SB2841ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Ed Sullivan, Jr.

Filed: 5/13/2014

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2841

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2841 replacing lines 20 through 23 of page 1 and lines 1 through 15 of page 2 with the following:

"(c) In any case in which a defendant has failed to comply with a judgment ordering a defendant to correct a code violation or imposing any fine or other sanction as a result of a code violation, any expenses incurred by a county to enforce the judgment, including, but not limited to, attorney's fees, court costs, and costs related to property demolition or foreclosure, after they are fixed by a court of competent jurisdiction or a hearing officer, shall be a debt due and owing the county and may be collected in accordance with applicable law. Prior to any expenses being fixed by a hearing officer pursuant to this subsection (c), the county shall provide notice to the defendant that states that the defendant shall appear at a hearing before the administrative hearing officer to determine whether the defendant has failed to comply with the judgment. The notice shall set the date for the hearing, which shall not be less than 7 days after the date that notice is served. If notice is served by mail, the 7-day period shall begin to run on the date that the notice was deposited in the mail.".