HB 1346 Summary

• Allows a county, city, or town that wins a nuisance abatement action to perform the cleanup themselves or hire a contractor if the property owner fails to begin abatement within 7 days of the court order.

• County, city, or town must send the property owner a certified statement of costs via certified mail or personal service, which may include an administrative fee up to the greater of $200 or 10% of actual abatement costs.

• Property owner has 10 days to pay the amount in the certified statement or the county, city, or town files it with the county auditor.

• County auditor places the unpaid abatement costs on the property tax duplicate and collects the amount through the regular tax collection process.

• Collected funds are deposited into the general fund of the county, city, or town that performed the abatement work.