Palmetto Bay is a village with its own Building & Permitting Division at Village Hall, 9705 East Hibiscus Street. For expired permits issued before 2002, the village tells owners to check with the Miami-Dade County Building Department instead. That matters for any house whose roof, shutters or additions were permitted in the 1990s or earlier, including repairs after Hurricane Andrew in 1992: those records sit with the county, not the village.
The village lien search reflects the split. It covers open and expired permits with both Miami-Dade County and Palmetto Bay, open code enforcement violations, pending stormwater and burglar alarm fees, and Certificates of Use and Business Tax Receipts. Palmetto Bay treats an expired permit as a violation against the property and holds the current owner responsible for resolving it. If you sell to us, we read the search with you and can buy with expired permits still open, taking on the close-out ourselves.