115 S. Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Ph. 954-831-4000

Important Information

 DR-219 Forms No Longer Required -- pdf (36k)
 Notary Fees Have Increased -- pdf (12k)
 Quarterly Office Closings
 To Remove or Block information from Public Record
 Special Magistrate Appraiser Application -- pdf (27k)
 Special Magistrate Attorney Application -- pdf (26k)

The Archives Section is a secured internal function which allows County agencies to send or retrieve records to/from the County Records Center.

In Document Control and Minutes, you will find information pertaining to the business function of County Government. Code of Ordinances, Resolutions, Commission Meeting Agendas and backup, and minutes of previous Commission meetings are located in this section.

At the Download Index File, you can download (free) the indices to all documents indexed and released during the previous 10 business days. You can also download indices to documents recently recorded and not yet indexed.

Under Recording, you will find information about recording documents such as deeds, declarations of domicile, foreign judgments, and domestic partnership registration, including tips for document preparation and forms.

In Search and Copy, you will find an online index and corresponding images of the Official Records of Broward County from 1978-present. Images can be viewed and printed. We will be adding the images of documents recorded earlier, as time goes by, and hope to have our entire library of documents, from 1883-present available in image form in the near future.

Value Adjustment Board (VAB) contains information pertaining to the process by which a property owner can, through a petition and hearing procedure, challenge the valuation, exemption, or classification assigned to the property. The valuation, exemption, or classification forms the basis used to calculate the taxes imposed on the property.

The Work Status page will allow you to see what we're working on today and what documents we are returning to their owners.

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