Village of Tequesta

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 Village of Tequesta's own Building Department is the AHJ for residential rooftop PV - building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing and zoning permitting and inspection. It is an in-house department with a named Building Director (Wayne Cameron) and a named Building Inspector/Plans Examiner (Matthew Cawley), plus three Building Permits Coordinators and a Building & Business Relations Officer. Palm Beach County does NOT permit or inspect inside the Village. Fire code enforcement is also in-house: Tequesta has run its own Fire Rescue Department since 1 Oct 1993 (voter-approved March 1993), so there is no county fire district in the path either. Zoning/site-plan sits with the Village's Community Development Department (Director Jay Hubsch, AICP). 95% · department page
• What does this authority permit itself, and what does it delegate? Both, and in-house. The Village permits and inspects building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, gas and fire itself; nothing is delegated to Palm Beach County. Plan review disciplines listed by the Village are Zoning, Flood, Engineering, Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Electrical and Fire. The expenditure side confirms in-house staffing rather than outsourcing: the FY2026-27 budget carries the Building Department as its own fund (Fund 101 BUILDING FUND, Dept 180 BUILDING & ZONING) at $1,360,956 total, of which PERSONAL SERVICES is $833,390 (regular salaries $520,311 + part-time $66,438) against only $40,000 of 'INSPECTION SERVICES' (101-180-531.325) and $38,000 of 'OTHER CONTRACTUAL SERVICES' (101-180-534.300) - i.e. contracted services are about 5.7% of the department. Private providers are separately permitted under FS 553.791 with a reduced fee. 90% · budget (proposed FY2026-27, dated 07/06/2026)
• Is a permit required for a residential rooftop PV system? Yes. A permit is required for residential rooftop PV. The Village publishes a dedicated 'SOLAR PANEL PERMIT SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS' checklist, which presupposes a permit. The codified permit-exemption list (Sec. 14-32, local amendment to FBC Ch. 1, Sec. 105.2) exempts only building replacement/repair under $1,000 and, on the electrical side, only 'minor repair work, including the replacement of lamps or the connection of approved portable electrical equipment to approved permanently installed receptacles' - PV is not exempt. Sec. 105.2.2 expressly excludes from 'ordinary minor repairs' any 'addition to, alteration of, replacement or relocation of ... electric wiring systems or mechanical equipment'. The new HB 803 (2026) exemption route also cannot reach solar (see Q7). 95% · published checklist
• Is there a separate electrical permit, or is it combined? Separate, but filed under one project. The Village issues a Building permit (PB-prefix) and a separate Electrical permit (PE-prefix), both tied to a single Project number (J-prefix). Real records on the Village's BS&A portal show this pattern: for project J20-0730 at 329 Fairway N, building permit PB20-0352 and electrical permit PE20-0079 were BOTH issued 7/23/2020 - the companion electrical permit is issued the same day as the building permit, not on a separate clock. The Universal County-wide permit application form carries a single TRADE checkbox (Structural / Roofing / Electrical / Mechanical / Plumbing / Fire / Gas) and a PRIMARY PERMIT vs SUB-PERMIT selector, and states on its face: 'I understand that a separate permit must be secured for ELECTRICAL WORK, PLUMBING, SIGNS, WELLS, POOLS, FURNACES, BOILERS, HEATERS, TANKS, and AIR CONDITIONERS'. 85% · permit portal record
• Is a HOA or architectural approval required first? YES, and it is CODIFIED - this is a real local gate, not boilerplate. Code Sec. 14-6 ('Required association building plan approval'), Ord. No. 04-20 adopted 13 Aug 2020: '(a) At the time of application for a building permit, the applicant must present written proof that the building plans have been submitted to and approved in accordance with association documents by the designated association review committee or association board with review jurisdiction for the subdivision or development in which the construction is to occur. (b) If the subdivision or other development has no building plan review requirements, then the permit applicant shall make a written statement to that effect which may be relied upon by the building official for issuance of a building permit.' So every applicant must produce either HOA approval or a written negative declaration before the permit issues. Sec. 14-32 (FBC 105.3.3) additionally requires the permit to carry a notice on its face warning of possible HOA approval requirements. The Village's ROOF permit checklist states it bluntly: '**For any properties located in an HOA, written HOA approval is required before permit issuance**'. The SOLAR checklist is silent on HOA approval - but Sec. 14-6 is a code requirement and does not depend on the checklist. Countervailing state law: FS 163.04(2) voids any deed restriction or covenant that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting solar collectors on a building. 95% · ordinance (Sec. 14-6, Ord. 04-20)
• Is there a historic-district review? NO. Tequesta has NO historic preservation ordinance, NO historic district, NO local register, NO historic board and NO certificate of appropriateness. I searched the entire codified corpus (2,112,336 characters, 1,424 nodes, every chunk group, zero empty non-Reserved documents) with passing controls: 'certificate of appropriateness' = 0 hits; there is no historic chapter in the table of contents. All 39 'historic' hits are one of three things and none is a gate on an ordinary house: (a) HISTORIC TREES - Ch. 50, Art. VII, Div. 3 'Preservation of historic and specimen trees and native species' (a real designation regime, but for trees); (b) the flood code's definition of 'historic structure' at Sec. 78-832, which means only a building eligible for the FBC Existing Building Chapter 12 exception, used solely to authorise a flood VARIANCE under Sec. 78-815; (c) incidental prose in Sec. 22-82(7) and the FBC amendment. Palm Beach County's own code is likewise empty of PV, so there is no county floor beneath this silence. 95% · codified ordinance (search of full code)
• Is a wind or windstorm certification required? Yes, effectively - site-specific wind design engineering is required and it names solar's two mounting forms explicitly. Plan Review page: 'Site-specific wind design engineering criteria shall be required in accordance with the 2023 Florida Building Code Section 1609.1. Site specific wind design criteria shall be submitted for windows, doors, roofing, siding, soffit, shutters, signs, sign structures, awnings, fences above 6 feet, ROOF MOUNTED EQUIPMENT, GROUND MOUNTED EQUIPMENT, screen rooms, carports, pre-manufactured sheds, cell towers, antennae arrays, and flag poles above 20 feet. All documentation must be signed and sealed by an architect or engineers licensed in Florida.' Published wind speeds (Vult, 3-second gust): Risk Category I 160 mph, Category II 170 mph, Categories III & IV 180 mph. A single-family dwelling is Risk Category II, so 170 mph. Florida Product Approvals and/or Miami-Dade NOAs are required 'where applicable' - Tequesta is NOT in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, so NOAs are an accepted alternative, not a mandate. 90% · department page
• Is a Specific Use Permit or Council approval ever required? Not for a rooftop array on a dwelling - but there is a real, discretionary gate for a GROUND MOUNT, and it is a mechanism rather than a title. The use schedule is a CLOSED (permissive) list. In R-1A (Sec. 78-172) and R-1 (Sec. 78-173) the permitted use is 'Single-family dwellings'; accessory uses are 'Private garages, swimming pools, spas and hot tubs, cabanas and saunas, greenhouses, tennis courts, private docks, utility buildings, gazebos AND ANY OTHER SIMILAR USES DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT'; and subsection (e) then provides: 'Prohibited uses and structures. The following uses and structures are prohibited in the R-1A district: Any use or structure not specifically or by reasonable implication permitted in this section as a permitted use, accessory use or permissible by special exception.' Solar is nowhere in the list. A roof-mounted array is equipment on a permitted dwelling and is contemplated elsewhere in the code (Sec. 78-285 names 'solar collectors'), so it is permitted by reasonable implication. A free-standing ground-mount array is a 'structure' on the zoning definition ('other manmade facility ... or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner') and is not on the accessory list - so it reaches the market only through the Community Development Director's 'similar use' determination. That is an administrative discretion with no published criteria, appealable to the Planning and Zoning Board. Solar is not a listed special exception use in any residential district. Village Council approval is not required. 85% · codified ordinance (use schedule)
• Is there a system-size cap on residential generation? No local cap. There is no kW, size, capacity or generation limit anywhere in the Village code - 'kilowatt' = 0, 'kW' = 0, 'generating capacity' = 0, 'renewable energy' = 0, 'energy system' = 0 across the whole corpus. The only ceilings are the utility's: FPL net metering is tiered by AC inverter rating - Tier 1 up to and including 10 kW, Tier 2 over 10 kW to 100 kW, Tier 3 over 100 kW to 2 MW - and 'Customer generation is limited to 90 percent of the FPL distribution service rating (Transformer).' Indirect local ceilings that bind physically rather than electrically: the R-1A/R-1 building height limit is 2 stories / 30 ft with accessory structures capped at 1 story / 15 ft, and roof-mounted structures exempted from height limits (Sec. 78-282) 'shall not cover in the aggregate a roof area greater than ten percent of the ground floor area' - though solar is not in that exemption list at all (see Q47). 90% · utility DG manual + codified ordinance

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? Licensed electrician (or the licensed contractor of record), or the homeowner as owner-builder under FS 489. The Village requires every contractor to be registered with it first (Q6) and to hold 'State certification or Palm Beach competency certification'. 90% · department form
• Must the contractor be registered with this authority before applying? Yes. Contractors must register with the Village Building Department before pulling a permit. The 'Application for Contractor Registration' requires: general liability insurance AND workers' compensation (or a WC exemption) naming the Village of Tequesta as certificate holder, a business tax receipt, and either State certification or a Palm Beach County competency certification. 'No contractor registration shall be issued until applicable County and State laws are complied with including, but not limited to, Building, Zoning, CILB, Fire Control and Health.' A third party pulling permits or scheduling inspections on the contractor's behalf must file a separate 'Contractor Affidavit to Appoint Agent'. Contractors also need a BS&A Contractor Web PIN from the Building Department to apply online. 95% · department form
• Is a homeowner permitted to self-install and self-permit? Yes, but with an in-person step. The Village publishes an Owner-Builder Disclosure Statement and Affidavit and it states: 'You must personally appear at the Village of Tequesta Building Department with proper identification to sign the permit application and deliver this Owner Builder Disclosure Statement and Affidavit in order for an Owner-Builder permit to be issued.' The Permits FAQ answers 'Do I have to get a permit to work on my own home?' with 'In most cases, yes'. Notarisation is required for all owner/builders regardless of dollar value (for contractors only at $5,000+). The owner-builder line is present on the current Universal application, is NOT silently omitted, and there is no solar-specific carve-out. Separately, the HB 803 (2026) / FS 553.79 exemption route does NOT reach solar: the Village's own Permit Exemption page and its Building Permit Exemption Request form (dated 7/1/2026) exclude Structural, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing and Gas work from the under-$7,500 exemption, and exclude any property wholly or partly in a Special Flood Hazard Area. A residential PV install is electrical and structural work, so it is excluded by construction. 95% · department page + 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? Per the Village's own SOLAR PANEL PERMIT SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS: (1) Building Permit Application [the January 2024 Edition Universal County-wide/Municipal Building Permit Application Form, approved for use throughout Palm Beach County]; (2) 'Signed/sealed (original raised/wet seal) engineered plans'. The sheet adds 'Additional documents may be required during the review process' and that applications are only taken in for review once considered complete. In practice the plan-review page also requires site-specific wind design criteria signed and sealed by a Florida architect/engineer for roof-mounted and ground-mounted equipment, and Florida Product Approvals / Miami-Dade NOAs where applicable. Notice of Commencement is required at $5,000+ aggregate value (Florida-wide). 95% · published checklist
• How many copies, and in what format? Electronic. 'As we move towards electronic scanning and filing of construction plans and documents, we ask for electronic copy for permanent filing.' Applications are submitted through the BS&A online portal; the Village's own how-to sheet says every permit needs at least one attachment because the Universal Building Form is required for any submission, and asks that each file be named descriptively (e.g. NOA, Application, Contract). Number of paper copies is not stated because paper is not the route. Note the one physical exception: the engineered plans must carry an ORIGINAL RAISED/WET SEAL per the solar checklist, which sits awkwardly with an all-electronic submittal. 80% · department page
• Is a site plan required, and what must it show? Not stated for solar. The solar checklist does not list a site plan or survey. By contrast the Village's generator checklist expressly requires a 'Property Survey with generator location showing all setbacks from property lines'. For a GROUND-MOUNT array a survey showing setbacks would be needed to demonstrate compliance with the accessory-structure setbacks at Sec. 78-143 and the screening rule at Sec. 78-285, and Sec. 78-299(c)(5) requires equipment location to be shown on the approved site plan in new development - but nothing published says so for solar. 60% · published checklist
• Is a one-line / three-line diagram required? Not named on the solar checklist. The solar checklist asks only for the application and signed/sealed engineered plans. The Village's ELECTRIC PANEL checklist does require a 'Riser diagram' and 'Load calculations', and the GENERATOR checklist requires 'Electrical Load Calculations and Riser diagram' - so the Village plainly asks for riser diagrams on comparable electrical work. FPL separately requires a Single Line Diagram (SLD) showing meter numbers and, for some installations, a three-line diagram. Expect the Village to require one under the checklist's 'Additional documents may be required' clause. 65% · published checklist
• Are string and conductor calculations required? Not published for solar. The solar checklist does not ask for string or conductor calculations. Load calculations are expressly required on the Village's electric-panel and generator checklists, so the department does ask for calculations on comparable electrical work. 60% · published checklist
• Is a structural PE stamp required, and at what threshold? YES, with NO threshold - this is the sharpest local finding in the permitting set. The Village's solar checklist requires 'Signed/sealed (original raised/wet seal) engineered plans' for a solar panel permit, full stop: no kW, dollar or roof-area trigger, and no exemption for small systems. It is reinforced independently on the Plan Review page: 'Site specific wind design criteria shall be submitted for ... roof mounted equipment, ground mounted equipment ... All documentation must be signed and sealed by an architect or engineers licensed in Florida', in accordance with 2023 FBC Section 1609.1. Published design wind speeds: Risk Category I 160 mph, Category II 170 mph, Categories III & IV 180 mph (a single-family dwelling is Risk Category II, so 170 mph Vult). 95% · published checklist
• Is an electrical PE stamp required, and at what threshold? Not separately specified. The solar checklist requires 'engineered plans' signed and sealed without splitting structural from electrical; the Plan Review page requires the wind-design documentation to be sealed by 'an architect or engineers licensed in Florida'. No separate electrical PE stamp threshold is published. FBC/FS 471 and FS 553.79(5) govern by default. 65% · department page

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? BS&A Online (BS&A Software), unit id 2607 - https://bsaonline.com/?uid=2607. Applications, fee payment, permit-status lookup, record search and inspection scheduling all run through it. Contractors need a BS&A Contractor Web PIN issued by the Building Department. The Village's own tip sheet says 'Google Chrome is the best browser for BS&A' and that 'All permit details can be verified without logging in. This includes inspection status, closure of permits, attachments and more.' 95% · portal landing page
• Can the whole application be completed online? Yes for submission and payment; the application itself is online end to end. 'Can I submit a permit application online? Yes, visit our online BS&A system.' Fees are assigned by the Village's permit coordinator after submission and paid online through a third-party payment site. Two things are NOT online, though: the owner-builder must 'personally appear at the Village of Tequesta Building Department with proper identification', and the solar checklist demands engineered plans bearing an ORIGINAL raised/wet seal. 90% · department page
• What does a residential solar permit cost? There is no solar line item; the fee is computed from valuation and there are at least four components that stack. From Appendix C of the Code and the Master Fee Schedule (effective 10-1-2025, revised 8-12-2025): (a) Application fee $75.00, non-refundable, ADDED TO the permit fee; (b) permit fee = 1% of construction valuation for building work, but 2% of work valuation for 'finish work including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and any other permanently installed equipment' - a rooftop PV system is electrical and permanently installed equipment, so 2% is the governing rate; (c) plan review fee = $0.00125 x valuation, non-refundable, added to the total, with a $50.00 minimum application fee due at submittal; (d) state surcharges 1% (cited to FS 553.721) + 1.5% (cited to FS 468.631), minimum $2.00 each, $4.00 total minimum. A further 1% of construction valuation is listed as a 'Residential and commercial zoning review fee' in the Land Development Fee Schedule at the front of the same document - if that attaches to a solar permit the same valuation is charged twice at 1% and 2%. WORKED EXAMPLE on a $25,000 system: $75 application + $500 permit (2%) + $50 plan review (the $50 minimum beats $31.25) + ~$13 surcharges = approx $638, rising to approx $888 if the 1% zoning review fee also attaches. NOTE the headline trap: the Appendix C table of 'Work Requiring Building permit fee' names 'Solar water heaters and pool heaters' - that is SOLAR THERMAL, not PV; PV is covered by 'Electrical installations and repairs' / 'Service Panel changes' / 'Roofing'. 75% · fee schedule (Master Fee Schedule, effective 10-1-2025)
• How is the fee calculated? Valuation. 'Building permit fees shall be 1% of the construction valuation. Permit fees for finish work including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning and any other permanently installed equipment shall be 2% of the work valuation. "Valuation" shall be as determined by the Florida Building Code Section 109.3.' Fixed fees exist for a named list (temporary CO, power pole, change of contractor, plan revisions, etc.) and where a fixed fee is set the valuation system 'shall not be used' - solar is not on that fixed-fee list. 95% · codified fee schedule (Appendix C)
• Is there a separate plan-check fee? Yes. 'Non-refundable plan review fee and shop drawing fee to be added with the total permit fee; $0.00125 times the valuation', with 'A $50.00 minimum application fee shall be due upon submittal.' Pre-submittal plan review is $150.00 minimum plus $50.00 per hour. Each plan review after the third rejected for a previously noted violation is charged at four times the normal fee per FS 553.80(2)(b). 95% · 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? Five (5) business days, published. 'Plan reviews are usually completed within five (5) business days.' Anything submitted for review after 3:30 PM joins the queue the following business day. Behind that sits a hard codified duty: Sec. 14-32 (FBC Ch. 1 as locally amended), Sec. 105.3.4 - 'A building permit for a single-family residential dwelling must be issued within 30 working days of application therefore unless unusual circumstances require a longer time for processing the application or unless the permit application fails to satisfy the Florida Building Code or the enforcing agency's laws or ordinances.' 90% · department page
• How long is an issued permit valid before it expires? Permit application: void 180 days after filing, extendable in periods of up to 90 days each (Sec. 105.3.2). Issued permit: 'Every permit issued shall become invalid unless the work authorized by such permit is commenced within six months after its issuance, or if the work authorized by such permit is suspended or abandoned for a period of six months after the time the work is commenced' (Sec. 105.4.1). Work is 'in active progress' when the permit has received an approved inspection within 180 days (Sec. 105.4.1.3). The Building Official may grant extensions of not more than 3 months each; the fee schedule caps permit extensions at 90 days each and at four requests. Extension fee $75.00 if no new codes are in effect, or 1% of valuation if new codes are in effect. If a permit expires, renewal requires the FULL permit fee in effect at renewal. 95% · ordinance (local FBC Ch.1 amendment)
• Which utility handles interconnection here? FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY (FPL). The Village does NOT own an electric utility. It owns and bills a WATER utility (and stormwater), which is the trap here - the Village's utility pages, customer portal and rate schedule are all water/stormwater. Six independent instruments settle electricity: (1) Code Appendix A, Article II is an ELECTRIC FRANCHISE - Ordinance No. 12-14, adopted 12 June 2014, granting FPL a 30-year non-exclusive electric franchise at 6.0% of billed retail revenues, repealing the 1984 Ordinance No. 331; (2) Section 6 of that ordinance is a NON-COMPETING FRANCHISE COVENANT - the Village 'agrees ... not to engage in the distribution and/or sale, in competition with the Grantee, of electric capacity and/or electric energy to any ultimate consumer of electric utility service'; (3) the franchise appendix's article list is a negative index of what the Village owns, and it contains BOTH a NATURAL GAS franchise (Peoples Gas System, a division of Tampa Electric, approved 9 Apr 2009) AND the electric franchise - you do not franchise yourself, so the Village owns neither; (4) Code Sec. 70-121 levies a 9% public service tax 'on each and every sale, in the village, of electricity', to be collected by 'the seller' and remitted to the Village - a municipal electric utility does not collect a utility tax from itself through a third-party seller; (5) the FY2026-27 budget carries commodity-split revenue lines 001-000-313.100 FRAN FEES-ELECTRIC $610,415 and 001-000-313.400 FRAN FEES - NATURAL GAS $3,219, plus 001-000-314.100 UTILITY TAX-ELECTRICITY $799,536 - and separately 301-000-314.300 UTILITY TAX-WATER $305,000 routed to the 301 fund, which is the Village's own water; (6) Tequesta is NOT a member of the Florida Municipal Power Agency (the FMPA members page lists 30+ Florida municipal electrics - Lake Worth Beach, Green Cove Springs, Mount Dora and so on - and Tequesta is not among them). The new-resident page is the seventh rung and points the same way: it names Water Service and Building Permits as Village functions and says nothing about electricity. 98% · codified franchise ordinance (Ord. 12-14, Sec. 6)
• Where does the utility sit in the sequence? Parallel, with a hard utility gate before energising. FPL's Electric Service Standards Section XIII (rev. 10-30-25) states 'All net metering systems require written approval and agreement from FPL' and 'It is highly recommended that customers obtain FPL's written interconnection approval prior to procuring any material.' Nothing in Tequesta's code or on its permit pages conditions the building/electrical permit on FPL approval, and nothing conditions FPL approval on the permit - the two run alongside each other, but the system cannot be energised until FPL has approved and the AHJ has passed final. For NEW CONSTRUCTION there is a Village-side meter gate: the 'Early (Meter) Power Release' form - the Village's electrical inspector signs the form authorising meter release, and 'Village of Tequesta Building Department will not release an electrical meter on newly constructed buildings without this form.' 85% · utility DG manual (ESS Section XIII, rev. 10-30-25)

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? Two answers, and they differ - record both. (a) STATE FLOOR: NEC 2020, adopted as Chapter 27 of the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023), which the Village's own Building Department page states is in force effective 1 January 2024. (b) LOCAL ADOPTION, whose literal words outrun the state: Code Sec. 14-61 - 'The most current edition of the National Electrical Code, of which copies have been and are now filed in the office of the building official of the village, is hereby adopted and incorporated as if set forth at length in this section' (Ord. No. 580, 8-12-2003; Ord. No. 5-12, 5-10-2012). That is a FLOATING local adoption with no year in it. Read literally it adopts NEC 2026; read as Florida practice it is NEC 2020 via the FBC. Sec. 14-31 does the same for the Florida Building Code itself ('The most current edition of the Florida Building Code ... is hereby adopted'). Work to NEC 2020 and confirm with the Building Official before relying on any later edition. 85% · adopting ordinance
• Which building code edition is in force? Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), effective January 1, 2024 - stated on the Village's own Building Department page. The codified adoption is floating: Sec. 14-31, 'The most current edition of the Florida Building Code ... is hereby adopted and incorporated as if set forth at length herein.' The Village's Early (Meter) Power Release form independently cites 'FBC 8th Edition, Chapter 1, Section 110.3'. 95% · department page + adopting ordinance
• Which fire code edition is in force? The Florida Fire Prevention Code, adopted by reference WITHOUT NAMING AN EDITION. Code Sec. 34-61: 'There is hereby adopted by the village ... that certain code known as the Florida Fire Prevention Code. (b) A copy of such code is on file with the village clerk, and such code is are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length in this section' (Ord. No. 16-12, 11-18-2012; Ord. No. 12-13, 7-11-2013). Enforced by the Village's own Fire-Rescue Department; Sec. 34-67: 'All permits required by the Florida Fire Prevention Code will be issued at the discretion of the chief of the fire-rescue department.' Because no edition is named, the state-adopted edition governs by default. 85% · adopting ordinance
• Are there local amendments to any of the above? Yes - and one of them is substantial. Sec. 14-32 is a 148,000-character local amendment to Chapter 1 (Administration) of the Florida Building Code, rewriting permit exemptions (105.2), application time limits (105.3.2), the 30-working-day single-family issuance duty (105.3.4), permit validity (105.4.1), fees (109) and the entire required-inspection list (110.3). Secs. 14-31, 14-61 and 34-61 are floating adoptions of the FBC, NEC and FFPC respectively. NONE of these amendments mentions solar or photovoltaics. Sec. 14-32 does carry one clause that matters to rooftop work generally: '102.8 Existing mechanical equipment. The Village of Tequesta may not require that existing mechanical equipment located on or above the surface of a roof be installed in compliance with the requirements of the Florida Building Code except during reroofing when the equipment is being replaced or moved during reroofing and is not in compliance with the provisions of the Florida Building Code relating to roof-mounted mechanical units.' 95% · ordinance
• What is the installation judged against? The National Electrical Code as adopted at Sec. 14-61 (see Q29 - NEC 2020 as the state floor via FBC 8th Edition Chapter 27, against a floating local adoption of 'the most current edition'), plus the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023), plus the Florida Fire Prevention Code, plus site-specific wind design to 2023 FBC Section 1609.1 at 170 mph Vult for a Risk Category II dwelling. Plan review disciplines the Village may apply are Zoning, Flood, Engineering, Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Electrical and Fire. FPL's Electric Service Standards Section XIII applies on top for anything touching the interconnection. 90% · adopting ordinance + department page

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

• What ridge setback and access pathways are required? No local ridge-setback or access-pathway rule. The Village adopts the Florida Fire Prevention Code by reference with no edition named and NO local amendment touching solar access pathways; 'photovoltaic' = 0 and 'solar' = 4 across the whole code, none of them in the fire chapter. Pathways and ridge setbacks therefore come from the Florida Fire Prevention Code / NFPA 1 as adopted statewide and from the FBC, not from Tequesta. Fire review is one of the Village's own plan-review disciplines and the Village's own Fire-Rescue Department enforces it; Sec. 34-62 directs the chief to inspect 'all buildings and premises ... EXCEPT THE INTERIOR OF DWELLING UNITS'. 85% · adopting ordinance

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, by adoption rather than by any local rule: NEC 690.12 rapid shutdown applies through the Village's adoption of the NEC. Which edition's version applies carries the Q29 ambiguity - the state floor is NEC 2020 (690.12 module-level, 80 V within 1 ft of the array boundary, 30 V outside), while Sec. 14-61's literal words adopt 'the most current edition'. 'Rapid shutdown' appears 0 times in the Village code; there is no local amendment, no local placard wording and no Broward-style early local mandate here. 85% · adopting ordinance

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 Village itself specifies NONE. Every placard requirement on a Tequesta job comes from two places outside the Village: (1) the NEC as adopted (690.13(B), 690.56(C), 705.10, 705.12 etc.); (2) FPL's Electric Service Standards Section XIII (rev. 10-30-25), which requires two placards for every net-metered system - at the INTERCONNECTING METER CAN: 'WARNING / MULTI POWER SOURCES / ENTER SOURCES HERE / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS'; and at the DER DISCONNECT SWITCH: 'GENERATION SYSTEM AC DISCONNECT / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS'. Where a battery is present FPL adds a third: 'A placard must be permanently affixed to the meter enclosure stating "Battery storage utilized in this facility."' 90% · utility DG manual (ESS Section XIII)
• Does the authority specify placard wording of its own? No. The Village of Tequesta specifies no placard wording of its own. There is no solar labelling provision, no local NEC amendment on labelling and no wording on any Village checklist or form. The wording that applies comes from the NEC as adopted and from FPL. 90% · adopting ordinance (absence)
• Does it specify letter height, colour or material? Not by the Village - it specifies no letter height, colour or material. FPL does specify material and lettering method, though not size or colour: 'All labels must be permanent and weatherproof/UV resistant placard with ENGRAVED letters. The customer is responsible for all labeling requirements.' The same 'permanent and weatherproof/UV resistant placard with engraved letters' formula recurs throughout FPL's Electric Service Standards for meter and switch labelling generally. No letter height and no colour scheme is given in either source; NEC 110.21(B) / 690.13 default rules therefore govern those. 90% · utility DG manual
• Is a site plan / facility map placard required, and what must it show? Not required by the Village. There is no local facility-map or site-plan placard rule. What applies is NEC 690.56(C) as adopted (permanent plaque or directory at the service equipment for a PV system with rapid shutdown), plus FPL's requirement that 'Meter numbers associated with interconnecting premise must be included in Single Line Diagrams (SLD) and/or plans' and, for Tier 2/3 systems, that 'Plans must show dimensions between the location of the meter socket and the DER disconnect switch.' Those are plan-set requirements rather than placards. 85% · utility DG manual + adopting ordinance
• Does the UTILITY specify placards beyond the AHJ's? Yes - and FPL's are the ONLY placards specified by name on a Tequesta job. Three placards, all 'permanent and weatherproof/UV resistant placard with engraved letters': (1) at the INTERCONNECTING METER CAN - 'WARNING / MULTI POWER SOURCES / ENTER SOURCES HERE / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS'; (2) at the DER DISCONNECT SWITCH (Tier 2/3, or any line-side tap) - 'GENERATION SYSTEM AC DISCONNECT / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS'; (3) where battery storage is installed behind the meter - 'A placard must be permanently affixed to the meter enclosure stating "Battery storage utilized in this facility."' Note the practical consequence for a Tier 1 (<=10 kW) rooftop system with no line-side tap: there is no DER disconnect switch, so placard (2) has nothing to attach to and only the meter-can placard applies. 90% · utility DG manual (ESS Section XIII C.1, rev. 10-30-25)
• Where must the labels be placed? FPL locates them precisely: 'The following labels must be installed at the interconnecting meter can and the DER disconnect switch', and the battery placard 'must be permanently affixed to the meter enclosure'. The DER disconnect switch itself (Tier 2/3, or any line-side tap) 'must be installed separate from, but adjacent to, the FPL meter socket within 10 feet of the meter socket and must always remain unrestricted and accessible to FPL personnel ... There shall be no locked gates, doors or fences between the meter socket and the DER disconnect switch.' The Village specifies no placement of its own; NEC placement rules apply on top. 90% · utility DG manual

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? FPL rules, and the answer turns on TIER and on TAP POINT. (a) TIER: 'All tier 2 and tier 3 systems require an FPL approved visually open Distributed Energy Resource (DER) disconnect switch to allow safe restoration of FPL's system.' Tier 1 is 'less than or equal to 10 KW' AC inverter rating - so a typical residential rooftop system needs NO utility disconnect, no fee, no insurance and no FPL placard on the switch. FPL's own requirements page states the same boundary from the other side: 'FPL requires a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Disconnect Switch (on the AC side of the inverter) for all DER installations ranging from 10kW to 2MW.' (b) TAP POINT overrides tier: 'FPL recommends that all interconnections will be performed on the load side of the customer's main electrical panel. If the interconnection is performed on the line side of the customers main electrical panel (per NEC) a MANUAL AC DISCONNECT IS REQUIRED between AC generation output and the point of interconnection to FPL facilities.' So a line-side tap pulls in a disconnect even on a sub-10 kW system; a load-side breaker tie does not. (c) WHERE, when required: 'mounted separate from but adjacent to the FPL meter socket within 10 feet and must always remain accessible to FPL ... There shall be no locked gates, doors or fences between the meter socket and the DER disconnect switch.' FPL's conceptual drawing is annotated 'NO GREATER THAN 10 FT FROM DER DISCONNECT SWITCH TO UTILITY METER'. (d) WHAT KIND: visible-open (blades, jaws and air gap visible to an operator, not obscured by any dead-front or arc-shield), lockable in the open position, must accept a 3/8" FPL padlock shank on the cover hasp, not modified to accept an FPL lock, enclosure grounded, blades de-energised when open per NEC 404.6(C), listed to UL/ANSI/IEEE and installed per the NEC. FPL 'reserves the right to lock open the DER utility disconnect switch without prior notice'. (e) The Village of Tequesta specifies no disconnect location of its own. 90% · utility DG manual (ESS Section XIII, rev. 10-30-25)
• Must equipment be on a specific approved list? Not by the Village as a list, but yes in substance via two routes. (1) FPL: '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.' Under the Small Generation Interconnection Agreement route FPL requires certification 'to the latest version of IEEE 1547 and UL 1741 (SB Preferred) ... by a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL)'. Battery storage 'must have a certification conducted by a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) to the current UL 1741 standard'; non-certified batteries 'must be DC coupled behind a UL 1741 listed device'. (2) The Village: 'Submit electronic copy of appropriate Florida product approvals and/or Miami-Dade Notices of Acceptance (NOA)' - Florida Product Approval is the operative list for building-envelope components; Tequesta is NOT in the HVHZ, so the Miami-Dade NOA is an accepted alternative rather than a requirement. 90% · utility DG manual + department page
• Are batteries permitted, and under what conditions? Yes, permitted - and the whole rulebook is FPL's plus the FBC/NEC, because the Village code is silent. 'energy storage' = 0, 'battery' appears 6 times in the entire code and none concerns ESS. FPL's Section XIII C: batteries for personal use behind the meter must be NRTL-certified to UL 1741; a placard must be permanently affixed to the meter enclosure reading 'Battery storage utilized in this facility'; where a battery is integrated with customer-owned renewable generation, 'Energy stored by the battery is only for the customer's use ... at this time the customer may not export power from the battery to the grid'; a battery installed WITHOUT renewable generation as emergency backup 'may be charged from the electrical grid. No interconnection agreement is required', with the customer responsible for preventing back-feed; a battery designed to charge from the grid and operate interconnected requires notification to FPL and, in the interim, a Small Generator Interconnection Application. 'Stand-alone battery storage systems are not included in the definition of "renewable energy" pursuant to Rule 25-6.065(2)(d), Florida Administrative Code, and the output from such systems is not net metered.' 90% · utility DG manual (ESS Section XIII C)
• Is there a separate ESS permit or inspection? No separate ESS permit type is published, and none is codified. A battery is permitted and inspected as electrical (and, where it involves a structure or attachment, building) work under the ordinary FBC/NEC route - the Appendix C table lists 'Electrical installations and repairs' and 'Generators and transfer switches' but no ESS line. I could not enumerate the BS&A permit-type picklist to check for an 'ESS' type because the applicant flow is behind a sign-in wall. 70% · codified fee schedule + published checklists
• Is a ground mount treated as a structure? YES - and more than one rule catches it. (a) The zoning definition of 'Structure' (Sec. 78-4) is broad: 'a walled and roofed building that is principally above ground, a manufactured home, a gas or liquid storage tank, or other manmade facility or infrastructure, or that which is built or constructed; or an edifice or building of any kind or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner.' A ground-mount rack is squarely inside that. (b) As an ACCESSORY structure it takes the accessory-structure limits in the Sec. 78-143 Schedule of Site Requirements: in R-1A, side 10 ft, rear 10 ft, front 25 ft, max 1 story / 15 ft; in R-1, side 7.5 ft, rear 10 ft, front 25 ft, max 1 story / 15 ft. Maximum lot coverage in both is 37% and minimum landscaped open space 30%. (c) It is NOT on the closed accessory-use list at Sec. 78-172(c)/78-173(c), so it depends on the Community Development Director's 'similar use' determination (see Q27). (d) Sec. 78-285 requires solar collectors to be sited so as not to be conspicuous from public streets or adjoining properties. (e) Any inverter, battery or similar gear on the ground is caught by Sec. 78-299 - 'emergency generators, air conditioning equipment, pool equipment AND SIMILAR MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT' - which applies in all residential districts and requires: not in any front yard, no closer than 5 ft to any side or rear lot line, screened from public view and from abutting properties with opaque screening or compliant vegetation no more than 6 ft high, with the equipment not protruding above the screening; equipment over 6 ft high must meet the accessory-structure setbacks at Sec. 78-143. Sec. 78-299 expressly 'does not apply to roof top mounted equipment'. (f) Site-specific sealed wind engineering is required for 'ground mounted equipment'. (g) If a tree must come out, Ch. 50 Art. VII applies and removal of a designated historic, specimen, native or endangered tree requires a hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board. 85% · codified ordinance
• Is there a local rule on service upgrades or busbar sizing? No local rule. There is no busbar, service-upgrade or 120%-rule amendment anywhere in the code - NEC 705.12 governs unamended. Practically, the Village does treat a service change as its own permitted event: the Appendix C table of work requiring a permit lists 'Service Panel changes' as a separate line, and the Village publishes an ELECTRIC PANEL PERMIT SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS checklist requiring a riser diagram and load calculations. So a PV job that includes a panel or service change will attract that checklist's requirements. 85% · published checklist + codified fee schedule
• Is a specific mounting system or attachment spacing required? No local mounting or attachment-spacing rule. Nothing in the code prescribes a mounting system, rail spacing or fastener pattern for PV. What governs instead is the engineering gate: signed and sealed engineered plans for every solar permit, with site-specific wind design criteria for roof-mounted and ground-mounted equipment to 2023 FBC 1609.1 at 170 mph Vult (Risk Category II). Attachment is therefore determined by the sealed design, not by a published local standard. 85% · department page + published 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? Portal, phone or email - three routes, all published. 'To schedule an inspection, please use the online portal, email or call us at 561-768-0450.' The BS&A portal has a dedicated Schedule an Inspection function. Required information: job address, permit number, type of inspection, contact name and telephone number. 95% · department page
• How much notice is required? By 3:00 p.m. the day before. 'The cut off time for inspections is by 3 p.m. the day before the intended inspection day.' Repeated on the same page for virtual inspections: 'Schedule your inspections by 3 p.m. the day before the intended inspection day on BS&A portal or by calling 561-768-0450.' Contractors are encouraged to schedule for the day the work is being performed. 95% · department page
• Are same-day or AM/PM windows offered? No same-day service and no exact times for field inspections: 'Inspections are performed Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 12 noon. It is not possible to schedule exact inspection times.' AM/PM windows exist only on the VIRTUAL inspection route: 'You will have the chance to choose between two timeframes, morning or afternoon.' After-hours inspections are available at a price - $75.00 per hour, two-hour minimum. Note for solar: virtual inspection eligibility is an explicit list - Roofs, Windows and Door, Water Heater Change out, AC Change out, Signs - and SOLAR IS NOT ON IT, so a PV final must be a physical visit. 95% · department page

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 Village performs its own inspections through its own Building Department, with a named Building Inspector/Plans Examiner (Matthew Cawley) in the Village staff directory. Note a directory inconsistency worth knowing: the Building Department page's contact block lists only the Building Director, the Building & Business Relations Officer and the Permits Coordinators - the inspector appears only in the Village-wide staff directory. The budget carries a $40,000 'INSPECTION SERVICES' contractual line (101-180-531.325) alongside $833,390 of personal services, so some inspection capacity is bought in, but the department is not outsourced. 90% · staff directory + budget
• If delegated, to whom? Not delegated. No part of building, electrical or fire inspection is delegated to Palm Beach County or to any other government. Two optional private routes exist at the applicant's election, not the Village's: (a) a PRIVATE PROVIDER under FS 553.791 - the Village publishes the state form 'Notice to Building Official of Use of Private Provider' (Form 61G20-2.005-2002-01, Rule 61G20-2.005 FAC, effective January 1, 2025) with checkboxes for Plans Review and/or Inspections, and the fee schedule provides 'The Village shall calculate a reduced fee for permits when the owner or contractor uses a private provider to perform plan review and inspections'; (b) the $40,000 contracted inspection-services budget line. 90% · department form + fee schedule

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? The codified required-inspection list is Sec. 14-32 (FBC 110.3 as locally amended). ELECTRICAL, in order: 1. Underground inspection (after trenches/ditches excavated, conduit or cable installed, before backfill); 2. Rough-in inspection (after roof, framing, fireblocking and bracing in place and prior to installation of wall or ceiling membranes); 3. Final inspection ('after the building electrical system is complete, all required electrical fixtures are in place and properly connected or protected, and the structure is ready for occupancy'). BUILDING, relevant stages for a rooftop retrofit: 3. Sheathing inspection (roof/wall sheathing and fasteners, roof/wall dry-in); 5. Roofing inspection, 'at a minimum ... in at least two inspections' covering dry-in, insulation, roof coverings, flashing and sheathing; 6. Final inspection, 'after the building, including all sub-trade inspections, is completed'. The Building Official 'shall determine the timing and sequencing of when inspections occur and what elements are inspected at each inspection', and may require 'any other such inspection as deemed necessary'. In practice a rooftop PV retrofit is a building/roof attachment inspection plus an electrical final. ONE DISCREPANCY WORTH CARRYING: the Village's own Early (Meter) Power Release form cites 'FBC 8th Edition, Chapter 1, Section 110.3 Required Inspections, B. Electrical 4. Power release inspection' - a fourth electrical inspection that does NOT appear in the Village's own codified 110.3 list, which stops at three. 90% · ordinance (local FBC 110.3)
• Is a rough-in or mid-roof inspection required? A rough-in electrical inspection is in the codified list generally, but its trigger is concealment - 'To be made after the roof, framing, fireblocking and bracing is in place and prior to the installation of wall or ceiling membranes.' On a typical rooftop PV retrofit nothing is concealed behind new wall or ceiling membrane, so the rough-in stage has no work to inspect and the job runs to final. There is no 'mid-roof' inspection named anywhere in the Village's code or on its pages; the roofing inspection is instead required 'at a minimum ... in at least two inspections' (dry-in and coverings), which is the closest analogue. The Building Official retains authority to require partial inspections - the fee schedule prices them at $50.00 each, 'must be paid prior to any further inspections being scheduled'. 75% · ordinance + fee schedule

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 - not for inspections. The Village publishes 25+ permit SUBMITTAL checklists (solar, roof, electric panel, generator, pool, seawall, fence, driveway and so on), but these tell you what to file, not what the inspector checks. There is no published inspection checklist, inspection guide or field-inspection criteria document of any kind on the Building Department's pages or in its forms library. The only field-facing document the Village publishes is the Early (Meter) Power Release form, and that is an agreement with conditions rather than a checklist. 85% · department page (forms library)
• What must be on site at inspection? Partially published. (a) FBC 110.1 as locally amended: 'construction or work shall remain exposed and provided with access for inspection purposes until approved ... It shall be the duty of the owner or the owner's authorized agent to cause the work to remain exposed and provided with access for inspection purposes.' (b) A foundation/form board survey 'shall be available at the job site for review by the building inspector' where required. (c) For the power-release inspection specifically the Village is emphatic: 'This form must be completed and left on site for the Electrical Inspector at the time of the Early Power Release inspection ... If the inspection passed but there is no form on site, the inspector will fail the inspection and leave a correction notice on site indicating the lack of a completed release form ... Please be aware that no release forms will be accepted at the office at any time.' (d) The fee schedule prices a 'Lost permit card or lost plans fee $40.00', which implies the permit card and approved plans are expected to be on site. No solar-specific on-site document list is published. 80% · ordinance + department form + fee schedule

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 Completion for work that does not create a new occupancy - the fee schedule reads 'Certificate of occupancy - Certificate of completion (included in permit price)', so there is no separate charge. In the public portal the resulting record status is 'FINALED', with a 'Last Inspection' date recorded against the permit. Temporary CO for a residence is $50.00; temporary CO/COC commercial and multi-family is $150.00. 85% · fee schedule + permit portal records
• Who notifies the utility for PTO? Split, and not codified locally for PV. FPL is the gatekeeper for PTO: 'All net metering systems require written approval and agreement from FPL', the customer or contractor applies through FPL's net metering application (netmetering@fpl.com is the published contact), and FPL 'will replace your electric meter with one that measures excess power supplied to the grid'. Nothing in Tequesta's code, permit pages or checklists imposes a duty on the Village to notify FPL after a PV final, and no such duty is published. What the Village DOES hold is the meter-release gate on NEW CONSTRUCTION: under the Early (Meter) Power Release form the Village's electrical inspector signs the form and returns it to the office 'authorizing the meter release', and 'Village of Tequesta Building Department will not release an electrical meter on newly constructed buildings without this form.' For a PV retrofit on an existing service the meter already exists, so that route does not apply and PTO is FPL's process on the installer's application. 80% · utility page + department form
• Is there a re-inspection fee? $100.00 flat for a re-inspection, escalating to $400.00. Verbatim: 'Re-inspection fees for rejection of work due to faulty construction, work not ready, failure to call for inspection, work covered up, work not per plans, and/or no access (lifts/ladders) to jobsite: Flat fee $100.00.' And: 'After an initial inspection and one subsequent re-inspection for the same code violation specifically and continuously noted in each rejection, each subsequent re-inspection shall be $400.00 each per F.S. 553.80(2)(c).' Also: 'Required inspections are included within regular building permit fees'; partial inspections $50.00 each, payable before any further inspections are scheduled; special (courtesy) inspections where no permit fee has been generated $50.00; after-hours inspections $75.00 per hour, two-hour minimum. 95% · fee schedule
• How are corrections issued and cleared? Two mechanisms, both published. (a) PLAN REVIEW corrections: 'all plan review comments must be addressed in narrative form and plan corrections must be clouded on the drawings for re-review. Failure to cloud plan corrections will result in longer re-review time periods.' Each review after the third rejected for a previously noted violation is charged at four times the normal fee per FS 553.80(2)(b). (b) FIELD corrections: the inspector leaves a correction notice on site - 'the inspector will leave the form with a correction notice indicating the corrections needed ... The contractor must reschedule the inspection when corrections are completed.' Status is then visible in BS&A without logging in. Codified: on any failed inspection the Building Official 'shall notify the permit holder or his or her agent of any violations which must be corrected in order to comply with the technical codes.' 90% · department page + department form + ordinance