Saline County, AR Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

01 of the county code, the Quorum Court first passes a resolution declaring a specific house, building or structure a nuisance, describing it and naming the owners and lienholders if known. Before the vote, the county mails notice of the meeting date and the right to be heard; if the owner is unknown, nonresident or unreachable, notice is posted on the premises and served by publication with an attorney ad litem appointed. Once declared, a certified copy of the resolution is mailed to the owner and lienholders and posted on the structure.

If the nuisance is not torn down or otherwise abated within thirty days of that posting, the County Judge or a designee removes it, may sell the structure or salvageable material at public auction after ten days' published notice, and pays proceeds to the County Treasurer, refunding any surplus above costs and fines to the former owner. If the county has net removal costs, it holds a lien on the property, enforceable either by a Circuit Court action within eighteen months or by a Quorum Court hearing after ninety days' certified-mail notice (or four consecutive weeks of published notice for unknown owners), with the amount certified to the Tax Collector and added to the property's delinquent tax bill plus a ten percent collection penalty.

The Quorum Court may also hire an attorney to seek a judicial nuisance declaration in Circuit Court instead of proceeding by resolution. The provision was passed as Ordinance No. 2002-076 on December 17, 2002, and amended by Ordinance No. 2005-044 on August 16, 2005.