Code Enforcement

Seminars include:

• Legal Aspects of Code Administration
• Advanced Legal Aspects for Property Maintenance Inspectors
• Advanced Legal Aspects for Building Code Officials and Inspectors
• Law Enforcement is Code Enforcement or How Code Enforcement Can Help Police Operations
• Dealing with Distressed Properties

Topics can include:

• Right of entry – legal ways to enter property
• Administrative search warrants
• Gathering evidence for court
• Identifying the responsible parties
• Legal liability of inspectors
• Constitutional issues in code enforcement
• Rental inspections – licensing and annual inspections
• Overcrowding
• Powers of the code officials
• Techniques that encourage compliance
• Permits, inspections and stop work orders
• Using zoning laws for enforcement
• Hoarding
• Relationship between code enforcement and crime reduction
• Foreclosure issues
• Testifying in court
• Pros and cons of administrative hearings v. court

Upcoming Code Enforcement Seminars

• February 11, 2025, ICC Region III conference, Advanced Legal Aspects, Brooklyn Park, MN

  February 20, 2025, LERMI, Update on statutory changes and law enforcement records, Oak Brook P.D.

  February 25, 2025, ICC Legal Aspects of Code Administration, Virtual

  April TBA 2025 ICC Advanced Legal Aspects for Property Maintenance Inspectors, Virtual

  June 19, 2025, ICC Advanced Legals Aspects for Building Officials, Virtual

  December 3, 2025, ICC Mini-Legal Aspects, Virtual

   

Fire Prevention Inspectors

Seminars include:

• Advanced Legal Aspects for Fire Code Inspector
• Effective Enforcement of Fire Codes
• Essentials for Inspectors: Drafting Complaints, Administrative Search Warrants and Testifying in Court

Topics include:

• Administrative search warrants
• Common fire violations and how to respond to them
• Court preparation
• Gathering evidence for court
• Legal liability of inspectors
• Search & seizure issues
• Constitutional issues in fire code enforcement
• Rental inspections – licensing and annual inspections
• Overcrowding
• Hoarding
• Using zoning laws for enforcement
• Powers of the fire official
• Techniques that encourage compliance
• Permits, inspections and stop work orders
• Relationship between code enforcement and crime reduction
• Foreclosure issues
• Testifying in court
• Pros and cons of administrative hearings v. court

Upcoming Code Enforcement Seminars

Law Enforcement Personnel

Seminars include:

• Juvenile Law Updates
• Legal Updates on Recent Case Law and Statutes
• Special Issues in Search and Seizure
• Taking Confessions from Minors
• Law Enforcement is Code Enforcement or How Code Enforcement Can Help Police Operations

Topics include:

• Confessions
• Fourth Amendment Issues
  • Entering Residences
  • Vehicle Searches
• Juvenile Law
• Relationship between code enforcement and crime reduction

Upcoming Law Enforcement Personnel Seminar:

• Legal Update – Illinois Juvenile Officers Association, East Peoria 6/16/21