Palmerton is the latest area municipality to join the fight against blight.

Borough council on a 6-0 vote Thursday adopted a resolution to support the implementation by the Carbon County Commissioners to enact Act 152 of 2016.

Councilman Richard Nothstein was absent.

The act allows for a $15 fee to be collected on each deed recorded in the county. All of the proceeds would be put into a fund to fight blight.

While commissioners have not approved the matter, borough Manager Donna McGarry said that more than $90,000 could have been generated last year with all of the deeds recorded.

Known as the Recorder of Deeds Fee Law, it allows the governing body of any county to adopt a resolution or an ordinance that authorizes the recorder of deeds to charge and collect an additional fee not to exceed $15 for each deed and mortgage recorded.

Last week, Lehighton Borough Council on a 6-1 vote adopted the same resolution.

Jim Thorpe plans to host a blight workshop in April at Memorial Hall sponsored by state Sen. Dave Argall, R-29.