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Board authorizes civil abatement path for vacant, unsafe properties with non-owner occupants
Summary
Marion County approved staff authorization to seek circuit-court injunctions to abate nuisance conditions — including unsafe structures — in properties occupied by non-owners, and directed code enforcement to proceed when statutory criteria are met.
Marion County commissioners voted June 3 to authorize county staff and the county attorney’s office to pursue civil actions and injunctions to abate nuisance conditions where properties are unsafe and occupied by non-owners.
Assistant County Attorney Linda Blackburn and Robin Huff of Code Enforcement presented a case summary in which both recorded owners had died (2011 and 2017) and non-owner occupants remained in the structure. Blackburn told…
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