Landlords will be banned from using bailiffs to seize property for rent arrears, without going to court.
Pomerantz said in court documents that the Dreier firm's creditors, attorneys and clients are demanding payments and attempting to seize property.
Before tax collectors can seize property and sell it to collect real estate taxes they have to notify people who have an interest in the property.
This tactic, which has become infamous due to its abuse in drug cases, allows the police to seize property without convicting, or even indicting, its owner of any crime.
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Jonathan Heath, a private economic consultant, notes that poor documentation of loans, along with laws that make it virtually impossible to seize property, may make the recovery rate even lower.
Since the urban decline of the 1960s, courts have expanded the definition of "public use" to mean "public benefit, " allowing developers who promised higher tax revenue and jobs to seize property considered blighted.
His proposal has recently run into some political snags, but he plans to push ahead with it, offering the lawyers higher commissions for making faster collections and giving them the power to seize property, freeze bank accounts and halt delivery of supplies to businesses.
In 2006 inspectors gave the complex a score of 11 on a 100 point scale and moved to seize the property.
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In those states, voters halted the rising national trend of allowing primarily local governments to seize personal property for private commercial development.
Like many others, he was disturbed by the Supreme Court's misbegotten decision in 2005 to allow governments to seize private property for private purposes.
Then, if the IRS ever does decide to seize their property, it will send them a new threatening notice, as if the first one never went out.
The City, with Revenue Commissioner Keith Richardson taking the lead, is considering a measure that would allow the City to seize personal property to settle tax debts.
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Trading was halted before the market opened, ahead of an announcement from Chinese Estates that said late Wednesday the company may appeal any move by the government to seize its property.
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So taxpayers who don't appeal after receiving an inappropriate "Notice of Intent to Levy" have theoretically lost their right to go to court if the IRS does later decide to seize their property.
In Kelo, the Supreme Court held that held that the Constitution allows governments to seize private property and transfer it from one private land owner to another in the name of economic development.
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The bill makes it harder for federal and state law-enforcement officials to seize and hold property that has a suspected crime connection.
The production of valuable goods and services is maximized with strong property rights when little is wasted in efforts to seize the surplus of others or to prevent others from seizing our surplus.
The Cultural Property Implementation Act of 1983 gives the feds the power, among other things, to seize artifacts documented in the inventory of archeological sites or museums of countries that ratified a 1970 Unesco convention on illicit antiquities.
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