elevator regulation at a glance
- Regulator
- Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), Division of Hotels and Restaurants, Bureau of Elevator Safety
- Statute
- Chapter 399, Florida Statutes; Rule Chapter 61C-5, Florida Administrative Code
- Who inspects
- Certified private third-party inspectors; a current, satisfactory inspection is required for the initial certificate and each annual renewal
- Frequency
- Annual: every non-exempt conveyance must pass an inspection with no violations each year
- Certificate
- Certificate of operation per conveyance, $75 per year; all certificates expire July 31; $50 late fee from August 1; ownership change filed within 30 days
- Local programs
- Contracted jurisdictions (including Miami-Dade and Broward counties) run their own permitting and inspection programs
Elevator compliance in Miami
Brickell, Downtown, Edgewater, Sunny Isles, Miami Beach and Coral Gables are dense with condominium and hotel towers, many of them 40 to 60 stories and many of them now old enough that the original equipment is at the end of its life. Add Jackson and Baptist hospital campuses, the University of Miami, the Port of Miami and Miami International Airport’s escalators and moving walks, and you have one of the most demanding vertical-transportation markets in the country.
Florida’s DBPR rules apply, but Miami-Dade County is among the jurisdictions that operate their own elevator permitting and inspection programs, so permits, inspections and fees for many buildings run through the county rather than Tallahassee. After the 2021 Surfside collapse, Florida condominium boards also face milestone structural inspections and reserve-study requirements; elevators sit squarely in the capital plans those studies force boards to write.
How we help Miami owners and boards
Elevator Compliance Group is an independent, QEI-licensed inspection and consulting firm. We do not sell maintenance, repairs or modernization, so our work in Miami is only for the owner: inspections and inspection witnessing, review of inspection reports and violations, deficiency tracking to verified correction, maintenance contract review, modernization planning and owner representation when the contractor and the inspector disagree.
- Annual inspections and test witnessing by QEI-licensed inspectors, state or county program
- Modernization planning and bid management for aging tower equipment, independent of any manufacturer
- Maintenance contract review for condominium associations before renewal
- Violation tracking across multi-tower associations and hotel portfolios
- Owner representation when the contractor’s proposal and the inspector’s report disagree
Nearby communities
Miami Beach, Brickell, Coral Gables, Doral, Aventura, Sunny Isles Beach, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton.
Regulatory summary based on the agency sources below; requirements change, so confirm current rules with the agency or with us before relying on them.