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8 Children Die in Fire in Building with Code Violations

Posted on: August 28, 2018

Yesterday I had the privilege of teaching Advanced Legal Aspects of Code Enforcement for Property Maintenance Inspectors for the Missouri Association of Code Enforcement at Lake of the […]

Building Codes / Code Enforcement / Court cases / Ordinances / Politics and building codes / property maintenance / rental inspections

Same old excuses

Posted on: August 5, 2018

Having prosecuted many owner/landlords, I have heard lots of excuses for the violations on their properties but they are all very similar.  I started pondering this after reading […]

Building Codes / Code Enforcement / Court cases / Law Enforcement and Codes / Ordinances / property maintenance

Contempt of court – a powerful enforcement tool

Posted on: April 14, 2018

What can be done when a defendant refuses to obey a court order, whether it’s fixing up properties or turning over documents?  The solution is the contempt power […]

Building Codes / Code Enforcement / Court cases / Politics / Politics and building codes / property maintenance

Inspectors reach settlement in retaliation case

Posted on: February 11, 2015February 11, 2015

Moreno Valley, CA spent $1.2 million dollars in a settlement after employees alleged that they were retaliated against for following the law and pursuing code cases. A former building official and code […]

Building Codes / Code Enforcement / Court cases / Fire Prevention / Law Enforcement and Codes / Liability / property maintenance

German architect sentenced to jail after firefighter dies

Posted on: January 18, 2014

Criminal prosecutions are rare in the field of building code enforcement but when there is a high profile death that results from shoddy construction, indictments do happen.  Recently […]

Building Codes / Code Enforcement / Fire Prevention / Ordinances / Politics / Politics and building codes / property maintenance / rental inspections

Cycle of complacency and outrage continues

Posted on: April 24, 2013

In my last couple of Tweets, I pointed inspectors to articles involving the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West Texas and a tragic fire in England.  It’s […]

Code Enforcement / Foreclosure / property maintenance

Compliance Connections assists inspectors

Posted on: April 16, 2013

The Illinois Association of Code Enforcement group does a lot of informative programming for its members.  Recently I had the pleasure of attending a day of training and […]

Code Enforcement / Foreclosure / property maintenance

HUD contact for property management

Posted on: February 14, 2013

One of the inspectors I work with shared this with me about contact information for a property management company taking care of properties for HUD. HUD has established […]

Code Enforcement / Law Enforcement and Codes / property maintenance

Code enforcement and cannabis

Posted on: November 6, 2012

Santa Barbara is a wonderful place for a code training.  I was lucky enough to be invited by the California County Building Offiicials Association to teach Legal Aspects […]

Building Codes / Code Enforcement / property maintenance

Tough enforcement of building codes critical to prevention of damage

Posted on: August 22, 2012August 22, 2012

A recent article by an insurance group discusses how important it is to enforce tough building codes. As an example, it uses Hurricane Andrew.  Insurance companies like tough […]

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