Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Respondent: JOSEPH V. SCALZO, D/B/A JAYVEES REAL ESTATE M.D. AND C., INC.
Judges: ERROL H. POWELL
Agency: Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Locations: Lauderdale Lakes, Florida
Filed: Feb. 24, 2009
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Friday, April 17, 2009.
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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
Petitioner,
Vs. Case No. 2008-008821
JOSEPH V. SCALZO,
D/B/A JAYVEES REAL ESTATE
M. D. & C., INC.
Respondent.
ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
Department of Business and Professional Regulation
("Petitioner") files this Administrative Complaint against
Joseph V. Scalzo d/b/a Jayvees Real Estate M. D. ¢ C., Ine.,
("Respondent") and alleges:
1. Petitioner is the state agency charged with requlating
the practice of community association management pursuant to
Section 20.165, Florida Statutes, and Chaptets 455 and 468 Part
VIII, Florida Statutes.
2. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation
has jurisdiction over the unlicensed practice of community
association management pursuant to Section 455.228, Florida
Statutes.
3. Chapter 120, Florida Statutes, entitles Respondent to
elect a hearing regarding the allegations contained herein,
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Rule 28-106.1]1, Florida Administrative Code, provides in part
that if Respondent fails to request a hearing within 21 days of
“receipt of an agency pleading, Respondent waives Respondent’s
right to request a hearing on the facts alleged.
4, At no time material hereto was Respondent duly
licensed | to. engage in the practice of community association
management as defined in Subsection 468.431(2), Florida
Statutes, pursuant to Chapter 468 Part VIII, Florida Statutes.
Ds At no time material hereto was Jayvees Real Estate M.
D. & C., Ine., Guly licensed to engage in the practice of
community association management as defined in Subsection
468.431 (2), Florida Statutes, pursuant to Chapter 468 Part VIII,
Florida Statutes.
6. The following is Respondent’s last known address: 4151
NW 41 Street, Lauderdale Lake, FL 33319.
7. Respondent is the sole owner and President, Treasurer
and, the Secretary of Jayvees Real Estate M. D. & C., Inc.
8. At all material times, Respondent served as the
President of the Board of Pearl Condominium Association
(“Pearl”), a. 76-unit -condominium association in Lauderdale
Lakes, Florida.
9. During his service as the President of the Pearl
’ Condominium Association, precisely between November 1, 2007 and
February i, 2008, Respondent performed management duties
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including receiving funds from the unit owners and depositing
such funds in the association’s bank account: signing checks on
behalf of the association; paying contractors for the
maintenance of the condominium; noticing and conducting
association meetings; administering the finances of the
association, and discharging other day to day activities as a
Manager of the association.
10. Respondent and/or Jayvees Real Estate M. D. & C., Ine.
were paid monthly fees for managing the Pearl Condominium
Association, Respondent and/or Jayvees Real Estate M. D. §& C.,
Inc were paid $1,283.33 on November 16, 2007; $1,283.33 on
December 12, 2007, and $1,283.33 on January 28, 2008,
11. On or about February 19, 2008, Respondent distributed
to the Pearl Condominium Association unit owners a notice of the
February 2008 Board meeting, informing such owners that the
Board members voted unanimously to “xesume the Management
duties, with Jayvees Real Estate M, D, & C, Inc., License
Pending, for which Joseph Scalzo graciously accepted”.
12. On June 9, 2008 Respondent filed an application for
licensure as a Community Association Manager with the
Petitioner.
13. ° Subsection 468.431(2), Florida Statutes, provides that
community association management means any of the following
practices requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgment,
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and managerial skill when done for remuneration and when the
association or associations served contain more than 50 units or
have an annual budget or budgets in excess of $100,000:
controlling or disbursing funds of a community association,
preparing budgets or other financial documents for a community
association, assisting in the noticing or conduct of community
association meetings, and coordinating maintenance for the
residential development and other day to day services involved
with the operation of a community association.
14. Subsection 468.432(1), Florida Statutes, provides
“[a] person shall not manage or hold herself or himself out
to the public as being able to manage a community
association in this state unless she or he is licensed by
the department in accordance with the provisions of this
part.
15. Based upon the foregoing, Respondent has violated
Subsection 468.432(1), Florida Statutes, by providing community
association management services at Harbor for compensation, in
one of the following ways:
(a) by. controlling or disbursing funds of a
community association, preparing budgets or
other financial documents for a community
association, assisting in the noticing or
conduct of community association meetings,
and coordinating maintenance for the
residential development and other day to day
services involved with the operation of a
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community association, as defined by Section
468.431(2), Florida Statutes;
(b) by holding himself out to the public as
being able to manage a community association
in this state as provided by. Section
468.432(1), Florida Statutes. ;
Wherefore, Petitioner respectfully requests that a Final
Order be entered imposing one or more of the following
penalties: an administrative fine not to exceed $5,000.00 per
incident; assessment of costs related to the investigation and
prosecution of the case (excluding costs associated with an
attorney’s time); and/or any other relief the Department is
authorized to impose pursuant to Chapters 455 and 468 Part VIII,
Florida Statutes, and the rules promulgated thereunder.
Signed this Jf day of Coke Ser. , 2008.
3 \ ah Regulation
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Doparten DEPUTY Ch
’ SORAN ARDELEAN
CLERK an, 00% Agsistant General Counsel
beni "la. Bar No. 734853
DATE 1940 North Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399+2202
Voice: (850) 414-0137
Facsimile: (850) 414-6749
PC Found: Lofrt /: 2006
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Docket for Case No: 09-001016
Issue Date |
Proceedings |
Apr. 17, 2009 |
Order Closing File. CASE CLOSED.
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Apr. 16, 2009 |
Motion to Relinquish Jurisdiction filed.
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Mar. 13, 2009 |
Order of Pre-hearing Instructions.
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Mar. 13, 2009 |
Notice of Hearing by Video Teleconference (hearing set for May 1, 2009; 9:00 a.m.; Lauderdale Lakes and Tallahassee, FL).
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Mar. 12, 2009 |
Unilateral Response to Initial Order filed.
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Mar. 02, 2009 |
Unilateral Response to Initial Order filed.
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Feb. 24, 2009 |
Initial Order.
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Feb. 24, 2009 |
Administrative Complaint filed.
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Feb. 24, 2009 |
Election of Rights filed.
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Feb. 24, 2009 |
Agency referral
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