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The City-County Council last night approved the city’s first Office of Code Enforcement, making permanent a department created by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard in February.

The office, designed to streamline the city’s licensing, permitting, inspection and abatement functions, will become permanent Jan. 1.

Historically, the departments of Metropolitan Development, Parks and Recreation, Public Safety and Public Works, and the Office of Finance and Management each had related but separate code-enforcement authority.

The new department will handle many of those code-enforcement functions, including licenses and permits; building, infrastructure, and zoning inspections; property maintenance; unsafe buildings; high weeds and grass; illegal dumping; forestry; towing; and weights & measures.

“We have worked diligently over the past four months to streamline code-enforcement processes that have been unnecessarily complicated and often outdated,” Rick Powers, director of the Office of Code Enforcement, said in a prepared statement. “By consolidating code-enforcement functions into one department and providing a one-stop shop, we are more accessible and able to provide better service to the public.”

More information about the office can be found at www.indy.gov/oce.

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