WHERE THE METHODS SPECIFIED IN THE ACT ARE IMPOSSIBLE OR IMPRACTICAL?
The “Local Government Code Enforcement Boards Act,” ss. 162.01-162.13, F.S., was amended by Ch. 85-150, Laws of Florida, to, inter alia, permit code enforcement boards to impose fines for repeated violations of local codes and ordinances which have no criminal penalty, to reduce the time within which code enforcement boards may foreclose liens and to provide that an appeal of an enforcement board’s final administrative order shall not be a hearing de novo. See, title and s. 1, Ch. 85-150, Laws of Florida. The effective date of this amendment was July 1, 1985. See, s. 4, Ch. 85-150. As expressed in s. 1, Ch. 85-150, the legislative intent of the Act is to promote, protect, and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the counties and municipalities of this state by authorizing the creation of administrative boards to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and inexpensive method of enforcing the codes and ordinances, which have no criminal penalty, in force in co
