NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - With little progress made on prosecuting property maintenance code violators, the city of Natchez is looking at other options for enforcement.

Mayor Butch Brown tells The Natchez Democrat (http://bit.ly/TgQLGA ) the city's code enforcement officers are writing citations for violations such as abandoned cars and overgrown grass, but the citations are more or less just piling up and not being prosecuted in court.

The city recently moved the code enforcement officers to the police department so the officers could issue citations and the city could collect money from violators.

The violators, however, are not being prosecuted in municipal court and fines are not being collected as Brown said he had originally hoped.

Brown says he has asked Justice Court Judge Charlie Vess to consider taking up the citations in his court.

Information from: The Natchez Democrat, http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/

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