KINGSLAND - Owners of six properties within the Kingsland city limits that the city council considers to be the biggest viola‐tors of city ordinances regarding unkempt properties will be re‐ceiving certified letters this week letting them know the property needs to clean up.
Mayor Sharon Crosby said the city council agreed on the six properties and decided to move forward with the letters during the council’s regular monthly meeting last Thursday.
Crosby, who was appointed mayor during last week’s meet‐ing (see story elsewhere), made a trip to the Cleveland County Courthouse in Rison last Friday to identify the owners of the properties in question. Even if the property is a rental property, the letter will be addressed to the owner rather than the renter since the property owner is con‐sidered the responsible party.
She said the violations range from having abandoned vehicles and mobile homes on the prop‐erty to overgrown weeds and clutter.
Kingsland currently has two ordinances that relate to the ap‐pearance of properties within the city limits. Ordinance 2008-2 requires premises to be “kept free from weeds, rank grass, garbage, rubbish and other unsightly and unsanitary articles.” Ordinance 2011-1 pro‐hibits the “storage of junked or unlicensed vehicles and inopera‐ble or abandoned mobile homes.”
Ordinance 2008-2 gives the property owners 20 days to clean up before the city can go onto the property to clean up the violation and pass along the clean-up charges to the property owner. Failure to pay for the clean up will result in a lien be‐ing placed on the property.
Ordinance 2011-1 allows an inoperable vehicle or mobile home to be kept on a property for 30 days before the city can take action. The cost of remov‐ing the vehicle or mobile home will be charged to the property owner in the form of a lien, not to exceed $100 towing and $25 per day storage. Anyone con‐victed...
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