Flagler County, FL Code Violation Reporting: Response Times (2026)

Flagler County runs its civil citation system under Article III of Chapter 9, established under Part II of Chapter 162, Florida Statutes, as an additional and supplemental way of enforcing county codes and ordinances, including the land development code (Sec. 9-51). Code enforcement officers include building inspectors, the building official, law enforcement officers, animal control officers and fire safety inspectors (Sec. 9-52). Once an officer has reasonable cause to believe a violation exists, the officer issues a written warning notice that must give the violator a reasonable time to correct the problem, capped at thirty days under the schedule referenced in the code, unless the violation is a repeat, poses a serious threat to public health, safety or welfare, or is irreparable or irreversible, in which case a citation can issue immediately with no warning period (Sec.

9-54(a)). If the violation is not corrected in that window, the officer may issue a written citation. An alleged violator then has thirty days from the date the citation issues either to pay the civil penalty, which waives the right to a hearing and counts as an admission, or to request a hearing before a county court judge in writing (Sec. 9-54(e), (f)). Failing to pay and failing to request or appear at a hearing lets the court enter judgment for up to five hundred dollars per infraction plus costs (Sec.

9-54(g)). The parallel code enforcement board track under Article II runs on a different clock: the board schedules and notices a hearing after the correction period lapses, and repeat violators can be brought straight to a hearing without any warning notice at all (Sec. 9-32).