JACKSON, Miss. ( WJTV ) – There's more trouble for Jackson's Thalia Mara Hall. The city has 10 days to present a plan to fix 22 fire code violations at the facility.

In early August, the city was forced to close the facility after "early microbial activity" was discovered following a recent malfunction with the HVAC controller in the facility.

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Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance and State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney asked fire inspectors to conduct an inspection of Thalia Mara Hall on Tuesday, September 10. This comes after the State Fire Marshal's Office received a complaint on Monday, September 9 in reference to safety issues.

"I had a lot of complaints just from citizens in the Jackson area," Chaney stated.

The report showed in addition to mold growing in the facility, human waste was found on the balcony of Thalia Mara Hall.

"Homeless people may have been there and used the place for living quarters, maybe had defecated on the balcony," said Chaney.

Some fire extinguishers at Thalia Mara Hall are not up to date, and it's been almost 20 years since some of them have been replaced. Chaney said Jackson's building code inspectors should have replaced some of the extinguishers years ago.

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If the city does not submit a plan, Chaney said things are going to get serious.

"If they do not give us a plan, we will red tag the building. And when we do that, it requires us to be with anyone that enters the building. And we could sanction the city with code violations, and they can be fined. I don't think we'll ever go that far," he said.

Chaney is hopeful that the city will give their plan of remediation.

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