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Timestamp: 2018-07-16 00:33:23
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 7106', '§ 1', '§ 7101', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 3']

Township of Pine, PA Attorney Fees
§ 3-1 Short title.
§ 3-2 Expenses approved.
§ 3-3 Attorney fees approved.
§ 3-4 Procedure.
§ 3-5 Servicing charges, expenses and fees approved.
§ 3-6 Effective date and retroactivity.
§ 3-7 Assignment.
Chapter 3: Attorney Fees
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Pine 6-7-2004 by Ord. No. 318[1]. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Collection of real estate taxes — See Ch. A148.
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch. 3, Attorney Fees, adopted 3-20-2000 by Ord. No. 281.
Chapter 3 : Attorney Fees
This chapter shall be known as the "Tax, Tax Claim, Tax Lien, Municipal Claim and Municipal Lien Attorney Fees and Servicing Charges, Expenses and Fees Ordinance."
Title search. In any enforcement proceeding, the actual cost of a title search in an amount not to exceed $250 shall constitute a reasonable expense for each title search necessary for the initiation of each proceeding and compliance with Pa. R.C.P. 3129. The sum not to exceed $50 shall constitute a reasonable expense for each bringdown or update of the title search in connection with entry of judgment, issuance of execution, listing for sale or other action.
Preparation and presentation of motion for alternative service and delivery of the order of court, along with appropriate directions to the sheriff for service: $200.
Writ of execution; sheriff's sale of property or execution upon assumpsit judgment. The sum of $700 shall constitute reasonable attorney fees for preparation of all documents necessary for each execution upon any judgment pursuant to the Act. This sum shall include the preparation and filing of the praecipe for writ of execution, all sheriffs documents, preparation and service of notices of sheriffs sale, staying the writ of execution, and attendance at one sheriffs sale.
Hourly rate matters. The following schedule of attorney fees is hereby adopted and approved as reasonable attorney fees pursuant to Act 1 and Act 20, which fees shall be awarded to the municipality, its agents, counsel or assigns as compensation in all contested matters, and in all other matters not specifically referenced in § 3-3A above, undertaken in connection with the collection of claims, each as recorded and charged in units of 1/10th of an hour for all time devoted to enforcement and collection of the municipality's claims. Counsel, whether duly employed or duly appointed by the municipality, its agents or assigns, shall not deviate from this fee schedule absent a subsequent ordinance amending the same. Hourly rate matters include, but are not limited to, any matters where any defense, objection, motion, petition or appearance is entered in any phase of any proceeding by or on behalf of any Defendant or other interested party.
Fees to be accrued and claims to be filed. Fees shall accrue for all efforts in collection after the 30th day after the notice or after the 10th day of any required second notice under the Act, as amended, 53 P.S. § 7106, on all accounts referred to counsel for enforcement. Fees accumulated as a result of enforced collection shall be certified by duly appointed counsel for the municipality authorized to pursue collection of claims pursuant to the Act, or by counsel for the municipality's agents or assigns and, if not collected in due course with the debt as by voluntary payment, shall be included in any claims filed on behalf of the municipality or by its agents or assigns in the course of enforcement including any claims originally filed with the prothonotary, any claims filed with the sheriff or in any other claims filed or statements provided where attorney fees are due.
The following schedule of charges, expenses and fees (hereinafter collectively referred to as "servicing fees") is hereby approved and adopted by the municipality pursuant to §§ 1, 2 and 3 of the Act of May 16, 1923, as amended, 53 P.S. §§ 7101, 7103 and 7106, which amounts are the direct result of each person's or property's failure to pay claims promptly. The servicing fees established, assessed and collected hereunder shall be in addition to the record costs, § 3-3 attorney fees and § 3-2, expenses associated with legal proceedings initiated by or on behalf of the municipality to collect its claims.
Servicing of a claim or claims may result in voluntary payment without the initiation of enforcement proceedings. It is the intent of this § 3-5 to pass the cost of servicing on to the delinquent person or property as part of each claim. The recovery of servicing fees established herein shall not be contingent upon the initiation of enforcement proceedings. However, such servicing fees are due even where enforcement proceedings are initiated. The purpose of this section is to pass the cost and expense associated with delinquent collection on to the delinquent person or property and to make the municipality whole on all claims collected.
Filing municipal claim and filing municipal claim revivals: $15 per claim.
Servicing, including staffing, computers, office space, telephones, equipment, and materials:
For all delinquent and liened taxes, tax liens, municipal claims (filed or unfiled) and municipal liens: 10% of gross collections.
This chapter shall take effect on the date of enactment set forth below[1] and with respect to attorney fees pursuant to §§ 3-3 and 3-4 shall apply to all taxes, tax claims, tax liens, municipal claims, municipal liens, writs of scire facias, judgments or executions filed on or after December 19, 1990, or as otherwise provided by law.
Editor's Note: The "date of enactment set forth below" is 6-7-2004, the adoption date of Ord. No. 318.
In no event shall the municipality's right to charge and collect reasonable attorney fees pursuant to § 3-3 of this chapter be impaired by the fact that any claim may also include an attorney commission of 5% for claims filed prior to December 19, 1990. Any attorney fees assessed and collected under this chapter or any prior ordinances pursuant to Act 1 shall be in addition to any five-percent commission previously included in any claim or judgment thereon.
Attorney fees and expenses incurred in pending enforcement proceedings prior to the effective date of this chapter, pursuant to a prior ordinances adopted under Act 1, but not collected, shall remain due and owing in accordance therewith and shall be incorporated in any future statement, claim, pleading, judgment or execution. Attorney fees and expenses in any pending or new action incurred after the effective date of this chapter shall be incurred, charged and collected in accordance with the schedules and procedures set forth in this chapter.
The charges, expenses and fees set forth in § 3-5 of this chapter relate to all unpaid claims in favor of the municipality, its agents and assigns, and shall be retroactive to the date of each claim.
The municipality assigns the provisions of this chapter to any assignee of its claims unless the assignment limits the assignee's ability to collect such amounts. The municipality and its duly authorized agents and their counsel shall retain all rights to charge reasonable attorney fees, charges, expenses and fees in accordance with the provisions of this chapter in actions commenced under the Act and for servicing any claims retained by the municipality.