Philadelphia legislators mull sending negligent property owners bill for repairs after grace period

Some negligent property owners could soon face an new ultimatum: Fix significant property violations or city workers will do it and send you the bill.

On Thursday city legislators put forward a proposal that would give owners of certain multi-family and vacant single-family residential buildings a one-month notice to repair particular violations of the city’s property maintenance code that are considered public nuisances.

Under the proposal, failure to make the repairs or offer a good-faith effort to fix them would allow the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections to dispatch crews to repair those issues and then bill the property owners.

Any property owner who shirks paying the bill within 30 days would face a lien filed against the property, according to the proposal.

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