Mount Carmel Abandoned Property Issue

Vacant and abandoned properties are something that has been prevalent for decades. Whether it be in areas suffering national disasters, a job-loss shock, or a population shift, abandoned houses are a concern in many places. Mount Carmel has experienced an outflux of its population which has had a negative effect on the already vacant housing issue. This project investigates solutions to the vacant and abandoned property issue occurring in Mount Carmel through case studies of other towns that have also experienced the challenges of abandoned properties. Additionally, using an Arc Collector App that students created of Mount Carmel last year, this project team added additional properties and pictures to create a visual that can be used to manage vacant and abandoned housing. With the changes and additions the team made to the map app, users will be able to understand where the abandoned properties are currently located, what condition the properties are in, and why they are located where they are with a map they can visualize effectively. This report is the result of a student group project for Geography 326 Thinking Space taught by Prof. Vanessa Massaro. The report builds on a group project from Spring 2017, Inventorying Blighted Properties in Mount Carmel, PA: Presenting ArcCollector, An Online Spatial Management System, found here. Included in this entry are the final report and a powerpoint presentation

The Tort Liability of Users of Abandoned Property

A question which from the standpoint of decisions is seemingly unique was raised in the case of Locke v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. et al, 78 Wash. Dec. 40, 33 Pac. (2d) 1077 (1934), concerning the liability of users of abandoned property The city of Seattle erected a pole in 1905 on a parking strip bordering one of its streets, for the purpose of carrying the wires of the city\u27s light plant. In 1926 the city removed all of its wires from the pole, and shortly thereafter the defendant telephone company placed a single drop wire on the pole which ran from their main line to the house of a subscriber in front of which the pole stood. This single wire remained on the pole until 1932 when the pole, because of its old and decayed condition, fell across the street and was struck by the plaintiff\u27s auto without any fault on his part. The telephone company was a mere trespasser on the pole, and its drop wire was not a cause of the accident. In an action brought by the plaintiff for personal injuries against the city of Seattle and the telephone company a jury verdict was given in favor of the plaintiff against both defendants, judgment was entered against the city, and a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict was granted in favor of the telephone company Both the plaintiff and the city appeal from the granting of this motion in favor of the telephone company It was held that the defendant telephone company did not have such control over the pole as to create the affirmative duty to inspect and repair running to the public, and that in fact they had no legal right to repair or to remove the pole, and hence were not liable. There is a vigorous dissent by Chief Justice Beals in whose opinion the control exercised by the telephone company was sufficient to create such a dut

Treasure Salvors, Inc. v. Abandoned Sailing Vessel Believed To Be the Nuestra Sehora De Atocha, 408 F. Supp. 907 (S.D. Fla. 1976)

Admiralty- SALVAGE- THE UNITED STATES HAS NOT ASSERTED SOVEREIGN PREROGATIVE OVER ABANDONED PROPERTY ON OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF

Recent Development: Immanuel v. Comptroller of Maryland: The Maryland Public Information Act\u27s Financial Information Exemption and the Uniform Disposition of Abandoned Property Act\u27s Publication Provision Do Not Allow For Disclosure of Information Beyond What is Explicitly Permitted

The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that information beyond the scope required under the Uniform Disposition of the Abandoned Property Act\u27s publication provision cannot be disclosed in response to a request for information made under the Maryland Public Information Act. Immanuel v. Comptroller of Maryland, 449 Md. 76, 97-98, 141 A.3d 181, 194 (2016). The court also held that the information required to bze published under the Abandoned Property Act may not be ordered by value, because such ordering would reveal personal financial information. Id. at 97, 141 A.3d at 194. Lastly, the court held that the intermediate appellate court properly required petitioner to modify his request to be consistent with the Maryland Public Information Act\u27s financial information exemption. Id. On November 3, 2011, Henry Immanuel ( Immanuel ) submitted a request for information held by the Comptroller of Maryland ( Comptroller ). The request sought the names and addresses of individuals who held the 5,000 largest unclaimed abandoned property accounts, ordered by value. The Comptroller denied Immanuel\u27s request, and determined that the information fell under the Maryland Public Information Act\u27s ( MPIA ) financial information exemption

Using Imagery to Identify Abandoned Property in Public Spaces

Generally, the present disclosure is directed to identifying private property that has been illegally dumped or stored for a prolonged period without use. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage one or more machine-learned models to predict whether an item has been abandoned in a public right-of-way based on imagery of the item and record of public right-of-way