AL HB319

Class 7 municipalities may adopt alternative procedures through city council ordinances to declare overgrown grass and weeds as public nuisances and provide for their abatement, instead of using standard procedures in Article 4, Section 11-67-60 of Alabama Code.

Abatement costs assessed under municipal ordinances shall be collected as weed liens following the same procedures outlined in Section 11-67-66, Code of Alabama 1975.

Municipalities may assess abatement costs against properties purchased by the State of Alabama or at tax sale, and such assessments remain enforceable despite subsequent property redemption or state sale.

Property owners redeeming property or purchasing at state sale must accept the property subject to any existing municipal assessments for weed abatement.

The act became effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor, passed by the House on March 11, 2010 and the Senate on April 6, 2010.