{"id":27643,"date":"2021-10-29T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T06:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=27643"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T06:32:05","slug":"property-law-update-illegal-use-of-property-bite-the-bullet-and-pay-the-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-illegal-use-of-property-bite-the-bullet-and-pay-the-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | Illegal use of property: Bite the bullet and pay the penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Zibi and Another (234\/2020) [2021] ZASCA 97; [2021] 3 All SA 667 (SCA) (9 July 2021)<\/p>\n<p>The property owners in this matter rented out rooms in their home to students and young professionals, rendering the property a \u201ccommune\u201d for purposes of the relevant municipal zoning. They did not bother to comply with the zoning provisions and apply for permission or stop the letting business, but after years of receiving contravention notices from the municipality, decided to challenge the manner in which the municipality levied penalty rates \u2013 all the way to the Supreme Court of Appeal. The latter held that a municipality was entitled to levy a penalty rate for illegal or unauthorised use, without first changing the category of the property on its valuation roll from \u2018residential\u2019 to \u2018illegal or unauthorised\u2019 use. Not only was the charging of the penalty aligned with the municipality\u2019s policy; to hold differently would cause an unreasonable administrative burden on municipalities were it required that a supplementary valuation roll had to be published in respect of every unlawful use of a property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rounded_pill\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/stbb_plu26-2021_s2.pdf\">Summary of the Judgment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bottom_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saflii.org\/za\/cases\/ZASCA\/2021\/97.html\">The Judgment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Zibi and Another (234\/2020) [2021] ZASCA 97; [2021] 3 All SA 667 (SCA) (9 July 2021) The property owners in this matter rented out rooms in their home to students and young professionals, rendering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-property-law-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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