What is the effect of liens on properties to assist with the payment of the Special Purpose fees?
In order to protect a municipal authoritys ability to collect unpaid sewer charges, Pennsylvania ‘s Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law provides that any rates or fees owed to a municipal authority for sewer service constitute a municipal lien against the property. This happens automatically as a matter of law. When LASA allows a property owner to sign an agreement to pay their Special Purpose Fee over a period of time rather than at the time it is due, under this law that unpaid Special Purpose Fee becomes a lien against the property. The Authority would record this lien in the Lancaster County Office of the Prothonotary for several reasons, as follows: o A recorded lien protects all the rate payers of the Authority by insuring that unpaid fees are paid by the current property owner before the property can transfer ownership. o If the Authority does not record its lien in a timely manner (by the end of the third year after the year the fee was due), the Authority loses its standing as a
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