FINE AND FEE STRUCTURE
FINES
a. Trucks, campers, trailers, boats or similar vehicles parked on any street or in view from any street for more than a 48 hour period--- $50 per vehicle per day
b. Yard sign(s)--- $50 per sign per day
c. No operable approved yard light--- $5 per day
d. Trash can(s) obviously visible from the street--- $5 per can per day
e. Dead tree(s)--- $50 per tree per day after time given for service to be acquired
f. Unauthorized tree cutting--- $200 per tree
g.
Unauthorized construction--- $100 per structure and $100 per
structure per day until a permit is submitted.
If denied, the structure must be removed, and a $100 fine per structure
per day will be assessed from the date of denial until the structure is removed.
h. Failure to remove hazardous or unsightly debris--- $50 per day
i. Lawn; Leaf Clippings and Garden Waste improper disposal --- $100.00 per occurrence
j. Non compliance of numbering private docks --- $50.00 per month
A1. Building permit and Processing fee (for new construction) --- $200
A2. Building additions (large over $10,000) --- $100
A3. Building additions (small $10,000 or under)--- $50
B1.
B2. Transfer Fee-rentals, (to pay for the necessity to have two ledgers for the same property) --- $100
2. Property owners who do not receive their notification due to vacation, etc. will be treated like an extension.
3. The total days for the combined extensions should not exceed 90.
4. Two people will be designated to review and grant extensions and no one other than those two people will be allowed to approve extensions. This will assure consistent application of extensions.
5. All extensions will be in writing. The property owner and the POA will be given a copy of the extension. Copies of all extensions will be maintained at the POA to eliminate disputes and so that adherence to the extension can be monitored.
6. The written extension will contain a requirement that the property owner notify the POA when the violation has be rectified or to request another extension. If the POA does not hear from the property owner by the expiration date of the extension, the POA will attempt to contact the property owner.
7. There will not be a maximum limit placed on fines.
8.
There will be a penalty of twice the normal amount assessed for
repeat violators. If a property
owner is found to have committed the same violation more than three times in a
12 month period, said property owner will be assessed this penalty amount.
This will discourage repeat offenders.
9. When there is a dispute as to when a violation was corrected and therefore the amount of fines owed, it will be the responsibility of the property owner to prove when the violation was corrected. The property owner can use a dated receipt for corrections for which receipts are applicable. In cases where receipts are not applicable, the property owner will be required to provide written statements from two of his/her neighbors who are in a position to know when the correction was made. If the property owner cannot supply either of these forms of proof, the fees will be assessed up to the date on which the property owner notified the POA that the violation was corrected.
10. If the property owner doesn’t believe he/she has committed the violation, the property owner will have the right to appeal the violation to the Shorewood Forest Grievance Committee. The grievance committee will only be allowed to determine whether or not the violation is valid. They will not be allowed to increase or reduce fines associated with a valid violation. This right of appeal will be contained in the original notification of violation. If the grievance committee denies the appeal, fines should begin to accumulate five days from the date of the notice of denial if the violation is not rectified by that time. If these property owners need an extension, they will be granted no more than the latter of 90 days from the date of the original notice of violation or 30 days from the date of the appeal denial notice. This will discourage property owners from appealing violations as a means of delaying correcting a violation or reducing the number of days for which they accumulate fines.
11. The POA will place a lien on the property of anyone that does not correct a violation and does not pay his/her accumulated fines within 90 days of the original notice of violation. If the property owner does not pay the outstanding fines within 60 days of the date the lien was placed on the property, the POA will foreclose on the property. All costs associated with a lien or foreclosure will be charged to the property owner. This information should also be included in the original notification of a violation and in all written extensions.
12. Although we stipulate that only one written notice of a violation will be sent to property owners, the POA attorney will send a second notice to the property owner 30 days before we place a lien on the property.
13. When a property owner is unable to pay the entire amount of his/her fines at once, we will be agreeable to working out a reasonable payment plan.
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