§ 11587 Building Contempt Fine Lien

• •If a building owner breaks a court rule and gets fined, the fine sticks to their building.
• •The court can take money from the building to pay the fine if the owner doesn’t.
• •This only applies to the part of the building the owner actually owns.

A landlord ignores a court order to fix unsafe conditions in their apartment building and gets fined $5,000.

The court can force the sale of part of the building to pay the $5,000 fine if the landlord refuses to pay.