Oak Creek officials are preparing to overhaul how the town handles code enforcement, shifting nuisance cases out of the political arena and into municipal court as part of a long-anticipated effort to ...

FITCHBURG — In March, the city of Fitchburg Health Department began the implementation and enforcement of a city code that will provide inspectors with new enforcement tools to combat unhealthy ...

The last article showed how catastrophic fire events have led to the development of fire code requirements throughout history. In-depth studies of those significant events led to specific requirements ...

TOWANDA — Towanda Borough is preparing a new enforcement procedure for certain code violations that will hasten the borough’s ability to assess fines while lightening the workload on the local ...

Code enforcement has become extremely technical and requires code officials to have many skills. These skills include the understanding of codes and standards, communication, interpersonal, time ...