FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF CODE ENFORCEMENT level 1-
Fundamentals of Code Enforcement-Questions with Correct
Answers/ Verified
Township lines - ✔✔Lines running east and west at 6 mile intervals; north and south of the
Base Line.
Range Lines - ✔✔Lines running north and south at 6 mile intervals east and west of the
Principal Meridian.
Townships - ✔✔The six-mile by six-mile squares formed from Township lines and Range
Lines and are 36 square miles in area
Report - ✔✔A permanent written record that communicates useful important facts to be
used in the future.
Initial Complaint or Investigation documents, Activity (or follow-up), Case Dockets or
Summaries, Miscellaneous reports. - ✔✔What are the four types of Code Enforcement
Documents?
average of 17 words per sentence - ✔✔what is the average word per sentence for readers
with high school education?
Actor/Verb/Object - ✔✔What is AVO?
Substantive due process - ✔✔any and all legislation that is enacted by a government must
bear some rational relationship to a legitimate governmental interest and must be
compatible with individual liberties.
Procedural Due Process - ✔✔involves the right of the violator to receive notice of the
proceedings and the right to a hearing (with confrontation and cross-examination of
"accusers") to determine governmental deprivations of liberty or property interests.
, Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas - ✔✔a local zoning ordinance limited occupancy of single-
family residential property to not more than two unrelated persons. The ordinance was held
valid as a reasonable measure for reducing congestion, promoting tranquility in residential
areas, and providing greater family amenities.
Moore v. East Cleveland - ✔✔a city may not define "single family" so narrowly as to prevent
close relatives (grandmother and grandchildren) from residing together; to do so
unreasonably interferes with family relationships.
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT - ✔✔What Amendment to the Constitution deals with Due
Process?
The Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Which Amendment requires that private property not be taken
for public use without payment of just compensation? This is applicable to state and local
government as well as the federal government.
The Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Which Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
generally prohibits unreasonable searches or seizures of any property?
Chapter 162 - ✔✔Which chapter of the Florida Statutes is the most important law affecting
Code Enforcement? It sets forth the legal authority for Code Enforcement activities, the
rules that must be followed in obtaining compliance with the law or creating a lien, and it
defines the rights which the local government has as a result of the creation of liens.
Camara v. Municipal Court of San Francisco - ✔✔A United States Supreme Court held that a
warrant is required to make routine annual inspections of residential structures, and an
occupant who refuses to give consent to an inspection cannot be prosecuted for a violation
of law requiring obedience to the orders of a municipal official
Article I, Section 23 - ✔✔With regard to privacy, in 1980 the voters of Florida approved
which constitutional amendment of the Florida Constitution?
Michigan v. Tyler - ✔✔In which case did The United States Supreme Court clarified the issue
of emergency situations?
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