SB 391 Indiana Senate · 2020 Regular Session

Property matters.

Summary
Requires a local health officer to have information establishing probable cause of a public health law or rule violation before a court may issue certain orders concerning the property. (Current law requires reliable information.) Requires a health officer's order of abatement to include the name of the person making the complaint and requires the health officer to report to the county prosecutor certain information concerning a person who provided false information. Requires the health and hospital corporation of Marion County to post notice of an ordinance pending final action on the county's Internet web site. Requires a health officer to provide information concerning a person who made a false report concerning a communicable disease to the person against whom a false report was made. States that a dwelling is unfit for human habitation when the dwelling places a person's health or life in danger. (Current law states that the dwelling is dangerous or detrimental to life or health.) Requires a health officer to provide notice concerning an unfit dwelling and provide a reasonable amount of time to comply with the notice, and removes language providing that each day the dwelling remains unfit is a separate offense. Specifies language to be included in a notice to quit concerning personal property left on the property after eviction. Repeals the chapter requiring a landlord to transfer a tenant's abandoned personal property to a warehouseman or storage facility, and adds language providing that a landlord is not responsible for a tenant's personal property once it is abandoned. Specifies that a landlord is not responsible for a health code violation by a tenant. Reduces the fines for certain ordinance violations from: (1) $2,500 to $250; and (2) $7,500 to $750.
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Introduced Jan 15, 2020 Last action Jan 15, 2020
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Mike Bohacek
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