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An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, commonwealth of Pennsylvania, adopting a schedule of attorney fees in connection with the collection of taxes, tax claims and tax liens pursuant to Act 1 of 1996 and Act 20 of 2003 and adopting a schedule of charges, expenses and fees pursuant to the act of May 16, 1923, as amended, 53 p.s. §7101, §7103, and §7106, which ordinance repeals any other ordinances inconsistent herewith relating to a schedule of attorney fees pursuant to act 1 of 1996
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WHEREAS, the County of Allegheny (hereinafter "Municipality") is required from time-to-time to enforce by various means the collection of unpaid taxes, tax claims, and tax liens through the independent Office of the County Treasurer (“Treasurer”) (hereinafter referred to as “Claim” or “Claims”); and
WHEREAS, the expense of such enforced collection, when absorbed by the Municipality constitutes a further demand on the Municipality's resources; and
WHEREAS, Act 1 of 1996 (hereinafter “Act 1”) and Act 20 of 2003 (hereinafter “Act 20”) amend, inter alia, §3 of the Pennsylvania Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law (hereinafter the “Act”), Act of May 16, 1923, PL 207, §3, as amended, 53 P.S. §7106 to permit a municipality as that term is defined in the Act, to recover reasonable Attorney fees in connection with the collection of Claims from the persons and property owing such Claims; and
WHEREAS, §1, §2, and §3 of the Act, as amended, 53 P.S. §§7101, 7103, and 7106, respectively, permit the Municipality, through its duly elected Treasurer, to recover as part of each unpaid Claim, among other things, various charges, expenses and fees, and Attorney fees relating to the failure to pay the Claims promptly and subsequent enforced collection of same; and
WHEREAS, the Municipality and the Treasurer desire to exercise all such legal authority in order to encourage timely payment and collection of Claims, and to reduce, if not eliminate, the expense associa...
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