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 Pensacola
 Code of Ordinances
 Title XIII. CODE ENFORCEMENT
 CHAPTER 13-1. CODE ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY

  § 13-1-2. Definitions.  

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  • City shall mean the City of Pensacola, Florida.

    Code enforcement officer shall mean those persons designated by the mayor whose duty it is to ensure compliance with the Code of the City of Pensacola, Florida. For purposes of this chapter and chapter 13-2 of the Code, code inspector, enforcement officer, and any other employee or agent so designated by the mayor under the provisions of this title of this Code shall have the same meaning.

    Codes and ordinances shall mean the Municipal Code of the City of Pensacola, Florida, and all ordinances adopted by reference to any of the foregoing chapters, as now exiting or as may be amended or created by ordinances from time to time.

    Cost of repairs shall mean all costs inclusive of personnel costs incurred by the city in order to make all reasonable repairs required to bring property into code compliance and to initiate and prosecute code compliance process and procedures.

    Governing body shall mean the City Council of the City of Pensacola.

    Irreparable or irreversible shall mean incapable of being rectified, repaired, or corrected or not reasonably possible to reverse.

    Itinerant or transient shall mean any act, activity or condition in violation of this Code which moves from place to place within the City of Pensacola, or is temporary in nature.

    Nuisance shall mean those conditions defined as nuisances in Florida Statues and in other provisions of the Code of Ordinances, as the code may be amended from time to time.

    Person shall mean an individual, a group of two (2) or more individuals who are jointly responsible for a code violation or the correction of a code violation, and any entity or business, regardless of form, which is responsible for a code violation, the correction of a code violation, or the ownership of real property upon which a code violation occurred or exists.

    Repeat violation shall mean a violation of a provision of a code or ordinance by a person who has been previously found through a code enforcement board or any other judicial or quasi-judicial process, to have violated or who has admitted violating the same provision within five (5) years prior to the violation, notwithstanding whether the violations occur or may have occurred at different locations.

    Responsible party shall mean the violator, the record owner of property, the officers and agents of a record owner, tenants or other persons in lawful possession with the consent of the record owner, and persons and entities holding a recorded security interest in property who have been provided with notice of the existence of one or more code violations on such property and information that the violation(s) have not been cured by an owner or person in possession.

    Special master shall mean the hearing officer(s) designated by the city council as special magistrates having the authority to conduct quasi-judicial hearings and assess fines against code violators and such other authority as may be conferred by F.S. Ch. 162, or any other law. The city council may, by ordinance, confer additional authority and responsibility upon special masters, including the responsibility and authority to serve as hearing officers in proceedings not involving municipal code violations.

    Violator shall mean the person responsible for the code violation.

(Ord. No. 17-11, § 2, 9-8-11)