The Code Compliance program will be administered by the Office of Administrative Hearings.

• Hearing examiners are lawyers and serve as part-time, unclassified employees.
• Hearings will be held promptly and be informal, but all testimony will be sworn.
• The hearing examiner must issue a decision and make findings of fact from the record and conclusions of law in support of the decision within ten days from the close of the hearing.
• A person charged with a violation specified as subject to the 50% reduction for correction of the violation may offer proof of correction to the hearing examiner. The offer of proof of correction may be submitted in person or by mail. The hearing examiner must verify whether the violation has been corrected with the city department that issued the notice.
• The decision of the Hearing Examiner may be appealed to the Administrative Review Officer (The City Manager's designee for reviewing the decisions of the Hearing Examiner.)
• The city manager has adopted administrative regulations for the conduct of hearings and for the enforcement of the Cincinnati Municipal Code through the issuance of notices of civil offenses.
• Neither the City, the federal government, the state of Ohio, nor any city, federal or state agency or political subdivision will be liable for a civil fine.