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r JUL 16 1986 BooK 65 uUC 12! 1. The Indian River County Code Enforcement Board is the primary means of enforcing county ordinances, especially ordinances regulating the accumulation of junk, trash and debris upon commercial and residential property. The Indian River County Code Enforcement Department actually pursues violation of all county codes in force and presents cases once a month before the Code Enforcement Board. Any persons found in violation of such codes are ordered to bring their property into compliance with the code or face fines of up to $250.00 for each day the violation continues to exist. The County employs several staff members who are specifically assigned to deal with such code violations. Code enforcement officers are required to invest.igate each complaint reported to them and these officers bring hundreds of cases a year before the Code Enforcement Board. Several of these cases each year, including several cases currently pending, involve businesses in the Gifford community. 2. The Indian River County Building Department has been very active in identifying unsafe structures and ordering that such structures be destroyed or brought into compliance with tfie Building Code pursuant to the authority granted in Indian River County Code of Laws and Ordinances, Chapter 4. In several instances, unsafe structures in the Gifford area were demolished by the Indian River County Road and Bridge Department at the direction of the Building Department and the Board of County Commissioners. Several other buildings have been brought into compliance with the Code by their owners when notified by the Building Department that their structures were unsafe. 3. In .1985, the Florida Legislature created the Indian River County Environmental Control Hearing Board. Since this Board's inception, the local health department has filed numerous violations against businesses when the inspectors discovered potential health hazards. The Environmental Control Hearing .Board also has the authority to levy fines for each day a violation exists and may also file liens and foreclose upon the property of the violator. VI. PROFESSIONAL POLICE PATROLS. The Indian River County Sheriff is an independent constitutional officer and the Board of County Commissioners has no authority to influence the policies or operations of the Sheriff's Department. Attorney Wilson advised that he has tried.to relay this information to the Ministerial Alliance but has had trouble contacting them. Commissioner Lyons believed that this information should be given to the Public Safety Advisory Board and let them handle it. Commissioner Bird requested that the Ministerial Alliance be notified of the meeting when this will be discussed, and Chairman Scurlock wanted it to be made very clear that there are limits to 80