HILDALE, Utah (AP) - A court-appointed fiduciary has demanded two property holders in the twin polygamist communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., pay property taxes or be evicted.

Bruce Wisan told town councils in both communities that he had planned to wait until a property survey was completed before pressing residents, but because of the tepid response he has received, he has decided to act now.

"I've come to the conclusion that waiting is not the best course of action," Wisan said. "I've started to proceed in a direction that will accelerate the decision-making in regard to property taxes."

He said he has delivered a notice to Lyle Jeffs, a younger brother of fugitive Warren Jeffs, the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The notice tells Lyle Jeffs to pay property taxes or face eviction, a process that could start in about 10 days.

The other notice went to a family that quickly moved into a home vacated in Colorado City.

The priority homes he's looking at for evictions include some were inequities have occurred, resulting in people being displaced; homes of leaders; and perhaps larger homes.

"We'd like to have people pay their property taxes and not have the confrontations that we seem to be having," he said. "But on the other hand the rule of law has to apply and we cannot have the situation where the largest percentage of the population are occupying the homes in which they are not paying the property taxes."

The FLDS church and individual property owners have made some tax payments, but as of December half a million dollars remained due to Mohave (Arizona) and Washington (Utah) counties. That shortfall is a growing concern for the towns and the local public school, Wisan said. Another $500,000 is due in Arizona at the end of the month.

Wisan said he has heard that many residents plan to just move elsewhere, but that makes little sense because they would face rent and costs that would quickly surpass what they owe in property taxes.

Wisan's attorney, Jeffrey Shields, raised concerns about the safety hazard caused by tall residential fences being built too close to streets. Some fences may need to be torn down, Shields told the council.

Zitting asked a few questions about the fence issue. None of the other three council members present made any comment.

Wisan also got the silent treatment Monday night, when he presented much of the same information to the Colorado City council.

Most residents of the two communities belong to the FLDS church, and most of the property is owned by the sect's trust arm, the United Effort Plan.

The Utah attorney general's office asked the courts last year to remove the controlling trustees of the UEP, including Warren Jeffs, on the ground that he and other church leaders allegedly were misusing trust property.

Jeffs is wanted on Utah and Arizona charges that he arranged plural marriages between underage girls and older men.