SB42 Summary

• Applies exclusively to Class 8 municipalities and establishes procedures for abating overgrown grass or weeds exceeding 12 inches in height deemed a public nuisance due to health, safety, fire, or aesthetic concerns.

• Enforcing official must serve written notice on property owner (by delivery, first-class mail, or posting) requiring abatement within a specified timeframe or requesting a hearing before an administrative official within 10 days.

• Property owner may appeal the administrative official's decision to circuit court within 10 days by filing notice of appeal and bond; municipality cannot abate the nuisance during pending appeals.

• Upon owner's failure to abate, municipality may perform abatement work and assess all costs (labor, equipment, administrative, legal, materials) against the property as a "weed lien" collected through regular ad valorem tax bills with standard foreclosure procedures.

• Weed liens survive property redemptions and tax sales, can be recorded in probate court, and are satisfied upon payment with notification to county tax collecting official.