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2011 SESSION
SB 1216 Delinquent sewer & water fees; authority to provide 30 days notice prior to recording lien.
Introduced by: Ralph K. Smith | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Delinquent sewer and water fees and charges; notice. Requires that prior to recording a lien on an owner's property for a tenant's unpaid water or sewer fees, the water or sewer authority shall provide the owner with 30 days' written notification. The owner can avoid the lien by paying the obligations. If the former tenant pays the authority after the owner already has, the property owner shall be entitled to receive a refund and shall be subrogated against the former tenant in place of the authority in the amount paid by the property owner. Additionally, this legislation requires an authority to notify a property owner, if he so requests, of a tenant's delinquent water bill when a tenant's water bill has become 15 days delinquent. Furthermore, a locality or service authority may not deny service to a new tenant for unpaid fees and charges unless a lien has been recorded against the property owner. This bill is identical to HB 2425.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/11 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102756D pdf
- 02/01/11 Senate: Committee substitute printed 11105016D-S1 pdf
- 03/03/11 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1216ER) pdf
- 03/25/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/12/11 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102756D
- 01/12/11 Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 02/01/11 Senate: Reported from Local Government with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/11 Senate: Committee substitute printed 11105016D-S1
- 02/03/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/11 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/11 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/11 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 11105016D-S1
- 02/04/11 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1216S1
- 02/07/11 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/11 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/11 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/11 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/11 House: Read first time
- 02/09/11 House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 02/10/11 House: Assigned CC & T sub: #2
- 02/18/11 House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/11 House: Read second time
- 02/22/11 House: Passed by temporarily
- 02/22/11 House: Read third time
- 02/22/11 House: Passed House (94-Y 2-N)
- 02/22/11 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 2-N)
- 03/03/11 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/03/11 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1216ER)
- 03/03/11 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/11 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/25/11 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 529 (effective 7/1/11)
- 03/25/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529)