HB 2870.E - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/16/04)

Declares that the purpose of this act is to establish a process, consistent throughout the state, by which low-income tenants would receive funds for relocation from property owners who fail to provide safe and sanitary housing after due notice of building code or health code violations.

Declares that it is also the purpose of this act to establish a review process, available to property owners and tenants, and to provide enforcement mechanisms to cities, towns, counties, or municipal corporations including the ability to advance relocation funds to tenants who are displaced as a result of a property owner's failure to remedy building code or health code violations and later to collect the full amounts of these relocation funds, along with interest and penalties, from property owners.