City Attorney’s Office given authority to take legal action related to code violations

The Cape Coral City Council gave the City Attorney’s Office the ability to initiate and pursue all legal remedies to ensure compliance and enforcement is being met.

The authorization allows the city’s legal office the authority “to initiate and pursue those available legal remedies to ensure compliance and enforcement of the various ordinance provisions” and authorize “any and all legal action to require any individuals, entities, businesses, or corporations to immediately abate the continued unlawful violations that may directly or indirectly implicate the public health, safety and general welfare of the city residents and visitors.”

City Attorney Aleksandr Boksner said when they have people who do not comply with a special magistrate order, a quasi-judicial order, the city can pursue an actual judicial order…

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