A boarding house owner who did not have a current building warrant of fitness has been fined $11,060 in Auckland District Court.
Colin Marks, who owns a boarding house in Ponsonby, faced two charges of failing to meet fire safety standards and failing to display a building warrant of fitness.
On the
first charge he was fined $5000, plus $10 a day for each of the 556 days he did not have a warrant. On the second charge he was fined $500.
The prosecution was a warning to all commercial property owners, Auckland City Council manager of compliance monitoring Barry Smedts said.
Under the Building Act (1991), a building was considered unsafe if it did not have a building warrant which covered features such as automatic sprinklers and emergency lighting, lifts, air conditioning, fire hose reels and fire escapes.
- NZPA
