Sioux Falls City, South Dakota has established an online Code Violation Website listing individual or businesses that have been issued a citation for non-compliance with city code. The following article depicts the function for usage of this website.

Your neighbor hasn't mowed his lawn in months, or there's a huge camper parked illegally out front. Or maybe there's an abandoned building on your block. 

Now you can easily find out whether the city has issued a citation to the property owner, whether its an individual or business. 

The city of Sioux Falls now has all of it's code violation citations posted on-line. With just a few strokes of a keyboard, you can look up an individual or business to see whether they've been ticketed for not keeping up with city code.

Remember Toby Smythe? He's the landlord with 20 properties in the Sioux Falls area, including a run-down property in the 11th street area. We reported last July that Smythe was facing 5-thousand dollars in fines from the city for not keeping his properties in good condition. 

If you type his name in on the city's new code enforcement web site, he and his wife Barbara come up more than 90 times in the past year, mostly for garbage on their various properties. 70 of those tickets are still pending, meaning prosecution is still on-going. 

You'll see many of the complaints on the site are for "maintaining a public nuisance." That can mean anything from trash in the yard, having unlicensed vehicles, trees that need to be trimmed and lawns that need to be mowed, to vacant buildings. 

You can find code violation citations dated back for one full year.
Code enforcement in the city is mostly on a complaint basis, so if you see someone not keeping up their property, it's important to report it to the city. 

To access the Code Violation list website, click here.