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2008 SESSION
HB 679 Zoning ordinance; civil penalties for violations.
Introduced by: Robert D. Hull | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Civil penalties for violations of zoning ordinance. Requires the general district court, upon a finding of liability, to order a violator of a zoning ordinance to abate or remedy the violation in compliance with the zoning ordinance within a period not to exceed 30 days. In addition, the bill provides that should the violator choose to waive trial, admit liability, and pay the civil penalty, the violator will have to first agree in writing to abate or remedy the violation within a specified timeframe. The bill also provides that when civil penalties for a zoning ordinance violation total $5,000 or more, the violation may be prosecuted as a criminal misdemeanor. This bill incorporates HB 1090.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 087042324 pdf
- 02/01/08 House: Committee substitute printed 082055552-H1 pdf
- 02/11/08 House: Printed as engrossed 082055552-EH1 pdf
- 03/07/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB679ER) pdf
- 04/14/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 087042324
- 01/08/08 House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 02/01/08 House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/08 House: Committee substitute printed 082055552-H1
- 02/04/08 House: Read first time
- 02/05/08 House: Read second time
- 02/05/08 House: Committee substitute agreed to 082055552-H1
- 02/05/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/07/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/08/08 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/11/08 House: Read second time
- 02/11/08 House: Amendments by Delegate Hull agreed to
- 02/11/08 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB679EH1
- 02/11/08 House: Printed as engrossed 082055552-EH1
- 02/12/08 House: Read third time and passed House (90-Y 8-N)
- 02/12/08 House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (90-Y 8-N)
- 02/12/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/13/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/13/08 Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 02/26/08 Senate: Reported from Local Government with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/08 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 03/03/08 Senate: Read third time
- 03/03/08 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 03/03/08 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 03/03/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/03/08 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/08 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/08 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/05/08 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (87-Y 5-N)
- 03/05/08 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (87-Y 5-N)
- 03/07/08 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB679ER)
- 03/07/08 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/08 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/08 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 727 (effective 7/1/08)
- 04/14/08 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727)