Town of Juno Beach

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 Juno Beach Building Department is the AHJ for residential solar inside the town limits; it issues the permit and performs the inspections itself. 96% · department page
• What does this authority permit itself, and what does it delegate? Both. The Town permits and inspects building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical and roofing itself. It delegates nothing, but fire plan review sits with Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (billed separately and payable before issuance) and an owner may elect a private provider under FS 553.791 for structural, electrical, mechanical or plumbing only - zoning, fire, civil engineering and public works stay with the Town. 92% · fee schedule + private provider policy page
• Is a permit required for a residential rooftop PV system? Yes. A permit is always required for residential rooftop PV. The Town's HB 803 packet states in terms that electrical work and structural work 'will continue to require a permit regardless of the project job cost', so the $7,500 exemption never reaches a PV installation. 95% · authority policy packet
• Is there a separate electrical permit, or is it combined? Combined under a master permit. The Fee Booklet states 'MAIN BUILDING PERMIT WILL INCLUDE ALL SUB-PERMITS', so the electrical work is a sub-permit carried by the parent building permit and does not attract its own valuation fee. The application form nonetheless asks the applicant to 'Circle ONE Permit Type: BUILDING / ELECTRICAL / PLUMBING / MECHANICAL / ROOFING', so a standalone electrical permit exists as a filing type. 85% · fee schedule
• Is a HOA or architectural approval required first? No, for a normal rooftop PV job. The Town's Architectural Review Board application is required only for new construction, first-floor expansion, second-storey addition or a major modification (facade change on the same footprint), and the FAQ states it is required 'when major renovations exceed 50% of the improvement value of the structure and/or any new proposed residential construction project that is not located in a Planned Unit Development'. A PV array reaches none of those. Private covenants are a separate matter and FS 163.04 voids any covenant prohibiting solar collectors statewide. 80% · authority form + department FAQ
• Is there a historic-district review? Only inside the historic districts. Chapter 34 Article III creates a HIST-B Beachbound historic preservation district and related historic zoning districts with their own accessory-structure and materials rules ('Accessory structures: materials, design, and color shall match principal structure'). There is no town-wide historic review, and no historic provision names solar. 70% · codified ordinance
• Is a wind or windstorm certification required? No local windstorm certification. Juno Beach is in Palm Beach County and so is outside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, which is Miami-Dade and Broward only; the statewide Florida Product Approval system under FAC Rule chapter 61G20-3 applies, and wind loads come from the FBC / ASCE 7. The Code contains no wind-speed figure, no product-approval clause and no impact-resistance rule - 'product approval' and 'wind load' both return zero across the 1,058-document harvest. 72% · state rule + codified ordinance (absence)
• Is a Specific Use Permit or Council approval ever required? Not for solar. No special exception, special use permit or Council approval is triggered by a PV system. The only roof-mounted-equipment special-exception regime in the Code is for satellite dish antennas, where 'By special exception, the satellite dish antenna may be located in a side yard or be placed on the roof of the principal structure'. Council approval is codified only for walls and fences around dangerous areas such as utility plants or substations exceeding the height limit. 68% · codified ordinance
• Is there a system-size cap on residential generation? No Town cap. The binding cap is FPL's: Tier 1 is 10 kW AC or less gross power rating, where for inverter-based systems the AC rating is the installed DC nameplate multiplied by 0.85 - so the Tier 1 ceiling is about 11.76 kW DC. Tier 1 also requires the system to be no more than 90% of the customer's distribution service rating and to have an AC generating capacity of less than 115% of the customer's previous 12 months' kWh usage. Above 10 kW AC the job becomes Tier 2 ($400 application fee) or Tier 3 ($1,000); the overall ceiling on any one meter is 2 MW. 85% · utility tariff

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 contractor holding an active State or Palm Beach County licence who has first registered with the Town, or the property owner of a one-family residence under an Owner Builder Affidavit. The Town's FAQ is explicit: 'you will only be able to apply for a permit once you have registered as contractor'. 88% · department FAQ
• Must the contractor be registered with this authority before applying? Yes. Registration with the Town is mandatory before a permit application can be made: apply through MGO Connect ('Apply for Contractor Registration') with a copy of the active State or County licence and a Certificate of Insurance (workers' comp and liability) naming 'Town of Juno Beach, 340 Ocean Drive, Juno Beach - FL 33408' as certificate holder. Fee is $2.00 for non-state-certified contractors and no charge for state-certified contractors. 95% · department FAQ + fee schedule
• Is a homeowner permitted to self-install and self-permit? Yes for a one-family residence - the Town publishes an Owner Builder Affidavit. It is closed for condominiums and other multifamily: FS 489.103(7) limits the owner-builder exemption to 'a one-family residence', and that is state law, not a local choice. 82% · authority form

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? No solar-specific checklist exists. The general package is: the notarised Application for Building Permit & Certificate of Occupancy (signed by both owner and qualifier, each before a notary), the job address and Property Control Number, the flood zone, the estimated job cost, contractor registration on file, a recorded Notice of Commencement where the Florida lien law requires one, plans, and a Final Cost of Construction Affidavit before the Certificate of Occupancy or Completion issues. 65% · authority form
• How many copies, and in what format? Electronic, through the MGO Connect customer portal; no copy count is published. FS 553.79(1)(b) as amended by HB 803 requires the local agency to accept applications electronically, and a building official may accept a paper application at his discretion. 70% · department FAQ + statute
• Is a site plan required, and what must it show? Nothing PV-specific is published. The permit application requires the job address, Property Control Number, legal description and Flood Zone. The nearest published analogue is the Town's mechanical equipment practice: for a ground-mounted condenser it requires a property survey with the location marked up, 'to make sure that all new mechanical equipment meets the Town's setback requirements'; for a roof-mounted condenser it requires a Google Earth or PAPA aerial view with the location marked up. 62% · department FAQ
• Is a one-line / three-line diagram required? Not required by any published Town document. FPL requires one at the utility level: ESS Section XIII.A.3 states 'Meter numbers associated with interconnecting premise must be included in Single Line Diagrams (SLD) and/or plans', and XIII.A.4 requires plans to show the dimension between the meter socket and the DER disconnect switch. 72% · utility standard
• Are string and conductor calculations required? Not required by the Town and not required by FPL. The FPL Tier 1 route turns on inverter certification (UL 1741 / IEEE 1547) rather than on calculations, and a System Impact Study - which is where FPL asks for protection and coordination, grounding, load flow and arc flash work - is a Tier 2/Tier 3 instrument that FPL says 'may be required for some generating systems'. 60% · utility standard + department pages (absence)
• Is a structural PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No local structural PE threshold is published; the Florida Building Code governs. The only sealed-plan requirement the Town has codified for roof-mounted equipment is for satellite dish antennas: Chapter 34 requires 'Signed and sealed plans, drawn by a state-registered professional engineer' plus structural drawings showing footing dimensions and reinforcing before a building permit issues. There is no threshold-building or special-inspector provision in the Code, although the Town does publish the FBC form 'Employment as a Special Inspector under the Florida Building Code'. 62% · codified ordinance
• Is an electrical PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No local rule. The statewide floor applies unstated: FS 471.003(2)(h) exempts electrical work from the PE-stamp requirement below $125,000 and below an aggregate service capacity of 600 amperes at 240 volts on a residential system. The Juno Beach Code carries no restatement of it and no stale $50,000 figure. 60% · codified ordinance (absence) + state 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? MyGovernmentOnline / MGO Connect (mgoconnect.org), operated by South Central Planning & Development Commission. Records search is separate, on a Laserfiche WebLink instance at search.juno-beach.fl.us. 96% · department page
• Can the whole application be completed online? Almost. Application, contractor registration, fee payment and inspection booking are all online through MGO Connect, and the Town states permit fees can be paid online 'only via credit card' - in person it accepts cash or cheques only. Two steps are not online: the Application for Building Permit must be sworn before a notary by both owner and qualifier, and the Owner Builder Affidavit is likewise notarised (the HB 803 exemption form allows online notarisation). 85% · department FAQ + authority forms
• What does a residential solar permit cost? Main permit fee is percentage-of-valuation: $100 flat under $5,000, and 2.0% of the value of work from $5,000.01 to $1,000,000. Minimum permit fee $100. An Administrative Fee of $150 is charged on top. So a $20,000 residential PV job is about $400 + $150 = $550 before the state DBPR (1%) and DCA (1.5%) surcharges; a $12,000 job about $240 + $150 = $390. All sub-permits are covered by the main permit fee. Private provider use reduces the building permit fee by 25% for plan review and a further 25% for inspections. 88% · fee schedule
• How is the fee calculated? Valuation, tiered, with a flat floor: $100 flat under $5,000; 2.0% of value of work $5,000.01-$1,000,000; 1.75% $1,000,000.01-$3,000,000; 1.5% over $3,000,000. Valuation is defined by the Town's own FBC amendment 109.3 to include materials, labour, structural, electrical, gas, mechanical and plumbing equipment, interior finish, related site work, architectural and design fees, marketing costs, overhead and profit, excluding only land value, and the Building Official sets the final valuation. 92% · fee schedule + codified ordinance
• Is there a separate plan-check fee? No separate plan-check fee line exists in the Fee Booklet. Plan review is carried inside the permit fee, except that engineering and technical review by the Town's contracted professional firms is reimbursable by the applicant at the firms' hourly rates with a surety deposit taken up front (Ordinance Nos. 615 and 657). Plan review fees already performed are non-refundable, and a private provider reduces the building permit fee by 25% for plan review. 75% · fee schedule

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? No local clock is published; the statutory clock binds. FS 553.792(1)(a) as amended by HB 803 (s. 10, ch. 2026-63) requires approval, conditional approval or denial within 5 business days for an electrical permit on an existing single-family dwelling where the value of the work is less than $15,000, and within 30 business days for an electrical or accessory-structure permit where the structure is less than 7,500 sq ft. Completeness must be notified within 5 business days or the application is automatically deemed complete. Missing a deadline costs the Town 10% of the permit fee per business day. 82% · statute + authority policy page
• How long is an issued permit valid before it expires? Three layers, and they differ. (1) FBC 105.3.2-105.4.1.4 as the Town restates it: void if work does not commence within six months, or is suspended or abandoned for six months; active progress means an approved inspection at least every 180 days. (2) The Town's own amendment Sec. 6-24 / 105.4.1.5: a permit for a project of 5,000 sq ft or less becomes invalid unless the work is commenced AND completed within twelve months of issuance. (3) HB 803 / FS 553.79(1)(c): a permit for a single-family dwelling expires one year after issuance or on the effective date of the next edition of the Florida Building Code, whichever is later. Active permits may be extended 90 days on written justification; permits expired over 180 days may not be renewed except at the Building Official's discretion. 85% · authority form + codified ordinance + statute
• Which utility handles interconnection here? Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), an investor-owned utility regulated by the Florida PSC. 92% · authority form (demolition release)
• Where does the utility sit in the sequence? Parallel, with the utility's final step after the Town's. FPL's Tier 1 agreement Sec. 3.4 requires the customer to provide 'Local Building Code Official inspection and certification of installation ... 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'; Sec. 3.5 requires ten calendar days' notice before the equipment is first placed in service; Sec. 3.6 requires FPL to execute the agreement within thirty calendar days of a completed application. So the application can run alongside the permit, but permission to operate follows the Town's final inspection. 88% · utility tariff

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 (NFPA 70, 2020 edition), in force through the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023), effective 31 December 2023. Juno Beach adopts no NEC edition of its own - the Code has no electrical chapter at all (Chapters 3, 5, 9, 11, 13 are reserved) and the phrase 'National Electrical Code' appears exactly once in the whole 1,058-document harvest, in the sign regulations. 85% · state adopting rule + codified ordinance (absence)
• Which building code edition is in force? Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), as updated by the Florida Building Commission through 9 December 2025. Town Code Sec. 6-23 adopts it floating and without a year: 'The Florida Building Code, as adopted by the state legislature, is hereby incorporated by reference as the building code for the town, subject to the administrative amendments set forth in section 6-24.' 94% · state adopting rule + codified ordinance
• Which fire code edition is in force? Florida Fire Prevention Code 8th Edition - FAC Rule 69A-60.003 adopts 'Standards of the National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 1, the Fire Code, Florida 2021 Edition', effective 31 December 2023. Juno Beach adopts no fire code of its own; Chapter 9 of its Code is reserved and the FFPC is referenced only as state law. Enforcement sits with Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. 85% · state adopting rule
• Are there local amendments to any of the above? Yes, but none of them touches solar. Administrative amendments at Sec. 6-24 rewrite FBC Chapter 1: 105.4.1.5 (projects of 5,000 sq ft or less must be commenced and completed within 12 months), 105.6.2 and 109.4 (work before permit issuance costs 100% of the permit fee plus penalties up to 300%), and 109.3 (valuation definition, Marshall & Swift floor, Building Official sets the final valuation). Technical amendments at Sec. 7-21(c) push the flood definitions and elevations into the FBC: substantial damage and substantial improvement take the Town's Sec. 7-12 definitions, FBC Building 1612 minimum elevation becomes ASCE 24 or base flood elevation plus 18 inches whichever is higher, and FBC Residential R322 becomes BFE plus 18 inches or the design flood elevation whichever is higher. 94% · codified ordinance
• What is the installation judged against? The Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) with NEC 2020, plus the Town's own Chapter 7 floodplain regulations (base flood elevation plus 18 inches, and a substantial-improvement test), plus Chapter 34 zoning (mechanical-equipment yard setbacks and the screening duty), plus Palm Beach County ULDC Article 14 Chapter A for sea turtle lighting and glass inside the Sea Turtle Protection Zone, plus FPL's Electric Service Standards Section XIII and tariff Section 9 for everything on the utility side of the meter. 80% · codified ordinance + utility standard

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. Ridge setback and roof access pathways come from the Florida Fire Prevention Code 8th Edition and the FBC as adopted statewide, and are enforced through Palm Beach County Fire Rescue's plan review rather than by the Town. The Juno Beach Code contains no fire chapter at all - Chapter 9 is reserved - and no setback, pathway or access provision touching roofs. 65% · codified ordinance (absence) + state fire 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 - rapid shutdown to NEC 2020 Article 690.12, by operation of the statewide code cycle. No Juno Beach instrument mentions rapid shutdown, NEC 690 or NEC 705: '690.' returns three hits, all zoning Sec. 34-690, and '705.10' returns four, all FS 705.101 and 705.105 on unclaimed property. 78% · state adopting rule + codified ordinance (absence)

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? The Town requires none of its own. Every placard on a Juno Beach job is FPL's. FPL Electric Service Standards Section XIII.A.6 (revision 10-30-25): 'All labels must be permanent and weatherproof/UV resistant placard with engraved letters. The customer is responsible for all labeling requirements. The following labels must be installed at the interconnecting meter can and the DER disconnect switch.' Two label texts follow - at the INTERCONNECTING METER CAN: 'WARNING / MULTI POWER SOURCES / [sources] / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS'; at the DER DISCONNECT SWITCH: 'GENERATION SYSTEM AC DISCONNECT / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS'. Where battery storage sits behind the meter, XIII.C.1 requires a placard 'permanently affixed to the meter enclosure stating "Battery storage utilized in this facility."' And tariff Sec. 5.3 adds a second, tariff-side placard: where FPL agrees the manual disconnect may sit away from the meter, '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'. 90% · utility standard
• Does the authority specify placard wording of its own? No. The Town of Juno Beach specifies no placard wording of its own, for solar or for anything else. 'Solar' and 'photovoltaic' return zero across the 1,058-document code harvest, zero across 617 named DocumentCenter filenames, and the live site search returns exactly one 'solar' hit - a job applicant's resume describing a solar farm built in another jurisdiction. 88% · codified ordinance (proved absence)
• Does it specify letter height, colour or material? The Town specifies nothing. FPL specifies material and construction but not dimensions: labels must be 'permanent and weatherproof/UV resistant placard with engraved letters' (ESS XIII.A.6), and the tariff Sec. 5.3 plaque must be 'permanent weather-proof'. No letter height, colour or contrast requirement appears in either instrument. 85% · utility standard
• Is a site plan / facility map placard required, and what must it show? No. Neither the Town nor FPL requires a facility map or site-plan placard. NEC 705.10 is unrestated by this authority - the eleventh consecutive Florida authority where that is true. The nearest instrument anywhere in the chain is FPL tariff Sec. 5.3, which is a location pointer for a relocated manual disconnect and not a facility map: 'a permanent weather-proof plaque adjacent to FPL's meter socket indicating the location of the manual disconnect switch or switches'. 75% · utility tariff + codified ordinance (absence)
• Does the UTILITY specify placards beyond the AHJ's? Yes - entirely. FPL's placards are the only placards specified by anyone with jurisdiction here: ESS XIII.A.6's meter-can and DER-disconnect labels, XIII.C.1's battery placard on the meter enclosure, and tariff Sec. 5.3's weather-proof location plaque. The AHJ specifies none. 90% · utility standard
• Where must the labels be placed? At the interconnecting meter can and at the DER disconnect switch (ESS XIII.A.6). Where battery storage is present, additionally permanently affixed to the meter enclosure (XIII.C.1). Where FPL has agreed the manual disconnect may sit away from the meter, additionally adjacent to FPL's meter socket (tariff Sec. 5.3). Note that on a UL 1741 inverter-based Tier 1 job there is no customer disconnect switch to label, so in practice the meter-can label is the one that lands. 90% · utility standard

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 the normal residential job, nowhere - there is no customer AC disconnect. FPL tariff 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', and PSC Rule 25-6.065(6)(a) makes that exemption mandatory for investor-owned utilities. Where one IS required - a non-UL-1741 Tier 1 system, a Tier 2 or Tier 3 system, or any line-side tap - it must be 'mounted separate from but adjacent to the FPL meter socket within 10 feet and must always remain accessible to FPL', with 'no locked gates, doors or fences between the meter socket and the DER disconnect switch', connected on the load side of the meter, visually open, and lockable open with a single FPL padlock. Plans must show the dimension between meter socket and disconnect. Note the tap point overrides the tier: ESS XIII.A.5 requires a manual AC disconnect for a line-side interconnection regardless of tier. 92% · utility tariff + utility standard + state rule
• Must equipment be on a specific approved list? Yes, at the utility level. FPL ESS XIII.A.1: 'The customer must utilize a certified UL 1741 SA and IEEE 1547 grid interactive inverter. Inverters that have not been certified to UL Standard will be denied interconnection.' Tariff Sec. 3.1 requires listing by a nationally recognised testing laboratory for continuous interactive operation to IEEE 1547, IEEE 1547.1 and UL 1741. Battery storage behind the meter must be NRTL-certified to the current UL 1741 standard, and non-certified storage must be DC coupled behind a UL 1741 listed device. The Town imposes no approved-list requirement of its own; statewide, Florida Product Approval under FAC 61G20-3 applies to building components. 88% · utility standard + utility tariff
• Are batteries permitted, and under what conditions? Permitted, under the FBC and FFPC as adopted statewide - the Town adds nothing. FPL's conditions are the operative local constraints: storage behind the meter must be NRTL-certified to the current UL 1741 standard; a placard must be permanently affixed to the meter enclosure stating 'Battery storage utilized in this facility'; energy stored is for the customer's use only and may not be exported to the grid at this time; storage paired with Tier 3 generation is reviewed in the fast-track study; and storage installed without renewable generation purely as emergency backup may be grid-charged and requires no interconnection agreement, provided the customer prevents back-feed. 72% · utility standard + codified ordinance (absence)
• Is a ground mount treated as a structure? Yes. Chapter 34 defines 'structure' as 'anything constructed, assembled or erected with a fixed location on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground', which reaches a ground-mounted array on its face. Two further rules bite. Sec. 34-902(3): mechanical equipment 'shall not be located in the front yard and shall be located a minimum of five feet from any side or rear property line' (ten feet where a nonresidential or multifamily use adjoins residential). Sec. 34-908: 'All mechanical equipment ... shall be screened from public view on all sides when feasible, or to the maximum extent possible', with screening materials consistent with the architectural design of the principal structure and extending at least one foot above the object screened. 70% · codified ordinance

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? Portal, and portal only. 'All inspections must be scheduled online through MGO Connect.' Instructions are on page 9 of the MGO Connect help guide the Town publishes. 95% · department page
• How much notice is required? One business day. 'The cut off time for scheduling inspections is by 4pm the day before the intended inspection date.' Inspections run 8 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday excluding legal holidays. 92% · department page
• Are same-day or AM/PM windows offered? No AM/PM windows are offered. The Town says inspectors 'can only offer a 2-hour window time frame for when an inspection will take place (between 8 am and 4 pm)', and that window must be requested by contacting the assigned inspector directly, TEXT ONLY, using the numbers on the department directory. The five inspection staff and their mobile numbers are published. 90% · department FAQ + staff directory

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 Town performs its own inspections with its own staff: a Building Official, a Chief Inspector and three inspectors, all reachable at juno-beach.fl.us addresses. Its FS 553.80(7)(b) report for 2022 records 3,513 inspections and re-inspections requested, 3,509 conducted, 0 conducted by a private provider, and 4 personnel dedicated to Florida Building Code enforcement. 92% · statutory report + staff directory
• If delegated, to whom? Not delegated. The only alternative route is the owner's own election of a private provider under FS 553.791, which the Town recognises only after it has reviewed and accepted a Notice to Building Official on the Town's own form. Private providers may cover building, roofing, structural, electrical, mechanical and plumbing only; zoning, fire, civil engineering and public works stay with the Town. If a private provider is terminated mid-inspection the owner must find another - 'The Town of Juno Beach will not take over inspection duties.' 85% · department policy page

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.

Nothing recorded for Town of Juno Beach on this step yet — 2 questions checked and found unpublished. The guidance above is general.

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 generally. The Building department's document set is: permit and business-tax forms, eight affidavits, ten demolition-release forms, two sea turtle lighting applications, the HB 803 packet and exemption form, the Fee Booklet, the MGO Connect help guide and the Florida lien law notice. There is no checklist among them. 80% · department page (proved absence)
• Does the inspector verify labels and listings? Yes, by necessary implication rather than by a published checklist. FPL's Tier 1 agreement Sec. 3.4 makes the Town's certification the gate to interconnection: the customer must provide 'Local Building Code Official inspection and certification ... 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'. FPL makes labelling and UL 1741 listing customer obligations, so an installation lacking them cannot honestly be certified. The Town itself publishes no statement that its inspectors check labels or listings. 55% · utility tariff (inference)

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 Booklet conditions both on one document: 'Final Cost Affidavit is required before Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Occupancy is issued', and the Town publishes a Final Cost of Construction Affidavit form. On a PV job filed as a sub-permit under a master building permit, the Certificate of Completion is the expected instrument. 70% · fee schedule + authority form
• Who notifies the utility for PTO? The customer or their installer, not the AHJ. FPL's Tier 1 agreement puts both duties on the customer: Sec. 3.4, 'The Customer agrees to provide Local Building Code Official inspection and certification of installation', and Sec. 3.5, 'The Customer shall notify FPL at least ten (10) calendar days prior to initially placing Customer's equipment and protective apparatus in service and FPL shall have the right to have personnel present on the in-service date.' Nothing in any Juno Beach document has the Town notifying FPL. 90% · utility tariff
• Is there a re-inspection fee? Yes, and it escalates: 1st re-inspection $50.00; 2nd re-inspection of the same type $50.00 plus a $50.00 penalty fee; 3rd $50.00 plus $100.00 penalty; 4th and all thereafter $50.00 plus $150.00 penalty. Separately, FS 553.79(7)(a) as amended by HB 803 requires the Town to refund 10 percent of the permit and inspection fees if work fails an inspection and the inspector does not give the permitholder a code-based reason within 5 business days. 88% · fee schedule
• How are corrections issued and cleared? Through MGO Connect, with the statutory cycle overlaying it. FS 553.792(1)(f) lets the Town avoid the fee-reduction penalty by giving written notice by e-mail or post stating specifically why the application fails the code, and stating that the applicant has 10 business days to submit revisions or be denied; under (1)(g) the Town then has 10 business days from receiving the revisions to approve or deny, or forfeit 20 percent of the fee per business day. On the inspection side, FS 553.79(7)(a) costs the Town 10 percent of permit and inspection fees where a failure reason is not given within 5 business days. Expired-permit and renewal questions go to permitting@juno-beach.fl.us or 561-656-0304. 70% · statute + department FAQ