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I have a white car getting around in Menasha with code enforcement on it. I look on the net but could not fine much about it, So I was wondering if anyone here would like to tell me it is. Thanks

Here they are the main enforcers of the local ordinances. We as police CAN do it, but we mostly only handle noise, curfew, and dog ordinances. Junk vehicles also depending on the department.

Everything else is usually handled by code enforcement, things such as building codes, high grass etc.

And they can write some nasty fines:)

And they can write some nasty fines:)

No kidding! In Portland, you technically need a permit to change your porch light fixture to the tune of a couple of hundred bucks. That's pretty hard to enforce, but it's on the books.

I lived in the city for a very short time. While I lived there and owned this older house, the water pipe between the meter and my house started leaking. In 1976, the city wanted a $200 permit for me to replace the pipe myself. I admit, I dug it up and replaced on the weekend when none of the "code" vehicles were working. Considering what my pay was then and what comparable pay is now, it would be the equivalent of about a thousand bucks today just for the permit.

I hate that stuff, it's gone beyond making sure construction jobs are done correctly and become a revenue gathering device. That's why I sold that house, moved away and will never even live in that county again.

Thank you for your comments. For someone new to the county, I'am slowly getting use to seeing so many LE cars bewteen the city I've been to. they Appleton and Oshkosh. Where I lived in Australia there are up to 6 police stations for 350,000 people and served by the same LE called the A.F.P. Australian Federal Police. A part of ithat is the A.C.T. policing. AFP Homepage - Australian Federal Police (http://www.afp.gov.au)