Design Professional Digital Signature Affidavit – Cape Coral, FL

The Design Professional Digital Signature Affidavit is a City of Cape Coral Building Division form in which a design professional authorizes the City to accept electronically submitted documents that carry the seal and digital signature shown on the form.\n\nThe form says that once documents arrive through City of Cape Coral ePlan, uploaded by any eTRAKiT user, and bear the seal and signature on the affidavit, the City will assume the Undersigned authorized them. For that reason the form places on the Undersigned the obligation to keep the signature information in a secure environment.\n\nThe affidavit has four parts of text: an Authorization, a Termination clause, a Governing Law clause and a certification that willful falsification of any information is grounds for disqualification. It also records the applicant's name, company, design professional license number, phone and email; the email listed becomes the applicant's "Authorized Email Address".\n\nElectronic signing and sealing is governed by Florida law. The form cites Florida Statutes Chapter 471.025, 481.221 and 668.001-006, with Chapter 481 and Florida Administrative Rule 61G1-16.005 for architects, and Chapter 471 and Florida Administrative Code Rule 61G15-23.003 for engineers. The form is not a permit application and does not itself authorize construction.

The form is addressed to design professionals: the title line reads "Engineers, architects, land architects, surveyors." A design professional who wants the City of Cape Coral Building Division to accept documents electronically under that professional's seal and digital signature completes and signs it.\n\n- The Authorization text is written for an architect or engineer (the "Undersigned"), and the Governing Law clause names the Florida rules that apply to architects and to engineers.\n- The form covers documents uploaded to City of Cape Coral ePlan by any eTRAKiT user, so the design professional whose seal and signature appear is the one who signs it, not the uploader.\n- A design professional who believes the security of the digital signature has been compromised, or who simply wants to stop using it, does not file a new affidavit but sends the written termination notice described on the form.\n\nThe form does not say that anyone may sign for the design professional: the declaration under penalties of perjury must be hand signed by the Design Professional.

The form sets one timing rule: the original hand-signed document must be received in the Building Division office before any permits are issued. The document may be submitted electronically first, but the hand-signed original still has to arrive before issuance.\n\nThe form states no other due date and no expiration date for the authorization itself. It does record the validity end date of the digital signature, which you enter in the digital signature block.\n\nTermination follows its own trigger. If you believe the security of the digital signature has been compromised, or you wish to stop using it, you must file a written termination notice with the Building Division. The City may also end an authorization to submit documents to ePlan, with good cause and without notice, at its discretion.

The form says it may be submitted electronically, and that the original hand-signed copy must be received in the City's office before any permits are issue. The form names no portal for the affidavit itself.\n\n- Electronic copy: the form allows the document to be submitted electronically; it does not give a separate upload address for it. Documents sealed under the affidavit are later uploaded through City of Cape Coral ePlan.\n- Original hand-signed copy: City of Cape Coral Building Division, 1015 Cultural Park Blvd., Cape Coral, FL 33990. Phone (239) 574-0546.\n- Email contact printed on the form: [email protected].\n- Termination notice: to end the authorization, send a written notice to the Building Division at the same street address, or to [email protected].\n\nFillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the City's channels above. Ask the Building Division at (239) 574-0546 about any step the form does not cover.