The division has a staff 15 full-time and part-time positions. Its responsibilities include developing and monitoring administrative policies and procedures, providing personnel, accounting, budgeting, procurement, sales, and customer service support. The administrative division is also responsible for processing application for tradesman and contractor licensing, administering examinations for certificates of competency and eligibility.
Contractor Licensing Section
The Contractor Licensing Section processes license applications for tradesman and contractors in 6 major categories. They are Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, LP Gas, Building and Building Specialty trades.
We issue 110 different types of licenses within these categories. The Construction Trades Qualifying Board has authority over the types of licenses and scopes of licenses we issue and we are governed by Chapter 10 of the Miami-Dade County Code.
Our responsibilities include the processing of new applications (Personal or Business), processing renewal applications (Personal or Business), Change of Affiliation, place licenses in voluntary Inactive Status, Reciprocity, and administering examinations.
The Contractor Licensing section has a tremendous amount of public contact with the construction industry and the general public. Every attempt to focus on delivering the best quality of service possible to our customers
We offer several publications for sale in our office; they include Chapter 10 of the County Code, Chapter 8 of the County Code, and the Florida Building Code, which replaced the South Florida Building Code as of January 1, 2002. You may purchase these items by calling our main telephone number (305) 375-2901, or you can use the order form below to order by mail.
The Florida Building Code is available in binder form or on searchable CD-ROM. Other publications available from out office include our Newsletter and Testing Application Standards. For a complete list, you may view or print our publications list, available here in Adobe Acrobat format. (You must have Acrobat installed on your PC in order to open this file.)
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