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Code Enforcement Officer (State ofTexas)
The Code Enforcement Officer examination measures the ________ and ________ required to be a code
officer. - correct answer ✔✔Knowledge and Skills.
What is the purpose of Code Enforcement? - correct answer ✔✔To establish and maintain a standard of
quality of life for all citizens by providing quality inspections and bringing about improvements and
rehabilitation to the community.
Code Enforcement started growing with what types of incidents? - correct answer
✔✔Health/Environmental issues, community safety, dangerous buildings, and fire incidents.
Define Code Enforcement? - correct answer ✔✔The inspection, improvement, and rehabilitation of
environmental hazards in public and private premises by determining the presence of fire or health
hazards, nuisance violations, unsafe building conditions and violations of any fire, health or building
regulation, statute, or ordinance.
In regards to the Texas Administrative Code (2007), define a Code Enforcement Officer? - correct answer
✔✔An agent of this state or political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement and has
one year or more of experience in the field of code enforcement.
Define a Code Enforcement Officer-in-Training? - correct answer ✔✔An agent of this state or a political
subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement but who has less than one year of experience
in the field of code enforcement and is supervised by a registered code enforcement officer.
T or F?
Code Enforcement Officers identify with the same citation powers as police officers, sheriffs, marshals,
and others. - correct answer ✔✔True!
Generally speaking, code enforcement does not deal with the _________ element of enabling legislation
and ordinances, while police officers do. - correct answer ✔✔Criminal.
,T or F?
Code officers are not allowed by law to provide a summons or set a court date. This must be done by the
municipal, county, or district courts. - correct answer ✔✔True!
In regards to non-citation enforcement options, what can a CEO do instead of issuing a citation? - correct
answer ✔✔Serve a notice of violation.
Are trash, refuse, rubbish, debris, junk motor vehicles, high grass and weeds, nuisances, and zoning
worth risking personal safety? - correct answer ✔✔Hell NO!
Being prepared is one way in which CEO's help protect themselves. Prepared is an acronym that stands
for what? - correct answer ✔✔Proactive, Responsive, Empathetic, Patient, Alert, Ready, Educated, and
Disciplined.
The purpose of Code Enforcement Association of Texas (CEAT) is what? - correct answer ✔✔To study and
advance the science and practice of code enforcement through certification designed to promote the
interests of the profession.
On a national level, what is the association that represents code enforcement officers? - correct answer
✔✔American Association of Code Enforcement (AACE)
What is the International Code Council? - correct answer ✔✔Code council involved in code on an
international scale. There are substantial advantages in combining the efforts of existing code
organizations to produce a single set of codes.
What is the State of Texas definition of Code Enforcement?
a. The ability to arrest anyone at anytime.
b. The abilitiy to write ordinances, inspect property, issue citations, and arrest violators.
c. The inspection, improvement and rehabilitation of environmental hazards in public and private
premises by determining the presence of fire or health hazards, nuisance violations, unsafe building
conditions, and violations of any fire, health, or building regulation, state, or ordinance.
,d. The enforcement of the federal code. - correct answer ✔✔C
The State of Texas defines a code enforcement officer as:
a. An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement and has
one year or more of experience in the field of code enforcement.
b. An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement and has
three months or more of experience in the field of code enforcement.
c. An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement and has
six months or more of experience in the field of code enforcement.
d. An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement and has
five years or more of experience in the field of code enforcement. - correct answer ✔✔A
The State of Texas defines a code enforcement officer-in-training as:
a. An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement and has
three months or more of experience in the field of code enforcement.
b. An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement and has
one year or more of experience in the field of code enforcement.
c. An enforcement agent.
d. An agent of this state or a political subdivision of this state who engages in code enforcement but who
has less than one year of experience in the field of code enforcement and is supervised by a registered
Code Enforcement Officer. - correct answer ✔✔D
Define Absolute Immunity? - correct answer ✔✔The status of a person or body that places one beyond
the law and makes one free from legal obligations. Immunity for building official or CEO, not liable for
their discretionary acts.
Define Affiant? - correct answer ✔✔The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit.
Define Affidavit? - correct answer ✔✔A voluntary, written, or printed declaration of facts, confirmed by
oath of the party making it before a person with authority to administer the oath.
, Define Civil Action? - correct answer ✔✔Legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil
remedy.
Define Defamation? - correct answer ✔✔That which tends to injure a person's reputation.
Ex: A lie that I tell that messed up Ruby's reputation.
Define Dillon's Rule? - correct answer ✔✔Municipal governments only have the powers that are
expressly granted to them by the state legislature, those that are necessarily implied from that grant of
power, and those that are essential and indispensable to the municipalities existence and functioning.
Define Enabling Legislation? - correct answer ✔✔The act of giving or enacting laws; the power to make
laws via legislation in contrast to court-made laws.
Define General Law City? - correct answer ✔✔Basically, cities operate under the laws of the state with
some exceptions to those laws.
Define Home Rule? - correct answer ✔✔The power of a city to govern itself so long as charter provisions
or ordinances are not inconsistent with state law.
Define Home Rule Charter? - correct answer ✔✔Organizational plan or framework of a municipal
corporation like a constitution of a state or nation; it is drawn up by the municipality and adopted by
popular vote of the people. Comes after Home Rule is achieved.
Define Substantive Law? - correct answer ✔✔The statutory or written law that governs rights and
obligations of those who are subject to it.
Define Testimony? - correct answer ✔✔The evidence given by a witness under oath. It does not include
evidence from documents and other physical evidence.
Define Ultra Vires? - correct answer ✔✔Beyond the legal power or authority of a person or official or
body, etc.
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