Just five days after the state Department of Environmental Protection issued a $1.49 million fine for continued non-compliance of the Coastal Area Facilities Review Act at the site of Hotel LBI in Ship Bottom, an Ocean County Superior Court judge ordered the temporary certificate of occupancy for the luxury resort to be extended another six months.

Judge Marlene L. Ford issued the ruling Dec. 21, two weeks after a status conference on a legal action that has been before the court for more than a…