Chapter 01 — What the City asks for, and when
A notary sets the deadline.
The application is signed complete, not signed and then completed
Lauderdale Lakes publishes a short and specific requirement about how a permit application reaches it: the application "must be completed and notarized and all supporting documents must accompany the application". Two clauses, and the second is the one that changes how a project is run.
Notarisation is a witnessed signature. It happens at a particular moment, in front of a particular person, and it attaches to the document as it stands. Once the City has said the supporting documents must accompany the application, the practical consequence is that everything has to be assembled BEFORE the signature rather than filed alongside it afterwards.
That sounds administrative. It is actually the single most useful thing to know about scheduling a project here, because it moves the point of no return earlier than most owners expect. The familiar pattern — file what you have, send the rest when the reviewer asks — does not fit a package that was sworn as complete.
Everything else on this page that is not about that requirement is Broward-wide or code-level, and it is labelled that way. Lauderdale Lakes publishes less about its own procedure than some of its neighbours do, and inventing local detail to fill the gap would be worse than saying so.

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Completed and notarised
The City states the permit application "must be completed and notarized". A notary witnesses a signature on a document as it stands, which is what makes the next line matter so much.
All of them, with it
"All supporting documents must accompany the application." Not follow it. The package is assembled to completion before anybody signs anything.
A path, not a menu
The City describes field inspection as following "a specific path as per the Florida Building Code until the project is" complete. Which inspections apply to your scope is the Building Division’s to say.





























