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County attorney raises capacity and scope concerns about bill authorizing local enforcement of landlord-tenant law
Summary
County Attorney Ron Karl told the Board the bill would authorize counties and cities to enforce landlord-tenant laws and appoint receivers for multifamily properties but lacks needed limits and procedural detail.
County Attorney Ron Karl told the Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 14 that a bill under consideration at the statehouse would give counties and cities new authority to enforce landlord-tenant law and to seek receiverships for multifamily properties.
Karl said the draft statute is broad and raises both technical and operational concerns. He told the commissioners the bill, as written, appears to allow counties to bring both civil and criminal enforcement actions and to place receivers over multifamily residential properties. The county attorney said criminal enforcement is inappropriate for counties because criminal enforcement is normally the district attorney’s responsibility and because many…
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