Board restores statutory $1,000/day cap in Appendix B penalty table

Oct 1, 2026

The board amended Appendix B of the county code to correct the civil-penalty table for building-code violations and to explicitly reflect the statutory $1,000-per-day cap on daily penalties for ongoing building-code violations; the resolution passed 5–0.

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Assistant County Counsel Paul Matthias Benich told the board that recent edits to Appendix B had inadvertently removed a statutory reference to the daily-penalty cap for ongoing building-code violations, creating apparent overlap between per-violation and daily-penalty provisions.

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