DANG!
Don’t pay property taxes, and the government will steal your land too.
Same thing with eminent domain.
U.S. private land is a myth.
Need to take some of the guvmint workers out and horsewhip the.
Tax leeches!
Tar.
Feathers.
Fencerail.
Rope.
Use only as directed.
A few years ago we locked a woman up here for $127 in unpaid wage tax.
I guess the judge was feeling charitable, since they didn’t confiscate the property she pays taxes on. /sarc
It’s still better than having a landlord.
I expect the dog has been shot too ;-)
Sorry. I refuse to join your knee-jerk fest over a 10 word excerpt and an inflammatory headline.
Unless this town’s ordinances are quite different from many others there must be more to this story. The usual process would be for a citation to be issued and if the problem was not fixed or the citation challenged a hearing would be held before a code enforcement board.
At that time either fine would be levied or the charges dismissed or an extension given to the cited party. If the fine goes unpaid for a certain number of days the board usually files a lien against the property. This all takes some time.
Now the town may opt for taking the case to court after all internal processes have been completed. That depends on whether state statute allows for such a measure. This is usually done so that a judgment can be entered against a violator. I’ve never before come across a judge sentencing somebody to jail for an offense against a code enforcement ordinance.
If the time frame given is correct it seems the women was taken to court without having any hearing before the government body that issued the citation. So in this town (or in Tennessee) is property maintenance considered a police matter? I ask because law enforcement officers would be the ones empowered to cite somebody and compel them to go before a judge. Are code enforcement officers regarded as having police powers? That would be scary. It sure gives too much potential for people having their due process rights run over roughshod.
Thank God everything is under control and we can go after the real criminals in society.
That’s 6 hours more confinement than any Ebola case worker has received.
I think photos of the overgrown yard would be appropriate in order to make any argument either for or against her........
Check out the 39 second point on the video at the local news site......LOL!
Not surprising, the property had been cleared by the time the news crew had arrived..........
And here I had offered to help with the lawn care if I was in that area, assuming her husband was military deployed when all along, he's back home now...........
But if she was an illegal alien they’d overlook her yard.