Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, REGULATORY COUNCIL OF COMMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS
Respondent: HEATHER MARY MANYO
Judges: SUSAN BELYEU KIRKLAND
Agency: Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Locations: St. Petersburg, Florida
Filed: Mar. 09, 2006
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Friday, May 5, 2006.
Latest Update: Dec. 23, 2024
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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
REGULATORY COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MANAGERS
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
Petitioner,
v.
Case No. 2003-090598
HEATHER MARY MANYO,
Respondent.
ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT
Petitioner, DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
("Petitioner"), files this Administrative Complaint before the Regulatory Council of Community
Association Managers (“Board”) against HEATHER MARY MANYO, ("Respondent"), and
alleges:
1. Petitioner is the State agency charged with regulating the practice of community
association management pursuant to Section 20.165 and Chapters 455 and 468, Part VIII, Florida
Statutes.
2. Respondent is duly licensed in the State of Florida as a community association
manager, having been issued license number CAM 38.
3. Respondent’s address of record with Petitioner is 17035 Gulf Boulevard, # 205,
N. Redington Beach, FL 33708.
4, Respondent was the community association manager (CAM) for Gulf Beach
Resort (“Association”). The Association's President, Rodger J. Gerstung (“Gerstung”), was
informed by the President of Brightswater Apartments, another community in which the
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Respondent managed, that it was discovered that Respondent had been paying herself double her
contracted wage.
5. The Association immediately conducted an investigation the Association's
records, which revealed that Respondent had written several unauthorized checks to herself. The
St. Petersburg Beach Police Department was called and the incident was documented, but there
were no formal criminal charges filed against Respondent.
6. Respondent was informed of the Association’s discovery of the fraudulent
appropriations and she agreed to reimburse the Association for their loss.
7. Section 468.436(1)(b)(2), Florida Statutes, provides that:
Violation of any lawful order or mile rendered or adopted by the
department or the council constitutes grounds for which disciplinary
‘action may be taken.
8. Section 61-20.503(7), Florida Administrative Code, states in pertinent part:
A licensee or registrant shall use funds received by him or it on the
account of any community association or its members only for the specific
purpose or purposes for which the funds were remitted.
9, Based on the foregoing, Respondent violated Section 468.436(1)(b)(2), Florida
Statutes, through a violation of Section 61-20.503(7), Florida Administrative Code, by failing to
use community association funds for the specific purpose or purposes for which the funds were
remitted.
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests the Board to enter an Order imposing one
or more of the penalties authorized by Sections 468.436(3) and 455.227(2), Florida Statutes,
which includes, but not is not limited to: revocation or suspension of Respondent’s license,
imposition of an administrative fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for each
count or separate offense, issuance of a reprimand, placement of Respondent on probation for a
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period of time and subject to such conditions as the Board specifies, and/or the restriction of the
authorized scope of practice by Respondent.
SIGNED this 197 aes of : fi! fi Ain b 6} 2004,
B:
rian A. Higgins
Assistant General Counse]
Counsel for the Department:
Brian A. Higgins
Assistant General Counsel F | f f D
Florida Bar No. 0169791
Department of Business and Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Professional Regulation DEPUTY CLERK
1940 North Monroe Street NM ‘
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2202 CLERK Achat
Telephone: (850) 488-0062 1d ~} - 2004
Facsimile: (850) 414-6749 DATE
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Case No. 2003-090598
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Docket for Case No: 06-000835PL
Issue Date |
Proceedings |
May 05, 2006 |
Order Closing File. CASE CLOSED.
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May 03, 2006 |
Motion to Relinquish Jurisdiction without Prejudice filed.
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Mar. 17, 2006 |
Order of Pre-hearing Instructions.
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Mar. 17, 2006 |
Notice of Hearing (hearing set for May 11, 2006; 9:00 a.m.; St. Petersburg, FL).
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Mar. 16, 2006 |
Joint Response to the Initial Order filed.
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Mar. 09, 2006 |
Initial Order.
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Mar. 09, 2006 |
Administrative Complaint filed.
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Mar. 09, 2006 |
Agency referral filed.
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Mar. 09, 2006 |
Letter to B. Higgins from M. Ware regarding withdrawing as counsel of record for H. Manyo filed.
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Mar. 09, 2006 |
Response to Administrative Complaint filed.
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Mar. 09, 2006 |
Election of Rights filed.
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