TUPELO — Tupelo officials gave the city’s code and rental inspections a significant technology upgrade in hopes of streamlining the inspection process. During a special-called meeting Thursday ...

Florida is about to make virtual inspections legal statewide. Starting July 1, The Florida Building Codes Act authorizes any government entity with the authority to enforce the building code to ...

(TNS) — SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Firefighters will soon be able to file reports of potential code violations directly to the building department, thanks to a new municipal software program. City officials ...

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio City Council approved a new program to increase apartment inspections at complexes failing to meet the city’s maintenance and safety codes. The Proactive Apartment ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The city of Orlando is exploring a new approach to keep better tabs on code violations at apartment and condominium complexes. Instead of only working on a complaint basis, code ...

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Three years after the city of Fresno launched a proactive rental housing inspection program, code enforcement officers inspected 7,704 registered rental units. Most of them failed initial inspection.

San Antonio – Instead of waiting to get new complaints about the same old properties, the City of San Antonio plans to send code enforcement officers out to proactively look for issues. And the ...