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Board updates fire civil-citation resolution to add fines as enforcement option
Summary
The board approved an update to Resolution 2025-26 allowing the fire marshal to issue civil citations for noncompliance as an intermediate enforcement tool; the county attorney and deputy clarified that shutdown authority remains for major safety violations.
Washington County commissioners voted to update the county’s fire civil‑citation resolution to provide an intermediate enforcement tool for noncompliance.
Greg Carteret, director of Permits, Inspections and Fire Marshal, told the board the county has received complaints that require inspections and that adding civil citations would give the office “another option, without having to go to the extreme option of shutting them down…
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