Plassman v. Wauseon

In Plassman v. Wauseon, 6th Dist. No. F-02-026, 2003 Ohio 897, a building code required the city to provide notice to the property owner of violations. It also required the notice to include a time and place for an administrative hearing before a hearing officer. The code allowed the property owner to present evidence at the hearing to refute the facts in the notice. The hearing officer could confirm the building code administrator's decision and provide a reasonable time to abate the violations, refute the findings and revoke the administrator's work order, or modify any part of the work order, including the reasonable time of completion. Additionally, any person affected by the enforcement of the code could bypass that hearing and appeal directly to the board of zoning appeals within fifteen days of the notice, without waiting for the hearing before the hearing officer. Id. at P15-16.