I'm pretty sure that the industry doesn't need my help with that. Do you suppose that If I cared what you thought, I would tell such truths?
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Garage pedestrian door size
- Thread starter Lanso
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So, you're okay with inspectors making up BS corrections and saying, "if they don't know the code it's their own darn fault?"
Have I complained? Like I said, it's of no consequence.
You are bold and timid at the same time. You are eager to be offended yet do not see you own offense. You call me names like you have a right to. I can discount your entirety and not lose anything. And so I shall.
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How many times on here has there been a response to a builder questioning an inspection comment “ask the inspector for the applicable code”.
Yankee Chronicler
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Pre-COVID, when we still had live in-service classes, the chief prosecutor for the state's attorney's office used to do an all-day session for code officials once a year. She told us we had to list code sections for anything we wrote up. "If you don't have a citation, you don't have a violation."
How many in attendance paid attention to that? Were you ever an inspector?
I know that there are inspectors that do include a section number with every citation. They take pride in that. Seems like wasted energy in most cases but to each his own.
I think he mentioned once or twice that he was an architect...
steveray
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Inspector Gift
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Since 2006, OREGON requires all jurisdictions to cite the code sections for each violation. "Cite-it Write-it" And yes, we provide the code section(s). To the credit of the State, every inspector, plans examiner and Building Official has to be certified by the State of Oregon. (It can be such a pain looking up the codes sections!)
Yankee Chronicler
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I didn't say it was easy, and I didn't say everyone in her audience did (or does) what she said. She's a prosecuting attorney. What she was saying was, if a problem reaches the formal charge and court stage, if we haven't cited the section of code we allege was violated -- the judge will throw the case out of court.
Yes, I have been an inspector Fifteen+ years. 'Nuff to meet your qualification standards?
Well then welcome to the ranks. Which discipline did you inspect?