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Fla. Stat. § 162.02 (2025)
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162.02 Intent.—It is the intent of this part to promote, protect, and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the counties and municipalities of this state by authorizing the creation of administrative boards with authority to impose administrative fines and other noncriminal penalties to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and inexpensive method of enforcing any codes and ordinances in force in counties and municipalities, where a pending or repeated violation continues to exist.
Note.—Former s. 166.052.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1988–2022 · leading case: Pleasures II Adult Video, Inc. v. City of Sarasota, 833 So. 2d 185 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002).
Pleasures II Adult Video, Inc. v. City of Sarasota, 833 So. 2d 185 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002). “Section 162.02, Florida Statutes (1997), authorizes the creation of such boards "to impose administrative fines and other noncriminal penalties to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and inexpensive method of enforcing any codes and ordinances in force in counties and…”
Miskin v. City of Fort Lauderdale, 661 So. 2d 415 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995). “" § 162.02, Fla. Stat. (1993). Specifically, section 162.”
Verdi v. Metro. Dade Cnty., 684 So. 2d 870 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996). “02 reads: It is the intent of this part to promote, protect, and improve the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the counties and municipalities of this state by authorizing the creation of administrative boards with authority to impose administrative fines and other…”
Mathieu v. City of Lauderdale Lakes, 961 So. 2d 363 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). “" § 162.02, Fla. Stat. (2003). Section 162.”
Broward Cnty. v. Recupero, 949 So. 2d 274 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007). “§ 162.02, Fla. Stat. (2001). Accordingly, after inspection and notice, a code enforcement board may order a code violator to pay a fine for each day a violation continues past the date set by the board for compliance.”
Demura v. Cnty. of Volusia, 618 So. 2d 754 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993). “" Section 162.02, Fla. Stat. (1991). Section 162.”
City of Gainesville Code Enf't Bd. v. Lewis, 536 So. 2d 1148 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988). “Section 162.02. Enforcement is initiated by a code inspector who notifies the violator and gives him a reasonable time to correct the violation, and if the violation continues beyond the time specified for correction the code inspector must notify the board and request a hearing.”
Monroe Cnty. Code Enf't v. Carter, 14 So. 3d 1019 (Fla. 3d DCA 2009). “” § 162.02. In these administrative proceedings, there is no requirement that the County allege and prove the precise time and inception date on which every violation occurred.”
Miami-Dade Cnty. v. Brown, 814 So. 2d 518 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002). “However, Chapter 162, Florida Statutes, which grants counties and municipalities the authority to create administrative boards to impose penalties where a violation of its code and ordinance exists, Florida Statutes § 162.02, confers on local government the authority to either…”
Robson 200, LLC v. City of Lakeland (M.D. Fla. 2022). “§ 162.02, Fla. Stat. Additionally, the City’s purpose for enforcing the LDC is “to ensure safe, attractive neighborhoods through code compliance.”
Robert Kelvin Lindbloom v. Manatee Cnty. (11th Cir. 2020). “Fla. Stat. § 162.02 . A special magistrate has the same status as an enforcement board.”
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