New case law clarifies the statute of limitations for foreclosing municipal liens in a case where state statutes pointed to one deadline and rules governing government code enforcement boards provided another.
It emerged from a case involving Riviera Beach’s attempt to collect on a code enforcement lien recorded 12 years earlier against commercial real estate belonging to J & B Motel Corp. The city recorded the lien in 2003 but waited until 2015 to file for foreclosure against J & B Motel Corp., Demolition King Inc. and mortgage lender Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
