This page was read by OCR. Text can misread numbers, dates or table columns. Check the PDF before quoting or interpreting it. Redacted areas remain redacted.
approved plan, the provisions of this section, and applicable law.
(d) If the ordinance is adopted by city council, the city shall have a lien on all property so
repaired or acquired under an approved spot blight abatement plan to recover the cost of
(i) improvements made by the city to bring the blighted property into compliance with
applicable building codes and (ii) disposal, if any. The lien on such property shall bear
interest at the legal rate of interest established in Section 6.2-301 of the Code of Virginia,
beginning on the date repairs are completed through the date on which the lien is paid.
The lien authorized by this section may be recorded as a lien among the land records of
the circuit court, which lien shall be treated in all respects as a tax lien and enforceable
as such. City council may recover its costs of repair from the owner or owners of record
of the property when the repairs were made at such time as the property is sold or
disposed of by such owner or owners. If the property is acquired by the city through
eminent domain, the cost of repair may be recovered when the city council sells or
disposes of the property. In either case, the costs of repair shall be recovered from the
proceeds of any such sale.
(e) If the blighted property is occupied for personal residential purposes, city council, in
approving the spot blight abatement plan, shall not acquire by eminent domain such
property if it would result in a displacement of the person or persons living in the
premises. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to acquisitions, under an
approved spot blight abatement plan, by the city of property which has been condemned
for human habitation for more than one year. In addition, if the city is exercising the
powers of eminent domain in accordance with Title 25.1 of the Code of Virginia, it may
provide for the temporary relocation of any person living in the blighted property
provided the relocation is within the financial means of such person.
(f) In lieu of the acquisition of blighted property by the exercise of eminent domain and in
lieu of the exercise of other powers granted in this section, city council may, by
ordinance, declare any blighted property to constitute a nuisance, and thereupon abate
the nuisance pursuant to Section 15.2-900 or Section 15.2-1115 of the Code of Virginia.
Such ordinance shall be adopted only after written notice by certified mail to the owner
or owners at the last known address of such owner as shown on the current real estate
tax assessment books or current real estate tax assessment records. If the owner does
not abate or remove the nuisance and the city abates or removes the nuisance at its
expense, the costs of the removal or abatement of the nuisance shall be a lien on the
property and such lien shall bear interest at the legal rate of interest established in Section
6.2-301 of the Code of Virginia, beginning on the date the removal or abatement is
completed through the date on which the lien is paid.
(g) The provisions of this division shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to any
remedies for spot blight abatement that may be authorized by law.
2. That this ordinance shall be in effect on and after October 1, 2025.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS ON AUGUST 12, 2025
Mabel Washington Jenkins, MMC Phillip Jones
City Clerk Mayor
A true copy, teste:
City ClerkJump to an indexed page (5 of 5)