AL SB273

Municipalities may adopt alternate procedures to abate overgrown grass and weeds on properties where previous abatement has occurred or been attempted under existing state law (Articles 2 or 4 of Chapter 67, Title 11 of the Code of Alabama 1975).

Reasonable costs of abatement conducted under the alternate procedures shall be assessed and collected as a weed lien in the same manner as provided in Section 11-67-66.

Weed lien assessments apply to land purchased by the State of Alabama or by purchasers at tax sale, and subsequent redemption or state sale does not discharge the municipality's lien.

Any person redeeming property or purchasing land at state sale with an existing weed lien assessment takes the property subject to that assessment, whether the lien was levied before or after the tax sale.

Municipalities that have adopted alternate abatement procedures under other general or local law may continue following those procedures or elect to follow the procedures in this act; effective immediately upon passage and gubernatorial approval.