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Pensacola special magistrate enters compliance orders for two properties
Summary
At a May 19 Code Enforcement Authority hearing, Special Magistrate Ralph Peterson entered orders of compliance for two Pensacola properties after city code officers testified both addresses had corrected prior violations; court costs remain outstanding.
Ralph Peterson, a special magistrate for the City of Pensacola, on May 19 entered orders of compliance for two properties after city code officers testified the cited violations had been corrected. The hearing was held at City Hall chambers, 222 West Main Street, and was audio and video recorded.
Tom Lucia, a designated code enforcement officer, testified that case CE261204 concerned a property at "504 North G Street," and said the property had been found in violation at a May 5 hearing for "section four-three-forty 1 use of solid waste collection services required." Lucia said a $25-a-day fine had been ordered if the property was not in compliance by May 18, and that the CIS sanitation account for the property was active as of May 6. "The case has been corrected," Lucia said. Magistrate Peterson said the time had not run to pay assessed court costs but, "based on the testimony, the case has … there's been compliance, and we'll enter a compliance order in this case."
For case CE261490, Peterson swore in Kevin Smith, a code enforcement officer, who told the authority that the property at 5042 Bayou Boulevard had been found in violation of International Property Maintenance Code 308.1 for "accumulation of rubbish or garbage" at the May 5 hearing. Smith said compliance had been ordered by May 18 or a $100 daily fine would commence May 19, and that he inspected the property and "the cited violation has been brought into compliance, therefore a case against this property has been corrected." Peterson again noted that the court costs remained due and said he would enter an order of compliance in that case.
The hearing consisted of the two noncompliance cases on the docket and then was adjourned. The orders address the immediate compliance status; Peterson did not announce reductions or waiver of assessed court costs at the hearing.
The Code Enforcement Authority enforces local property and sanitation requirements; further procedural steps, if any, and collection of court costs were not specified at the hearing.
