Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BUILDING CODE ADMINISTRATORS AND INSPECTORS
Respondent: ROBIN ARTHUR BRINKLEY
Judges: CHARLES C. ADAMS
Agency: Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Locations: Apalachicola, Florida
Filed: Dec. 24, 2001
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Thursday, January 10, 2002.
Latest Update: Nov. 16, 2024
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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION |
BUILDING CODE ADMINISTRATORS AND INSPECTORS BOARD
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PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, O/ “fp STD Ff G
Petitioner,
vs. Case No. 2001-05741
ROBIN ARTHUR BRINKLEY,
Respondent.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
("Petitioner"), files this Administrative Complaint before the Building Code Administrators and
Inspectors Board, (“Board”) against ROBIN ARTHUR BRINKLEY, ("Respondent"), and says:
1. Petitioner is the state agency charged with regulating the practice of building code
administration pursuant to Section 20.165, Florida Statutes, and Chapters 455 and 468, Florida
Statutes.
2. Respondent is, and has been at all times material hereto, a Building Code
Administrator, in the State of Florida, having been issued license number BU 0001203.
3. Respondent's last known address is 456 23" Avenue, Apalachicola, Florida 32320.
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4. Section 468.607, Florida Statutes (2000), provides in part:
“No person may be employed by a state agency or local government
authority to perform the duties of a building code administrator, plans
examiner, or inspector after October 1, 1993, without possessing the
proper valid certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of this
part.” .
5. Section 468.609(7)(d), Florida Statutes (2000), provides in part:
“A newly employed or hired person may perform the duties of plans
examiner or building code inspector for 90 days if a provisional
certificate application has been submitted, provided such person is
under the direct supervision of a certified building code administrator
who holds a standard certification and who has found such person
qualified for a provisional certificate.”
6. On or about October 10, 2000, the Respondent submitted an application to the
State of Florida Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board to obtain a provisional 1 & 2
family dwelling inspector’s license.
7. In accordance with Section 468.609(7)(d), Florida Statutes, the application
permitted the Respondent to perform inspections for 90 days pending the Board’s review of the
application.
8. On or about October 20, 2000, the Board sent the Respondent correspondence -
requesting additional information in regard to the October 10, 2000 application.
9. The Respondent did not submit the additional information to the Board in support
of the application.
10. The Board considered Respondent’s application to be abandoned and did not issue
a license to Respondent.
11. Inor around January 2001, the Respondent telephoned the Board office and
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inquired about the status of his October 10, 2000 application.
12. Inresponse to the Respondent’s inquiry, the Board advised the Respondent to
submit another application so that the 90-day time limit set forth in Section 468.609(7)(d), Florida
Statutes, would start to run again and allow Respondent to continue to perform inspections.
13. Onor about January 20, 2001, the Respondent’s 90-day exemption expired and
the Respondent was not permitted to perform any further inspections.
14. Inor around May 24, 2001 through May 30, 2001, the Respondent submitted
another application to the Board to obtain a provisional 1 & 2 family dwelling inspector’s license
and an application to obtain a provisional plans examiner license.
15. From in or around January 20, 2001 through in or around May 30, 2001, the
Respondent continued to perform building inspections.
16. From in or around January 20, 2001 through in or around May 30, 2001, the
Respondent was not licensed to perform building inspections and was not permitted to perform
inspections pursuant to the 90-day application exemption set forth in Section 468.609(7)(d),
Florida Statutes.
17. By performing building inspections without a license and without the 90-day
application exemption, the Respondent violated Section 468.607, Florida Statutes (2000.).
18. Based upon the foregoing, the Respondent violated Section 468.621(1)(a), Florida
Statutes, (2000), by violating or failing to comply with any provision of this part, or a valid rule or
lawful order of the department pursuant thereto.
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests the Building Code Administrators and
Inspectors Board enter an Order imposing one or more of the following penalties: place on
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probation, reprimand the licensee, revoke, suspend, deny the issuance or renewal of the certificate
or registration, impose an administrative fine not to exceed $5,000 per violation, require
continuing education, assess costs associated with investigation and prosecution, impose any or
all penalties delineated within Section 455.227(2), Florida Statutes, and/ot any other relief that
the Board is authorized to impose pursuant to Chapters 468, 455, Florida Statutes, and/or the
tules promulgated thereunder.
Signed this x Bi 7 etn __, 2001.
ROBERT CRABILL
CHIEF CONSTRUCTION ATTORNEY
COUNSEL FOR DEPARTMENT: cament of Business and Professional Reguiatian
Diane Snell Perera ;
Senior Attorney ;
Department of Business and CLERK Paw y A
Professional Regulation 1 We 2-A00\
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Office of the General Counsel
401 NW 2 Avenue #N607
Miami, FL 33128
(305) 377-7115
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