TO: | Honorable Joe Nixon, Chair, House Committee on Civil Practices |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB378 by Dutton (Relating to the remedies available to a person to abate a public nuisance in a municipality.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
If a suit is brought against a municipality, the municipality would incur legal costs in preparing and presenting its defense. If the municipality is court-ordered to take actions, additional costs would be incurred for warning the person who uses the premise that creates the nuisance or for filing a lawsuit against that person. If the municipality prevails in a lawsuit against the person with the nuisance, the municipality could recoup court costs. If the municipality must purchase the property or exercise eminent domain, it would incur the cost of the acquisition and maintenance of the property. Those costs could be at least partially recouped through reselling the property.
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LBB Staff: | JK, GO, JB, DLBa
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