PRINTER'S NO. 423
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
386
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY GOODMAN, CARROLL, COHEN, DeLUCA, GIBBONS, HARKINS,
JAMES, KNOWLES, MASSER, MATZIE, MILLARD, MURT, READSHAW,
ROEBUCK AND SCHLOSSBERG, FEBRUARY 9, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 9, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in neighborhood blight reclamation and
revitalization, providing for divestiture of tax claims and
municipal liens upon agreement of governing bodies.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6141 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 6141. [(Reserved).] Divestiture of tax claims and municipal
liens upon agreement of majority of governing bodies.
(a) General rule.--A majority of the governing bodies of a
county, municipality and school district that levy real property
taxes on a property regarded as a public nuisance and targeted
for demolition may petition the court of common pleas for the
county in which the property is situated to divest all county,
municipal and school district tax claims and municipal liens
against the property if the governing body of each county,
municipality or school district represented in the majority have
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adopted a resolution indicating that governing body's approval
of the divestiture of its tax claims and municipal liens against
the property and of the filing of the petition.
(b) Attorney fees and court costs.--If not all of the
governing bodies of the county, municipality and school district
that levy real property taxes on the property have adopted a
resolution authorized under subsection (a), then the court shall
award attorney fees and court costs to the governing bodies that
represent the majority of the governing bodies which filed the
petition.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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