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The document issued when a completed project passes final inspections and may legally be occupied.
The CO closes the permit lifecycle: application, review, issuance, inspections, final, occupancy. For permit watchers the CO is the least useful signal — by the time it issues, the trade work is done — but it confirms a project's true completion in the public record.
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