A property owner can be ordered to pay municipal liens for utility bills neglected by his former tenants, even if he had no prior notice of the unpaid debts, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

An en banc panel of the court decided June 8 to affirm four orders from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, which placed municipal liens on the property of Raymond Perfetti for his former tenants’ unpaid gas bills.

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