Pierre To Increase Fees For Property Maintenance Violations

Pierre To Increase Fees For Property Maintenance Violations

PIERRE — The City of Pierre is looking to get tougher on lazy lawn mowers, slothy snow scoopers and other property maintenance issues. The City Commission Tuesday night approved a reset of fees from 100-dollars up to possibly 500-dollars for continued offenders…

Finance Officer Twila Hight says the process of having the city do the maintenance and assessing that work back to a property owners taxes will remain in place, on top of the stiffer penalties…

Hight says the city wants property owners to take responsibility for their land…

The increases will go into effect starting July 15th.