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 Tampa Bay
Downtown Tampa and the Water Street district have added a wave of new office, hotel and residential towers; Westshore remains the region’s largest office market; Tampa General, Moffitt and BayCare run major hospital campuses; the University of South Florida and Tampa International Airport each operate dozens of units. Across the bay, St. Petersburg and the Gulf beaches carry a large stock of older condominium towers now facing Florida’s post-Surfside milestone inspection and reserve requirements.
All of it sits under DBPR’s annual-inspection rule and the July 31 certificate renewal. New towers need acceptance inspections and fresh maintenance agreements negotiated from a position of knowledge; older condominiums need honest modernization timelines that boards can fund.
How we help Tampa Bay 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 Tampa 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.
- Acceptance inspection oversight and maintenance contract negotiation for new towers
- Annual DBPR inspections and violation closeout by QEI-licensed inspectors
- Condominium modernization planning aligned with reserve studies
- Hospital and campus compliance programs with portfolio-level reporting
- Owner representation on escalator and elevator disputes at airport and venue properties
Nearby communities
St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Westshore, Brandon, Lakeland, Sarasota and Bradenton.
Regulatory summary based on the agency sources below; requirements change, so confirm current rules with the agency or with us before relying on them.