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Officials say property-maintenance code has limits; legal action and inspections are costly
Summary
Mr. Beam presented a flowchart explaining that code complaints typically end unsubstantiated, with voluntary compliance, or through costly legal action; he said mold is not codified outside school rules and that derelict-building authority links to tax-abatement programs, leaving enforcement and funding gaps.
Mr. Beam presented the town–county liaison meeting with a flowchart of how property-maintenance and building-code complaints are handled and stressed practical and legal limits to enforcement.
"There's only three possible outcomes for the entire process," Beam said: a complaint can be unsubstantiated; it can be resolved via compliance; or it can proceed through the legal process and the courts. He warned that legal enforcement is lengthy and expensive and that fines and recoveries rarely fully recoup…
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