After numerous complaints about derelict properties in the Village of Sunrise Beach, and no ability to define or prosecute offenders, the village board was presented with a draft of a nuisance ordinance to review to rectify the situation, at their Monday, March 13 meeting. 

Village Attorney Greg William’s office drafted the proposed ordinance, which includes nuisance definitions and rules of debris including but not limited to, weed cuttings, cut and fallen trees and shrubs, overgrown vegetation, rubbish and trash, lumber and firewood not piled neatly, parts of derelict cars or trucks, broken furniture, flammable material, which may endanger public safety or material which is unhealthy or unsafe and declared to be a public nuisance.

The draft also includes definitions pertaining to enforcement and hearing ‘officers’, liabilities, remedies, nuisance definitions, fines, abatement, hearings and defense.

The draft also proposes plans for the collection of abatement costs including; the cost of abatement may be assessed against the property, including administrative costs and removal of a vehicle. The city clerk shall cause a special taxbill against the property to be prepared in the amount of the abatement cost. The taxbill from the date of its issuance shall be a lien on the property until paid and shall be prima facie evidence of the recitals therein and of its validity. If not paid when due, it shall bear interest at the rate of eight percent per annum. 

A discussion and possible vote will be held at the next Sunrise Beach Board of Trustees meeting scheduled at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 10 at the Sunrise Beach City Hall.

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