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One apartment building owner recently gave us a copy of a \u201ccourtesy notice\u201d sent by well-meaning California city officials (\u201cCity\u201d) to advise all apartment building owners and homeowner associations within its boundaries that CA\u2019s newly minted balcony inspection laws require all balconies and other \u201cExterior Elevated Elements\u201d (\u201cEEE\u201d) to be inspected by January 1, 2025.\u00a0 That is generally true.\u00a0 The notice goes on, however, to not only mandate the reporting of \u201cidentified required repairs\u201d which the City obligates the property owners\/managers to correct (subject to proper permitting and re-inspection requirements), but to also threaten to open \u201cformal code enforcement cases\u201d as early as \u201cmid-2024\u201d for what appears to be all properties whose owners\/managers have not\u00a0already\u00a0submitted a report to the City. The inconsistencies and ambiguities in this City\u2019s \u201ccourtesy notice\u201d are nowhere to be found in the governing statutes, thus crystallizing just how misunderstood CA\u2019s balcony inspection laws happen to be, even by those in positions of authority who have a hand in their enforcement.\u00a0 As such, this article explores some of the details of the laws which seem to cause confusion and discusses the commonalities and differences between the law governing EEE inspections of multifamily dwelling units like apartment buildings and the one regulating EEE inspections of condominium complexes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What the Two Laws Have in Common One apartment building owner recently gave us a copy of a \u201ccourtesy notice\u201d sent by well-meaning California city officials (\u201cCity\u201d) to advise all apartment building owners and homeowner associations within its boundaries that CA\u2019s newly minted balcony inspection laws require all balconies and other \u201cExterior Elevated Elements\u201d (\u201cEEE\u201d) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/e5c4f6dc-afe8-4d13-be42-ab9f0f94ca5e.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e3-inspection-association.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}