER of historic places (sec. 48-25) and sec. 48-29(3) provides 'No demolition, alteration, relocation or construction activities may take place on designated historic properties or within the boundaries of designated historic districts except as provided in article III'. Article III requires a CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS for, among other things, '(1) Any material change or alteration in the exterior appearance of existing buildings, objects or structures' and '(4) Any new construction of principal or accessory buildings or structures'. Sec. 48-47(d): 'A certificate of appropriateness shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of any other permits required by law ... A building permit or other municipal permit shall be INVALID if it is obtained without a certificate of appropriateness required for the proposed work.' The Historic Preservation Board is live: it met on the first Thursday of the month at 6:00 pm in every month of 2026 except September (one cancellation in twelve). OUTSIDE the district there is no historic gate. THE PROCESS, which is what a quote turns on: file the application and supporting documents with the PLANNING DIRECTOR, after a mandatory pre-application conference with him (sec. 48-49(2)); no number of copies and no filing deadline in days is specified. The planning director places it on 'the next regularly scheduled meeting' of the board. NOTICE is 'no less than seven days, but not more than 30 days' before the meeting: written notice to the applicant, plus either a newspaper advertisement OR a sign posted on the property 'at least 22 inches by 28 inches in size ... within ten feet of the right-of-way and ... visible from the right-of-way', one per 200 feet of road frontage. THE BOARD DECIDES - it does not merely recommend (sec. 48-182(a)(8), 'Approve or deny petitions for certificates of appropriateness'; sec. 48-49(5), 'The decision of the historic preservation board shall be made at the hearing'). An appeal lies to the TOWN COUNCIL (sec. 48-49(9)). A refusal binds the permit issuer absolutely (sec. 48-47(d)). THERE IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE PATH, but it will not help a PV array: sec. 48-47(c)(2) lets the planning director issue the certificate only where the work 'will result in the ORIGINAL APPEARANCE' as defined in sec. 48-1, and an array that was not there in 1882-1946 cannot. Sec. 48-472 adds a separate, gentler limb for houses - 'Minor repairs and rehabilitation of existing single-family residential structures which do not significantly change the character of the structure may be granted on a case-by-case basis after review and approval by planning director AND the historic preservation board' - still both, but framed as a case-by-case grant rather than a full COA hearing. THE FEE IS NOT PUBLISHED: the Building Permit Fee Schedule has no certificate-of-appropriateness line and no historic line at all except demolition ('$50.00 without utilities / $100.00 with utilities - *This fee includes Historical Structures (1923-1953)'), and code secs. 10-5 and 42-9 say all fees 'shall be set by resolution of the town council and are on file in the town clerk's office'. THE DESIGN GUIDELINES THEMSELVES ARE NOT PUBLISHED EITHER - sec. 48-522 adopts them with 'a copy of which is attached to this article and can be found on file in the office of the town clerk', and sec. 48-500 does the same for the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and the state guidelines. CADENCE: sec. 48-154 requires only four meetings a year, but in practice the board met on the first Thursday of every month of 2026 at 6:00 pm except September (one cancellation in twelve), so a filing lands within about five weeks. 90% · LDC ch. 48 + Comprehensive Plan Policies 1.5.4/1.5.5
• Is a wind or windstorm certification required? No separate wind or windstorm certification is required, and Eatonville is NOT in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (that is Miami-Dade and Broward only). What is required is FLORIDA PRODUCT APPROVAL: the Town publishes its own Product Approval Form - printed on Universal Engineering Sciences letterhead - citing 'Florida Statue 553.842 and Florida Administrative Code 9B-72m', demanding the FloridaBuilding.org screen showing the PA number and code edition and the manufacturer's installation details for each product, 'turned in with permit application and available onsite for inspections'. The form's product categories are exterior doors, windows, structural components (wood connectors, wood anchors, truss plates, insulation forms, lintels, other), wall panels, roofing products and 'OTHER' - solar racking is not a named category and would be entered under structural components/other. 'windstorm' appears once in the whole code, in a tree-ordinance emergency-waiver clause. 85% · Town of Eatonville Product Approval Form (UES letterhead)
• Is a Specific Use Permit or Council approval ever required? Yes, potentially two - and one of them is a prohibition rather than a permit. (1) ZONING: LDC Table 65-4(b) 'Accessory Uses and Structures' (Ord. No. 2025-1, adopted 18 February 2025) lists 'Solar energy collection facility, small-scale' with a 'P' in the I-1 Planned Industrial column ONLY, and BLANK cells in R-1, R-2, R-3, C-1, C-2, C-3, HD/MX/OFF and DT HIST CULT. The table's own legend says 'A blank cell under a base or the planned development zoning district column indicates that the accessory use or structure is PROHIBITED in the zoning district', and there is no 'SE' special-exception cell either. Read literally, the Town's brand-new use table prohibits accessory solar in every residential district with no special-exception route. THAT PROVISION IS PREEMPTED: FS 163.04(1), read first-hand today, provides that 'the adoption of an ordinance by a governing body ... which prohibits or HAS THE EFFECT OF PROHIBITING the installation of solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED', and FS 163.04(3) awards costs and fees to the prevailing party. (2) HISTORIC: inside the district a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Board is required for work that will not restore the original appearance, with an appeal to the Town Council (sec. 48-49(9)). 88% · LDC Table 65-4(b) (Ord. 2025-1) + FS 163.04(1)
• Is there a system-size cap on residential generation? No local cap on system size. The binding limits are the utility's: Duke Energy Florida Tier 1 covers systems of 10 kW or less with 'a total capacity ... not exceed[ing] 90% of the rating of service currently provided to the customer (based on service size, transformer rating, etc.)'; above 10 kW the customer falls into Tier 2. FOR A GROUND MOUNT there is an indirect local cap: LDC sec. 60-114(2) allows an accessory structure to extend into the required rear yard only if 'it shall not occupy more than 15 PERCENT of the rear yard' and 'shall not exceed 12 FEET in height'. On a minimum R-1 lot (75 ft wide, 20 ft rear yard = 1,500 sq ft of rear yard) that is about 225 sq ft of footprint - roughly 11-12 modules, about 4.5-5 kW DC - and less if a shed is already there. Sec. 60-47 also counts accessory structures toward the district's maximum building coverage (35% in R-1, 40% in R-2). 85% · LDC sec. 60-114 + Duke Tier 1 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 state-certified or state-registered electrical contractor (EC/ER), or a certified solar contractor (CVC) for the array with an electrical contractor for the interconnection, or the property owner under the FS 489.103(7) owner-builder exemption. The application must be signed by the licensed contractor personally, or by an agent holding a NOTARISED POWER OF ATTORNEY (the Town publishes its own Power of Attorney form). The checklist requires 'Copy of Contractor's License: Certified or Registered', general liability, workers' compensation or a state exemption certificate, and a Town Local Business Tax Receipt. 85% · Town Permit Application Checklist & Requirements
• Must the contractor be registered with this authority before applying? Yes. A Town of Eatonville LOCAL BUSINESS TAX RECEIPT is required and must be handed over when the permit is dropped off. Code sec. 36-74 prices it: Contractors - 'b. Electrical $100.00', 'n. All other not specified herein $100.00', and the schedule adds '**All contractors as listed above shall furnish a $5,000.00 surety bond and proof of required insurance.' There is no solar line in the 124,509-character tax schedule ('solar' = 0). Sec. 36-66 makes issuance conditional on planner approval and a fire-inspector life-safety inspection of the business location. 92% · codified Code sec. 36-74 + Town checklist
• Is a homeowner permitted to self-install and self-permit? Yes in principle. The Town publishes an 'Owner Builder Disclosure Form' and an 'Owner Builder Statement', and the checklist line is 'Owner Builder Statement for work by owner'. The statutory basis is FS 489.103(7)(a)1, which exempts owners improving 'one-family or two-family residences' for their own occupancy with NO dollar cap (the $75,000 cap in that subparagraph applies only to commercial buildings). FS 489.103(7)(a)3, the solar-specific owner-builder limb, is conditional on the local government participating in a 'US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative: Rooftop Solar Challenge' grant and is a dead letter here. NOTE the practical bar: the Town's checklist requires plans signed and sealed by a Florida architect or engineer for ALL residential work, which an owner-builder must still buy. 80% · Town owner-builder form + FS 489.103(7)

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? From the Town's Permit Application Checklist & Requirements (rev. 20 Oct 2023): copy of contractor's licence (certified or registered); copy of general liability insurance; copy of workers' compensation insurance or state exemption certificate; Local Business Tax Receipt; FOUR sets of plans signed and sealed by a Florida-licensed architect or engineer for commercial, industrial and NEW residential; THREE sets of sealed plans for residential; THREE copies of a survey or approved site plan; PROOF OF VALUATION (copy of contract or notarised statement); complete and signed Building Application; three sets of energy calculations where applicable; Notice of Commencement for work over $2,500 (HVAC $7,000), recorded at Orange County; letter of permission from the owner; Owner Builder Statement for owner work; three sets of the truss packet (roof); ROOF MATERIAL PRODUCT APPROVAL; Manual J for mechanical. Plus the Town's Product Approval Form (on UES letterhead), with the FloridaBuilding.org screen and manufacturer's installation details for each product. 92% · Town Permit Application Checklist & Requirements
• How many copies, and in what format? THREE sets of signed and sealed plans for residential work (four for commercial/industrial/new residential), THREE copies of a survey or approved site plan, THREE sets of energy calculations, THREE sets of the truss packet. LDC sec. 44-285 independently requires 'the required fee and three copies of a layout or plot plan drawn to scale'. Format is PAPER, dropped off at Town Hall, 307 E Kennedy Blvd; sec. 44-286(d) requires permits to be issued in duplicate. Payment on collection is CASH OR CHEQUE ONLY ('Cash or Check (Town of Eatonville) is the form of payment for the pick up of any permit'). 90% · Town checklist + LDC sec. 44-285
• Is a site plan required, and what must it show? Yes. THREE copies of a survey or approved site plan are on the checklist, and LDC sec. 44-285 says the plot plan must be 'drawn to scale showing the actual dimensions of the lot to be built upon, the exact size and location on the lot of the building and structures to be erected, and all other information necessary for the planning director to make a determination that the proposed development is in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and all applicable building codes'. The application also demands the IMPERVIOUS SURFACE RATIO where square footage is added, and the 'Square footage of work area (for Florida State surcharges)'. For a ground mount the site plan must show the accessory-structure setbacks of sec. 60-114. 90% · LDC sec. 44-285 + Town checklist
• Is a one-line / three-line diagram required? Not required by any published Town document. The Town publishes no electrical submittal checklist and no solar checklist; the only drawing requirement is 'three sets of plans signed and sealed by a licensed Architect or Engineer'. A one-line will in practice be expected by the contracted plans examiner (Universal Engineering Sciences), but no Town instrument names it. 72% · Town checklist (enumerated document set)
• Are string and conductor calculations required? Not required by any published Town document. Three sets of ENERGY CALCULATIONS are required 'for all new construction, alteration, or additions (when applicable)' - that is the Florida Energy Conservation Code compliance calculation, not a PV string or conductor calculation. No string, voltage-drop, ampacity or conductor calculation is named anywhere in the Town's published set. 72% · Town checklist
• Is a structural PE stamp required, and at what threshold? YES, and it is UNCONDITIONAL - there is no threshold and no residential exemption. The checklist: 'Three (3) sets of plans signed and sealed by a licensed Architect or Engineer in the state of Florida for Residential'. The Building Permit Procedure handout, item 5: 'Construction plans must be signed and sealed by a Licensed State of Florida Architect or Engineer.' Neither document carves out small alterations, sub-permits or trade work. On its face a rooftop PV attachment detail must be sealed by a Florida PE or RA. The Product Approval Form separately requires manufacturer's installation details for structural components. 90% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout item 5
• Is an electrical PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No separate electrical PE threshold is published. The same blanket sentence ('Construction plans must be signed and sealed by a Licensed State of Florida Architect or Engineer') is the only stamp rule the Town publishes, and it does not distinguish disciplines. The state floor is FS 471.003(2)(h), which exempts electrical work below the statutory threshold from the engineer-seal requirement. Note the contrast with Orange County, which accepts FSEC (Florida Solar Energy Center) certification of plans 'in lieu of' a Florida-licensed engineer - Eatonville has no such alternative ('FSEC' = 0 in the whole codified corpus and in every published Town document). 75% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout

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? Two portals are named and the one the Town advertises is DEAD. The Town's 'Online Permitting Portal' page says 'Trying to submit a building permit or Business Tax License? Please click the link below!' and gives https://www7.citizenserve.com/eatonville - which returns a CitizenServe 404 page ('Wrong URL. Please contact your system administrator.'). The working portal is the OPERATOR'S: the current Permit Application Checklist ends 'The portal you must go to schedule inspections has also been pasted below ... http://gadget.teamues.com/citizenportal/' - Universal Engineering Sciences' CitizenPortal. Inspections are otherwise booked by email to bidscheduling@universalengineering.com or by phone on 407-623-8904. 85% · Town Online Permitting Portal page
• Can the whole application be completed online? No. The published process is a paper drop-off: 'Applicant(s) submit application(s) with (3) sets of plans and all supporting documents/correspondence', contractor documents handed in 'when permit is dropped off', 'Applicant(s) will be called by the permit coordinator when a permit is ready for pick up', and 'Cash or Check (Town of Eatonville) is the form of payment for the pick up of any permit.' No card payment, no e-signature, no upload route is described. This is also on the wrong side of FS 553.79(1)(b), which requires that completed applications including payments and attachments 'must be able to be submitted electronically'. 85% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout
• What does a residential solar permit cost? Roughly $415 on a $25,000 residential rooftop PV job, but the schedule does not permit a single certain total. Components from the Town of Eatonville BUILDING PERMIT FEE SCHEDULE (updated 23 July 2014, four pages, scanned - it extracts as FOUR CHARACTERS and had to be rendered at 300 dpi): ELECTRICAL PERMIT, contract value over $1,000 = '$50.00 base plus $6.00 per $1000' => $50 + 25 x $6 = $200. PLAN REVIEW = '50% of the Building permit fee', with the note 'All type of construction is subject to Plan Review fees (Bldg, Plumbing, Electrical, Mechanical, Fire)' => about $100. EDUCATION FEE = '5% of permit' => about $10 (the budget carries account 001-363-2000 '5% EDUCATION FEE BLDG PERMIT'). INSPECTION = '$50.00 per inspection', billed on its own line of the application (two inspections => $100). STATE SURCHARGE: a 'Surcharge' box exists on the application and a revenue account 001-329-0002 'SURCHARGES - BUILDING PERMIT' exists in the budget, but NO RATE, MINIMUM OR STATUTE IS PUBLISHED ANYWHERE; the statutory figure is 2.5% (FS 553.721 1% + FS 468.631 1.5%) with a $4 combined minimum, about $5 here. Impact fees do not apply: LDC sec. 43-22(2) exempts an accessory structure that creates no additional impact on capital facilities. 80% · Town Building Permit Fee Schedule (rendered from scan)
• How is the fee calculated? Valuation - specifically CONTRACT VALUE. Building Permit Residential is '$50.00 minimum plus $5.00 per $1,000 of contact [contract] valuation thereof'; Electrical, Plumbing and Mechanical are all 'Contract value under $1000.00 = $50.00 / Contract value over $1000.00 = $50.00 base plus $6.00 per $1000'. The application has a 'Valuation of Work (Estimated Cost)' box and the checklist demands 'Proof of valuation (copy of contract or notarized statement)'. 90% · Town Building Permit Fee Schedule
• Is there a separate plan-check fee? Yes - 50% of the building permit fee, and it applies to every trade. Fee schedule I.D: 'Plan Review - 50% of the Building permit fee. All type of construction is subject to Plan Review fees (Bldg, Plumbing, Electrical, Mechanical, Fire)'. Fee schedule IV.E adds 'Canceled Permits are subject to Plan Review Fees' - the review charge survives cancellation. There is NO private-provider reduction published: FS 553.791(2)(b) requires the local jurisdiction to reduce the permit fee by its cost saving and says it 'may not charge fees for building inspections if the fee owner or contractor hires a private provider', and no Town document acknowledges that. 88% · Town Building Permit Fee Schedule I.D

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? Not published locally - the Town states no turnaround anywhere. The binding clock is FS 553.792(1)(a)1 as amended by ch. 2024-191: for an ELECTRICAL permit (or residential unit, accessory structure, alarm, irrigation, landscaping, mechanical, plumbing or roofing permit) on a structure of LESS THAN 7,500 SQUARE FEET, a local government must approve, approve with conditions or deny within 30 BUSINESS DAYS of a complete and sufficient application. 60 business days at 7,500 sq ft or more. The trigger is square footage; declared valuation no longer sets the clock at all. FS 553.792(1)(c): the Town must say within 5 business days what is missing or the application is automatically deemed complete. FS 553.792(1)(e): 10% off the permit fee for each business day it is late; (1)(g): 20% per business day after revisions. FASTER ROUTE: FS 553.791(7)(a) - where a private provider does a SINGLE-TRADE plans review for a one- or two-family dwelling (and FS 553.791(1)(q) names 'solar energy and energy storage installations or alterations' as single-trade in terms), the building official has 5 BUSINESS DAYS to issue or state the deficiencies, failing which 'the permit application must be deemed approved as a matter of law'. 85% · Florida Statutes 553.792 (2025)
• How long is an issued permit valid before it expires? One year, with a 90-day start rule. LDC sec. 44-288: '(a) Work ... shall be started within 90 days of the issuance of said permit or said permit shall expire and be cancelled by the planning director ... (c) All building permits are, subject to the start of work provisions above, valid for a period of one year from the date of issuance.' FS 553.79(1)(c) (2025 text) separately allows - but does not require - a local government to send a written notice of expiration at least 30 days before a permit expires. 92% · LDC sec. 44-288
• Which utility handles interconnection here? DUKE ENERGY FLORIDA, LLC. The codified franchise is Appendix A, Article II - 'ORDINANCE #99-07 ... GRANTING TO FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION A NON-EXCLUSIVE ELECTRIC UTILITY FRANCHISE', adopted 7 September 1999, 6% of base revenues, 30-year term (so to 2029). The codifier's own editor's note reads 'Printed herein is the electric with Florida Power Corporation, NOW PROGRESS ENERGY'. The succession is Florida Power Corporation -> Progress Energy Florida -> Duke Energy Florida: 'Florida Power' here is DUKE, not FPL. Corroborated on the money: FY2027 budget revenue 001-323-4000 FRANCHISE FEE - ELECTRIC $475,000 and 001-314-1000 UTILITY SVC. TAX - ELECTRICITY $513,086 - a non-zero electric franchise proves the Town is not itself the seller. 92% · codified Appendix A, Art. II - Electric Utility Franchise (Ord. 99-07)
• Where does the utility sit in the sequence? Parallel, with the AHJ's final inspection as an input to the utility, not the other way round. Duke Energy Florida's Standard Interconnection Agreement for Tier 1 Customer-Owned Renewable Generation Systems (10 kW or less), Section VII, Third Revised Sheet No. 7.310, effective 29 April 2013: paragraph 2 - no application fee; paragraph 7 - 'The Customer agrees to provide Local Building Code Official inspection and certification of installation. The certification shall reflect that the local code official has inspected and certified that the installation was permitted, has been approved, and has met all electrical and mechanical qualifications'; paragraph 12 - 'Prior to connection and parallel operation ... the Customer shall provide 10 days notice'. So: apply to Duke and to the Town in parallel, but PTO waits on the Town's (UES's) final. 90% · Duke Energy Florida Tier 1 Standard Interconnection Agreement

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? NEC 2020, by floating state adoption. Code sec. 10-1 adopts 'the state building code, including appendices thereto' with no edition named and no local electrical code of its own; the electrical volume of the Florida Building Code incorporates NFPA 70. floridabuilding.org states today that 'The Effective Date for the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), is December 31, 2023', and the 2026 update is still in Technical Advisory Committee (the Electrical TAC met in August 2026), so the 8th Edition and its NEC 2020 reference remain in force. BEWARE THE THREE 2023s: the FBC EDITION is labelled 2023, the 2020 NEC adoption took EFFECT on 31 December 2023, and neither makes the NEC edition 2023. 88% · Florida Building Commission (floridabuilding.org)
• Which building code edition is in force? Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), effective 31 December 2023, adopted locally by a floating reference. Code sec. 10-1: 'the state building code, including appendices thereto, is in effect in the town ... The building code is hereby adopted and incorporated and made a part of this Code as fully as if set out herein' (Ord. No. 2010-09, 4 May 2010). Because the adoption floats, the Town does not need to re-adopt each cycle and will pick up the 9th Edition automatically. For a rooftop array the operative volume is FBC-Residential, and section R324 is the rooftop-PV section. 92% · Code sec. 10-1 + floridabuilding.org
• Which fire code edition is in force? Florida Fire Prevention Code, 8th Edition (2023), by a floating adoption - and the enforcing body is ORANGE COUNTY. Code sec. 10-4: 'This section adopts and incorporates by reference the CURRENT EDITION as adopted by the state legislature of the state fire prevention code, including the appendices thereto, AND AS IT MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME' (Ord. No. 2010-10). *** The Town's whole fire chapter, Ch. 41 (Ord. No. 2018-5, 2 October 2018), is ORANGE COUNTY'S FIRE ORDINANCE REPRODUCED VERBATIM, with every noun left as the County's: 'This article is enacted under the home rule power of THE COUNTY'; 'the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS does hereby adopt'; 'shall determine the appropriate permits that shall be required WITHIN UNINCORPORATED ORANGE COUNTY'; 'the COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL'; cross-references to 'section 18-32' and 'section 11-33 of this Code' which are Orange County's section numbers, not Eatonville's. *** Imported with it: local augmentation 18.2.3.2.2, fire department access roads within 150 feet of any portion of an exterior wall of the first story; and 'NFPA 1, (2009 EDITION), Annex I' for hydrants - a fifteen-year-old edition reference sitting inside a floating adoption. 85% · Code ch. 41 (Ord. 2018-5) + sec. 10-4
• Are there local amendments to any of the above? No local technical amendments to the FBC, the NEC or the FFPC. The Town adopts all three by floating reference and amends none of them: there is no FBC amendment section anywhere in the Code (chapter 10 has five sections in total - building code adopted, drainage of lots, excavation and grading code adopted, fire prevention code adopted, and fees), no FBC section number is amended anywhere, and 'freeboard' and '553.' return zero. What the Town does add is LAND-USE layers on top: the ch. 48 historic Certificate of Appropriateness, the 2025 use tables that (unlawfully) prohibit accessory solar in residential districts, the sec. 60-114 accessory-structure rules and the ch. 46 floodplain ordinance. 85% · codified Code ch. 10 (enumerated)
• What is the installation judged against? Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) - Residential for a one- or two-family dwelling, with FBC-R R324 governing rooftop photovoltaic - plus the National Electrical Code 2020 as incorporated by the FBC electrical provisions, plus the Florida Fire Prevention Code 8th Edition (2023), plus Florida Product Approval under FS 553.842, plus the Town's own Land Development Code (zoning district dimensions, sec. 60-114 accessory-structure rules, ch. 46 floodplain, and ch. 48 historic COA inside the district). Plan review and inspection against all of it is performed by Universal Engineering Sciences on the Town's behalf. 85% · Code sec. 10-1/10-4 + LDC

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.

Nothing recorded for Town of Eatonville on this step yet — 1 question checked and found unpublished. The guidance above is general.

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 - rapid shutdown is required, by NEC 2020 Article 690.12 as adopted through the Florida Building Code, and to the 2020 edition (array-level, 1 ft/3 ft boundary, 80 V within 30 seconds inside the array boundary). There is NO local text: 'rapid shutdown' returns zero in the Town's entire codified corpus and in all 183 enumerated DocumentCenter documents, so nothing local adds to, subtracts from, or delays the NEC requirement. 85% · NEC 2020 via FBC 8th Ed. (2023); local absence enumerated

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 its own. The Town specifies no placards at the service equipment and no signage of any kind for PV: 'placard' appears twice in 3.73 MB (a parks anti-vandalism clause and a rezoning notice sign), 'label' twice, and 'rapid shutdown', 'energy storage', 'inverter' and 'photovoltaic' zero times. The placard set is therefore the NEC 2020 set as enforced by the contracted plans examiner and inspector - principally 690.13(B) disconnect marking, 690.56(B) and 705.10 directory/plant identification, 690.56(C) rapid-shutdown label, 705.12(B)(3) interconnection marking and 110.21(B) durability - and the utility adds none (see q42). 82% · codified Code (enumerated absence)
• Does the authority specify placard wording of its own? No. The Town specifies no placard wording of its own for photovoltaic systems or for anything else electrical. The only wording the Town prescribes anywhere is for a rezoning notice sign (sec. 44-213) and for the historic Certificate of Appropriateness, which 'must be conspicuously posted on the property where the work is to be performed' (sec. 48-49(10)). 88% · codified Code (enumerated absence)
• Does it specify letter height, colour or material? No. No letter height, colour, material, reflectivity or durability specification is published by the Town for any electrical or PV label. The governing requirements are NEC 2020 110.21(B) (permanent, suitable for the environment, not handwritten) and 690.56(C), which specifies capitalised white-on-red lettering of at least 3/8 inch for the rapid-shutdown label. The Town's own permit placard rule is about the PERMIT, not the system: sec. 44-286(d) requires one copy of the permit to be 'kept on the premises affected in a conspicuous location visible from the public right-of-way and protected from the weather whenever construction work is being performed'. 82% · codified Code (enumerated absence)
• Is a site plan / facility map placard required, and what must it show? No local requirement. Nothing in the Town's code or published forms requires a site plan, facility map or plant diagram placard at the service equipment. The requirement that will actually be enforced is NEC 2020 690.56(B)/705.10 - a permanent plaque or directory at the service disconnecting means showing the location of each power source and, for one- and two-family dwellings, the plaque or directory required by 705.10. Note that the Town separately requires three copies of a SURVEY OR SITE PLAN with the application, which is a submittal document, not a placard. 78% · codified Code (enumerated absence) + NEC 2020 705.10
• Does the UTILITY specify placards beyond the AHJ's? No. Duke Energy Florida's Tier 1 Standard Interconnection Agreement specifies NO placards, labels, markings or signage of any kind. All four pages were rendered at 300 dpi and OCR'd inside the working directory, and 'placard', 'label', 'signage' and 'marking' return ZERO across the whole document. What the agreement does require: paragraph 5, equipment listed to IEEE 1547, IEEE 1547.1 and UL 1741; paragraph 7, local building code official inspection and certification; paragraph 12, ten days' notice before parallel operation; paragraph 15, that if DUKE elects to install a manual disconnect switch it must be lockable in the open position with a single Company padlock. This is now the fourth independent confirmation in this survey that Duke's Tier 1 tariff carries no placard requirement. 88% · Duke Energy Florida Tier 1 tariff sheet 7.310-7.313
• Where must the labels be placed? Per the NEC, with nothing added locally. NEC 2020 690.13(B) at each PV system disconnecting means; 690.56(C) rapid-shutdown label 'on a label ... located no more than 3 ft from the service disconnecting means'; 690.56(B)/705.10 directory at the service disconnecting means; 705.12(B)(3) at the interconnection point (busbar/breaker). The Town adds nothing, and Duke adds nothing. On a Tier 1 job where Duke has NOT elected to install a manual disconnect, there is no utility disconnect to label at all. 78% · codified Code (enumerated absence) + NEC 2020

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 Tier 1 system (10 kW or less, inverter-based) there is normally NO customer-installed AC disconnect. FAC 25-6.065(6)(a), read first-hand: an investor-owned utility's standard agreement 'may require customers to install, at the customer's expense, a manual disconnect switch of the visible load break type ... INVERTER-BASED TIER 1 CUSTOMER-OWNED RENEWABLE GENERATION SYSTEMS SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM THIS REQUIREMENT, UNLESS THE MANUAL DISCONNECT SWITCH IS INSTALLED AT THE INVESTOR-OWNED UTILITY'S EXPENSE.' Duke's own tariff, paragraph 15: 'In the event the Company elects to install a manual disconnect switch, IT SHALL BE AT THE COMPANY'S EXPENSE. The Company installed disconnect switch shall be the visible load break type ... The disconnect switch shall be MOUNTED SEPARATE FROM, BUT ADJACENT TO the Company's meter socket. The Customer shall ensure that such disconnect switch shall remain readily accessible to the Company and be capable of being locked in the open position with a single Company utility lock.' So: if it appears, it is beside the meter, Duke pays for it, and Duke can padlock it. The Town adds no disconnect rule of its own. 92% · FAC 25-6.065(6)(a) + Duke Tier 1 agreement para. 15
• Must equipment be on a specific approved list? Yes, twice over. (1) FLORIDA PRODUCT APPROVAL: the Town's own Product Approval Form requires, for every building component used, 'the information and approval numbers ... FL Approved products are listed online at www.floridabuilding.org', plus 'Internet screen from FloridaBuilding.org showing PA#, approval and code edition stamped' and 'Manufacturer's installation details from FloridaBuilding.org ... for each product stamped', and states 'Specific compliance will be verified during field inspections.' (2) UTILITY LISTING: Duke Tier 1 paragraph 5 - generation is certified for interconnected operation only if 'submitted by a manufacturer to a nationally recognized testing and certification laboratory, and ... tested and listed by the laboratory 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'; paragraph 6 requires a utility-interactive inverter that automatically isolates on loss of grid. 85% · Town Product Approval Form + Duke Tier 1 agreement
• Are batteries permitted, and under what conditions? Permitted, with no local conditions whatever. The Town's code contains no energy-storage provision of any kind: 'energy storage' 0, 'inverter' 0, 'battery' 2 (both criminal-code references to sexual battery), 'ESS' with no relevant hit, across 3,731,198 characters with search controls passing. So a residential battery is governed only by the adopted state codes - FBC-Residential and NEC 2020 Article 706, and the Florida Fire Prevention Code 8th Edition - plus Duke's tariff, which for Tier 1 contains no storage clause. There is no Town-published limit on capacity, location, garage/interior siting, separation or listing beyond the codes. 80% · codified Code (enumerated absence)
• Is there a separate ESS permit or inspection? No separate ESS permit or ESS inspection is published. The Town's fee schedule has no storage, battery or ESS line; the application's work-type grid has no storage box; there is no ESS checklist. In practice a battery would be permitted on the same electrical sub-permit under the master permit, and inspected on the same electrical inspections, at $50.00 per inspection. Contrast the nearest authority: Orange County at least carries 'Battery backup' as an enumerated system-description option on its solar checklist. 75% · Town Building Permit Fee Schedule (enumerated absence)
• Is a ground mount treated as a structure? Yes. LDC sec. 42-4: 'Structure means anything constructed, installed, or portable, the use of which requires a location on or attachment to a parcel of land ... Also, the term structure is anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a fixed location on the ground or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground.' A ground mount is therefore a structure and, being subordinate to the dwelling, an ACCESSORY structure, which engages LDC sec. 60-114: it must meet the front and side yard setbacks of the PRINCIPAL structure (R-1: 25 ft front, 5 ft one side / 15 ft both sides); it may extend into the required rear yard only if it occupies no more than 15 PERCENT OF THE REAR YARD and does not exceed 12 FEET IN HEIGHT; and sec. 60-47 counts it toward the district's maximum building coverage (35% in R-1, 40% in R-2). Sec. 60-114(3) is the helpful limb for equipment: 'Air conditioning units, pool circulation pumps, and similar mechanical equipment may be located within a required side yard or rear yard; provided, however, that no such equipment shall be located closer than five feet to any lot line' - which a ground-mounted inverter or battery cabinet should fall within. 88% · LDC sec. 42-4 + sec. 60-114
• Is there a local rule on service upgrades or busbar sizing? No local rule. There is no service-upgrade, busbar, 120%-rule or ampacity amendment anywhere in the Town's code, and the fee schedule has no amperage bands (contrast Orange County's, which prices a service change by the difference between amperage bands). A service upgrade would be priced on the same electrical valuation line, '$50.00 base plus $6.00 per $1000'. The governing rule is NEC 2020 705.12. 80% · Town Building Permit Fee Schedule (enumerated absence)
• Is a specific mounting system or attachment spacing required? No local mounting or attachment-spacing standard. What the Town does require is a Florida-licensed architect's or engineer's seal on the plans (unconditionally, per the checklist and the procedure handout) and Florida Product Approval information for structural components, with 'manufacturer's installation details from FloridaBuilding.org and requirements for each product stamped' - so the attachment detail is controlled by the sealed drawing and the product approval, not by a Town specification. Contrast the nearest authority: Orange County's solar checklist specifies fastener type, material, diameter, length and SPACING, rail dimensions and penetration flashing. Eatonville publishes no equivalent. 80% · Town Product Approval Form + checklist

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? By EMAIL to the contracted operator, or by phone to the Town. The Building Permit Procedure handout, item 17: 'Inspection(s) are to be scheduled online at bidscheduling@universalengineering.com or you can call the Building Dept for assistance at 407-623-8904.' The 2016 checklist repeats it: 'For inspections please email bidscheduling@universalengineering.com.' The 2023 checklist adds a portal: 'The portal you must go to schedule inspections has also been pasted below so that you can click it and then add it to your favorites for easy access. http://gadget.teamues.com/citizenportal/'. Note that the address the Town calls 'online' is an email address. 90% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout item 17
• How much notice is required? No notice period is published. The Town states no cut-off time, no lead time and no next-business-day rule anywhere. What IS published is a penalty for getting it wrong in the other direction: fee schedule IV.C, 'Failure to call for inspection $50.00 (flat fee)'. The statutory floor is FS 553.79(1)(d), which requires the local enforcement agency to accept inspection requests electronically - which the Town does, by email. 75% · Town fee schedule + enumerated document set
• Are same-day or AM/PM windows offered? Not published. No AM/PM window, no same-day option and no inspection-day calendar appears in any Town document. The only timing figure the Town publishes is a PRICE for duration: fee schedule IV.D, 'Any Inspections that are over 1-hour to complete will be charged $50.00 per each additional hour' - so the site should be ready and the inspection short. The Building Department's counter hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday (2023 checklist) and 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday to Friday (Planning & Permitting department page); RFP 2018-5-1 required contract inspectors to work 'during normal business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday'. 75% · Town fee schedule IV.D + RFP 2018-5-1 section 2.4.3(h)

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? Delegated. The Town is the AHJ and the inspection is performed in its name, but by UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES under contract. Three independent proofs on the Town's own paper: the permit application's Department Approvals table has a row 'Building Official (Universal Engineering Sciences)'; the Product Approval Form is printed on UES letterhead; and inspections are booked at bidscheduling@universalengineering.com. The budget corroborates: department 515 Planning & Community Development carries $162,000 of payroll across three posts (Planner Director, Administrative Permit Clerk, Special Events Coordinator - no inspector, no plans examiner, no building official) against CONTRACTUAL SERVICES of $118,450 budgeted for FY2027 and $199,895 actually spent by 31 May 2026, i.e. two and a half times the whole department payroll. 90% · Town permit application Department Approvals table + budget
• If delegated, to whom? UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES (UES), 3532 Maggie Blvd., Orlando, FL 32811, tel 407-581-8161, www.universalengineering.com (now teamues.com). It holds the BUILDING OFFICIAL function, plan review and inspections. Separately, Community Development is a 'Consultant Planner' and Engineering a 'Consultant' on the same approvals table, and FIRE is Orange County. The procurement that created the arrangement is RFP No. 2018-5-1, 'Plan Review and Inspection Services for the Planning, Zoning and Building Department', proposals due 3 August 2018, seeking 'building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing and/or site inspection and plan review services in accordance with the requirements of Florida Statutes 468, Part XIII and Florida Building Code, Chapter 18 ... on a full-time or as-needed basis', with a three-year term renewable for up to four more years. 92% · Town RFP No. 2018-5-1 (Plan Review and Inspection Services)

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? No inspection sequence is published for a photovoltaic job, or for any job. The Town publishes no inspection card, no stage list and no inspection catalogue. What the published documents establish is the shape: the building official reviews all plans before any permit issues; 'When permit is approved a HARD CARD and permit will be issued accordingly'; inspections are then requested one at a time and billed at $50.00 each; and for new construction an insulation certificate, termite coverage letter and final survey must be produced before the final inspection and certificate of occupancy. For an electrical sub-permit the expected stages are a rough and a final, but no Town instrument says so. 75% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout (enumerated absence)
• Is a rough-in or mid-roof inspection required? Not published. No rough-in, mid-roof, in-progress or sheathing inspection is named in any Town document. The only inspection the Town describes by name is the final inspection before a certificate of occupancy for new construction. The fee schedule bills per inspection, which implies more than one, and the application has a plural 'Inspection(s)' fee line. 75% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout (enumerated absence)

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. The Town publishes no inspection checklist of any kind - not for solar, not for electrical, not for any trade. The only checklist it publishes is the PERMIT APPLICATION checklist (submittal, not inspection), in two vintages (2016 and 2023). The contracted operator publishes nothing for Eatonville either. 88% · Town DocumentCenter (fully enumerated)
• What must be on site at inspection? The permit and the hard card, the approved plans, and the product-approval paperwork. LDC sec. 44-286(d): 'All building permits shall be issued in duplicate, and one copy shall be kept on the premises affected IN A CONSPICUOUS LOCATION VISIBLE FROM THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY AND PROTECTED FROM THE WEATHER whenever construction work is being performed. No owner, contractor, workman, or other person shall perform any building operations of any kind unless a building permit covering such operation is displayed as required.' Sec. 44-286(b): the approved plot plan copy 'shall become part of the construction plans and be kept on the premises of the construction and available for review by the town.' Product Approval Form: the approval cover sheet, the FloridaBuilding.org screens and the manufacturer's installation details must be 'available onsite for inspections'. A recorded Notice of Commencement is required for any job over $2,500 and must be recorded at Orange County. Inside the historic district, sec. 48-49(10) adds the Certificate of Appropriateness itself: 'No work for which a certificate of appropriateness is required may be undertaken unless a certificate of appropriateness authorizing the work is conspicuously posted on the property.' 88% · LDC sec. 44-286 + Product Approval Form
• Does the inspector verify labels and listings? Yes for listings, and the Town says so in writing; labels are not separately addressed. The Product Approval Form states 'The following information must be turned in with permit application AND AVAILABLE ONSITE FOR INSPECTIONS' and closes 'It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that specific products have been installed in accordance with their limitations and with the minimum required design pressures for the structure. SPECIFIC COMPLIANCE WILL BE VERIFIED DURING FIELD INSPECTIONS.' Verification of NEC placards is implicit in an electrical final against NEC 2020 but is not stated by the Town. 80% · Town Product Approval Form

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 final inspection approval on the hard card; a Certificate of Occupancy only where one is due. Building Permit Procedure item 14: 'When permit is approved a hard card and permit will be issued accordingly.' LDC sec. 44-314 requires a certificate of occupancy before any land or building is occupied and sec. 44-252 has the planning director issue 'a certificate of occupancy or a statement of zoning compliance' once the work is found to accord with the permit. For new construction the Town additionally requires an insulation certificate, a termite coverage letter and a final survey before the final inspection and CO. A rooftop PV retrofit does not change occupancy, so the deliverable is the signed-off hard card / final inspection approval, which is also the document Duke's tariff paragraph 7 requires the customer to produce. 80% · LDC sec. 44-252/44-314 + Town procedure handout
• Who notifies the utility for PTO? The INSTALLER or CUSTOMER, not the AHJ. Duke Energy Florida's Tier 1 agreement puts both limbs on the customer: paragraph 7, 'The Customer agrees to provide Local Building Code Official inspection and certification of installation. The certification shall reflect that the local code official has inspected and certified that the installation was permitted, has been approved, and has met all electrical and mechanical qualifications'; paragraph 12, 'Prior to connection and parallel operation of the Customer's generation system with the Company's electric system, the Customer shall provide 10 DAYS NOTICE and permit the Company, if it should so choose, to inspect the system'. Neither the Town nor Universal Engineering Sciences notifies Duke. Paragraph 14 puts the cost of the bi-directional meter on Duke. 88% · Duke Energy Florida Tier 1 agreement paras 7, 12, 14
• Is there a re-inspection fee? $50.00. Fee schedule IV.B: 'Re-inspections of rejected work $50.00'. Also IV.C 'Failure to call for inspection $50.00 (flat fee)' and IV.D '$50.00 per each additional hour' for inspections over one hour. The Town's budget carries the revenue: 001-329-0001 RE-INSPECTION FEES, $250 actual to 31 May 2026, $500 proposed for FY2027 - which is about ten re-inspections a year in the whole town. There is no escalating ladder. Also worth knowing: fee schedule IV.A, 'Double the permit fee or $100 whichever is greater' for work started without a permit, and IV.E, 'Canceled Permits are subject to Plan Review Fees'. 92% · Town Building Permit Fee Schedule IV
• How are corrections issued and cleared? By a written letter of denial, and the statute controls its content. Building Permit Procedure handout items 10-13: 'Building official will submit comments of approval or denial as well as the other departments. Depending on the scope of work will determine the timeframe a permit will be required for review. If the project is denied by the Building official, the applicant(s) will receive a LETTER OF DENIAL EXPLAINING THE REASON FOR DENIAL. If any other department denies the project, their comment(s) will also be on file and explained to the applicant(s).' FS 553.79(1)(a) requires the agency, on any denial, to 'identify the specific plan or project features that do not comply ... identify the specific code chapters and sections upon which the finding is based, and provide this information to the permit applicant', with a plans reviewer who fails to do so subject to discipline under FS 468.621(1)(i). FS 553.792(1)(f)-(g) gives the applicant 10 business days to submit revisions and the agency 10 business days to act on them. 82% · Town Building Permit Procedure handout items 10-13