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Property owners urge end to municipal utility lien practice in testimony on Senate Bill 118
Summary
Multiple housing providers and industry representatives testified in favor of Senate Bill 118, which would bar municipal utility corporations from certifying tax liens against property owners for unpaid tenant utility charges and would create complaint and appeal processes for disputed charges.
The Senate Local Government Committee held a second hearing on Senate Bill 118, a proposal to limit municipal utility corporations’ ability to certify property tax liens for unpaid tenant utility charges and to create an appeals process for disputed municipal service bills.
Deborah Collins, administrator of the Ohio Real Estate Investors Association, told the committee that municipal utilities “can place liens on property owners for unpaid tenant utility bills, sometimes without prior notice and regardless of who was actually responsible for that…
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