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Lackawanna County holds first reading of ordinance to create demolition and rehabilitation fund
Summary
County commissioners heard a first reading of an ordinance authorized by Pennsylvania Act 48 of 2024 that would add a $250 fee on tax-sale and foreclosure purchasers to seed a county demolition and rehabilitation fund administered by the county land bank.
Lackawanna County commissioners held a first reading on Feb. 19 of an ordinance that would create a county demolition and rehabilitation fund funded by a $250 fee on each purchaser at tax sales and mortgage-foreclosure sheriff’s sales.
The ordinance, presented as a first reading by Kristen Magnotta, Director of Economic and Community Development, implements authority in Act 48 of 2024 and directs the Lackawanna County Tax Claim Bureau and the Lackawanna County Sheriff to collect the fee. "It allows the Lackawanna County Tax Claim Bureau to add a fee of $250 to the cost of all tax delinquent property sales and the Lackawanna County Sheriff's Department to add a fee of $250 to the sale of all…
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