Petitioner: DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, BUILDING CODE ADMINISTRATORS AND INSPECTORS
Respondent: MARIO LOBASSO
Judges: LARRY J. SARTIN
Agency: Department of Business and Professional Regulation
Locations: Boca Raton, Florida
Filed: Jun. 10, 2008
Status: Closed
Settled and/or Dismissed prior to entry of RO/FO on Tuesday, August 12, 2008.
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STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
BUILDING CODE ADMINISTRATORS & INSPECTORS BOARD
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,
Petitioner,
vs. Case No. 2006-029748
MARIO LOBASSO,
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 Mario Lobasso, ("Respondent"), and says:
1. Petitioner is the state agency charged with regulating the practice of building code
administration and inspection pursuant to Section 20.165, Florida Statutes, and Chapters 455 and
468, Part XII, Florida Statutes.
2. Respondent's address of record with Petitioner is 2930 Waterford Drive South,
Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442.
3, Respondent is currently licensed in the State of Florida as a Building Inspector,
having been issued license number BN 961.
4. At all times material hereto, Respondent was employed as the Senior Plumbing
Plans Examiner for the City of Boca Raton.
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3. Records obtained from the City of Boca Raton Building Department revealed that
Respondent performed the plumbing plans examining for Boca Raton Building Permit #04-1804,
on June 9, 2005.
6. On June 5, 2006, Respondent admitted he had been performing plumbing plans
review for the last year and a half. Respondent is employed by the City of Boca Raton and stated
his title is Senior Plumbing Plans Examiner. Investigation by the Department of Business and
Professional Regulation revealed Respondent applied for his Plumbing Provi sional Plans Review
License on April 15, 2003 and that DBPR mailed Respondent a deficiency Jetter on May 28,
2003.
7. At no time material hereto was Respondent licensed as a plans examiner in the
State of Florida.
8. Section 468.629(1)(a), Florida Statutes, provides:
No person may falsely hold himself or herself out as a certificate holder.
9. Based on the foregoing, the Respondent violated Section 468,629(1)(a), Florida
Statutes, by falsely holding himself out as a certificate holder without being properly licensed by
the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
WHEREFORE, Petitioner respectfully requests the Board enter an Order imposing ofie or
more of the following penalties: place on 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, requite continuing education, assess costs associated with
investigation and prosecution, impose any oT all penalties delineated within Section 455,227(2),
Florida Statutes, and/or any other relief the Board or Department is authorized to impose
pursuant to Chapters 468, 455, Florida Statutes, and/or the rules promulgated thereunder.
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Signed this iy day of (AOR 2006.
COUNSEL FOR DEPARTMENT:
Jessica Leigh
Assistant General Counsel
Department of Business and
Professional Regulation F |
1940 North Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2202
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Docket for Case No: 08-002739PL
Issue Date |
Proceedings |
Aug. 12, 2008 |
Order Closing File. CASE CLOSED.
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Jul. 30, 2008 |
Notice of Filing filed.
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Jul. 17, 2008 |
Respondent`s Motion for a Continuance and to Dismiss Complaint filed.
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Jul. 07, 2008 |
Letter to Judge Sartin from F. Bennardo regarding request for continuance filed.
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Jun. 25, 2008 |
Order of Pre-hearing Instructions.
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Jun. 25, 2008 |
Notice of Hearing (hearing set for August 19, 2008; 9:30 a.m.; Boca Raton, FL).
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Jun. 23, 2008 |
Notice of Substitution of Counsel (filed by E. Duffy).
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Jun. 18, 2008 |
(Petitioner`s) Response to Initial Order filed.
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Jun. 18, 2008 |
Letter response to the Initial Order filed.
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Jun. 10, 2008 |
Initial Order.
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Jun. 10, 2008 |
Notice of Appearance (filed by F. Bennardo).
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Jun. 10, 2008 |
Election of Rights filed.
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Jun. 10, 2008 |
Administrative Complaint filed.
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Jun. 10, 2008 |
Agency referral filed.
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