The government intends to hit the pockets of landowners who fail to keep their properties clean by allowing them to be overgrown with bush or have derelict structures.Offending landowners with grass or bush on their properties that is more than two feet tall and deemed a nuisance by health authorities, will face an administrative penalty of $300 and $10 each day it remains uncleared. They will have to foot the cost of clean-up if the state is forced to undertake the process. All this will be added to the landowner’s tax bill.Importantly, the government, which owns vast amounts of land, will also be subjected to the legislation, according to Attorney General Dale Marshall.Marshall made the disclosure on Tuesday in the House of Assembly as he moved the second reading of the Health Services (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to expand and update the 1969 legislation.