BY SHERRY CONOHAN
Staff Writer
MONMOUTH BEACH — The owner of a large Ocean Avenue home on the beachfront, which has been rented out for weddings in the past, complained to the Borough Commission about the code enforcement officer paying a visit.
Louis Tsakiris, who is under a court order not to hire out the house for weddings or other events, said the code enforcement officer arrived around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, and asked to come in and see what was going on, and to talk to three or four of the guests. He said he refused to let him in.
“You’re going to have to do something different,” Tsakiris told the commission at a recent meeting, asserting that was illegal. “You may not do what you did.”
“You understand you’re under a court order not to use your house as a business,” borough attorney Dennis Collins told him.
Tsakiris claimed that the judge who issued the order, Superior Court Judge Clarkson S. Fisher Jr., was among the guests in his home at the time that the code enforcement officer, Paul Vitale, stopped by his house.
He said Vitale asked if the wedding going on was a family event.
“I told him it’s none of your business and he couldn’t talk to the guests,” Tsakiris said.
Tsakiris demanded to know who sent Vitale to his house and for the commission to submit the answer to that question to him in writing.
Collins said afterward that the borough took no immediate action. He said the matter was under investigation, noting that Tsakiris later said the event was for a friend of his daughter.
Police Chief Richard White said police have issued about a dozen summons for cars from guests at Tsakiris’ house being parked in the parking lot of the adjacent Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion, the borough beach club, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., when parking is prohibited.
Beach-goers at the bathing pavilion regularly saw weddings being performed on the house’s outdoor terrace on the oceanfront, with the guests gathered around, before the judge handed down the court order, which held that a business cannot be conducted in a residential zone.

