An owner-builder permit places the property owner in a different role from a project filed by a licensed contractor. California jurisdictions may require owner-builder acknowledgments, declarations, identity verification, or agent authorization before a permit is issued.
The guided flow records who is applying and includes or identifies the configured owner-builder documents for the city. Legal acknowledgments, certifications, initials, identity verification and signatures remain with the property owner.
When a property owner authorizes someone else to act for an owner-builder project, the permitting authority may require a separate authorization. Form-O-Matic surfaces these city-specific steps where configured rather than treating every applicant role as the same.
Local rules differ, so Form-O-Matic treats each supported city as a separate permit workflow.