State v. James

The only issue on this appeal is whether the state must give notice, reasonably calculated to inform a nonresident owner of a building of building code *602violations in order to maintain an action to collect forfeitures from such owner. We think so.

It is true that the state building' code has the force and effect of statutes.1 However, this does not dispense with the requirement, once violations of the code have been found, that there must be notice of such violations before a forfeiture can be imposed.

Forfeitures are not favored in the law 2 and statutes imposing the same are subject to the…