Committee adopts administrative complaint pathway for code-enforcement certification discipline after negotiated edits
The committee voted to recommend LD2097 as amended to create an administrative process at MOCA for complaints against certified code enforcement officers (CEOs). The amended approach creates a division director intake, a peer review/adjudicatory committee, and progressive remedies; the committee added flexibility for training catch-up periods and removed civil fines.
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Maine's Office of Community Affairs proposed LD2097 to move certification-discipline review of code enforcement officers from a district-court-only path into an administrative framework managed by MOCA. Under the amended system, a complaint would reach MOCA; the division director would screen and, if needed, open an investigation; an investigatory committee and a separate three-member adjudicatory panel of peers would oversee hearings; remedies could include guidance, consent agreements, conditions, suspension, modification or revocation of certificates, and a right to appeal final agency action to superior court.
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