CopyCited 4 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1998 WL 146178
...Chapter 162 allows counties to enforce their ordinances through code enforcement boards with appeal to the circuit court (chapter 162, part I) and/or through code enforcement officers with appeal to the county court by trial de novo (chapter 162, part II) or, indeed, "by any other means." See sections
162.13,
162.21(8), Fla....
...lternative code enforcement system which gives code enforcement boards or special masters [hearing officers], or both, the authority to hold hearings and assess fines against violators of ... county ... codes and ordinances." (Emphasis added.) Next, section 162.13 establishes the supplemental nature of the "Part I" procedures they "shall [not] prohibit a local governing body from enforcing its codes by other means", for instance by "Part II" means....
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municipal codes and ordinances. As stated in section
162.13, Florida Statutes, "It is the legislative intent
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...in Article II , section 5 (a), Florida Constitution. Sincerely, Robert A. Butterworth Attorney General RAB/tls 1
238 So.2d 401 , 407 (Fla. 1970). 2 State ex rel. Holloway v. Sheats,
83 So. 508, 509 (1919). 3 See, Op. Att'y Gen. Fla. 72-348 (1972). 4 Section
162.13 , Fla....
CopyPublished | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 889, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 7415
...o select *531 from among the technical codes enumerated in [the Act].” Petitioner has consistently taken the position that the legislative intent became apparent in 1983, when the Municipal Code Enforcement Boards Act was amended and renumbered. 4 Section 162.13, which was then added, provides: Provisions of act supplemental....
..., finds merit in petitioner’s contention that the Legislature never intended for a code enforcement board, once created, to have exclusive jurisdiction of all the code violations listed in the enabling statute. Significantly, the Legislature added section 162.13 to the statute, which otherwise remained essentially unchanged, after the issuance of the Attorney General’s opinion concerning this point....
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General RAB/tls 1 Section
162.03(2), Fla. Stat. 2 Section
162.13, Fla. Stat. 3 Section
162.21(1), Fla. Stat
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...designated as the city's code enforcement officer may make arrests and carry firearms; however, he exercises such powers as a municipal police officer and not as a code enforcement officer. Sincerely, Robert A. Butterworth Attorney General RAB/tjw 1 Section 162.13 , Fla....
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General RED/tjw 1 Section
162.01, Fla. Stat. 2 Section
162.13, Fla. Stat. 3 Section
162.06, Fla. Stat. 4
CopyPublished | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 3864, 1998 WL 171482
...ause violations of the municipal housing code were within the exclusive jurisdiction of the local government code enforcement board. The circuit court, in its appellate capacity, found that the county court had jurisdiction under sections
162.09 and
162.13, Florida Statutes (1996)....
...When the Weisses were prosecuted for a fire code violation in county court, they claimed that the city could not arbitrarily choose which codes to enforce through the board and which to prosecute in county court as code violations. The third district determined that under section 162.13, Florida Statutes (1983), a municipality could determine which code violations would be heard by the code enforcement board....
