Panel backs tougher nuisance-abatement penalties and foreclosure timing changes
HB481 would boost fines for prolonged public nuisances, remove the $15,000 cap on total fines, allow attorney fees in cost recovery, and adjust foreclosure timing for unpaid liens; sponsor cited a tragic local homicide as rationale and the committee approved the bill after a grammatical amendment.
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Representative Booth presented HB481 to strengthen local governments’ ability to abate persistent public nuisances. Key changes include increasing the maximum daily fine to $500 per day after one calendar year, removing the $15,000 aggregate fine cap, allowing nuisance abatement boards to include attorney time and labor, and revising foreclosure procedures to allow foreclosure after three months in certain cases following a two-year abatement period.
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