Notice of Commencement · Lien waivers · Construction e-signatures
NOC Signatures is the document-focused e-signature tool for U.S. contractors. Create a Florida-compliant Notice of Commencement, send it to the property owner for signing, and download the completed PDF, ready for notarization and recording — all in under two minutes. Statutory § 713.20 lien waivers (conditional & unconditional, progress & final) work the same way.
NOC Signatures is not a general-purpose e-signature tool with construction templates bolted on. Every document type is a purpose-built form with the fields the statute or the county actually asks for, so there is nothing to lay out and no signature boxes to drag.
Florida Statute § 713.13 requires a recorded Notice of Commencement for most direct contracts over $2,500. The NOC is recorded with the Clerk of the Circuit Court in the county where the property sits, and a certified copy must be posted at the jobsite before the first inspection. An owner who pays without a properly recorded NOC can end up paying twice for the same work if a subcontractor or supplier goes unpaid, and a building department can refuse the inspection outright.
Counties do not agree on what the form should look like. Many publish their own version with their own layout, their own notary block, and their own margins, and a clerk can reject a filing on the wrong form. NOC Signatures stamps your data onto the recording county's actual PDF so what you hand the clerk is the form they expect.
Florida prescribes the exact wording of four lien waiver forms, and a waiver that departs from the statutory text can be challenged. Each is a different trade-off between getting paid and giving up rights:
Electronic signatures are enforceable under the federal E-SIGN Act (15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.) and, in Florida, the Uniform Electronic Transaction Act (Fla. Stat. § 668.50). Both give an electronic signature the same legal effect as a handwritten one, provided the signer intended to sign and the record is retained in a form that can be accurately reproduced. Every signature captured here records the signer's drawn mark, printed name, title, timestamp, IP address, and user-agent, alongside SHA-256 hashes of the original and signed PDFs in an append-only audit trail. Signed downloads carry a Certificate of Completion and a certifying seal that makes any later edit detectable.
If you have a direct contract with the owner and the improvement is worth more than $2,500, § 713.13 requires one. The threshold is a common exception for small repairs, and there are narrower exceptions for some direct-contract HVAC replacements. When in doubt, record it — the cost of recording is trivial next to the cost of a failed inspection or a double-payment claim.
Yes. Fla. Stat. § 668.50 gives an electronic signature the same force as ink. The signed NOC still has to be notarized and recorded with the county clerk — e-signing removes the drive to the jobsite, not the recording requirement.
Every one of Florida's 67 counties has a page here with its clerk, county seat, and recording specifics. Where a county publishes its own NOC form, we stamp onto that exact form; elsewhere we generate a statewide § 713.13-compliant NOC that any Florida clerk will accept.
Unless the NOC states a longer period, it is effective for one year from recording. If the job runs past that, the owner records an amended or new NOC. Work performed after the NOC expires is not covered by it.
The Florida NOC generator is free with no signup and no watermark. An account adds county-specific forms, e-signature with a full audit trail, signed-PDF storage, and the other construction documents.
This page is general information about construction notices and electronic signatures — not legal advice. Requirements vary by state, county, and project. Consult a licensed construction attorney about your situation.