(A) If no appeal of the decision of the hearing officer is timely filed as provided in this chapter, or if the final decision of the Board of Appeals has been mailed to the owner of the affected property, the City Manager or his designated representative shall claim a lien on the property in the amount of the late charge and the amount required to recover the costs incurred by the city in abating signs constituting a public nuisance as provided in this chapter, and shall record a notice of the lien (in the manner provided below) in the office of the County Recorder.
(B) Such notice of lien for recordation shall be in a form substantially as follows:
“NOTICE OF LIEN
(Claim of City of Alhambra)
Pursuant to §§ 23.21.170 et seq. of the Alhambra Municipal Code, the City Manager of the City of Alhambra (or his designated agent) did on or about the day of , 20___, find and determine that the late charge of Two Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars ($275.00) imposed for noncompliance with the sign standards contained in Chapter 23.21 of said Code plus the actual cost incurred by the City to abate the public nuisance, has not been paid and that said City of Alhambra does hereby claim a lien on such late charge in the amount of Two Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars ($275.00) plus the actual cost incurred by the City to abate the public nuisance; and the same shall be a lien upon said real property until it has been paid in full and discharged of record.
The real property on which rests the nonconforming sign and upon which a lien is claimed is that certain property located in the City of Alhambra and more particularly described as:
DATED: CITY OF ALHAMBRA
by
(Title)”
(C) The notice of lien shall be sent to the affected property owner and to any other person requesting the same, and shall also be sent to the tax division of the County Auditor-Controller's Office. It shall be the duty of the Auditor-Controller to add the
amount of the respective lien to the next regular tax bill or bills levied against the respective property, and thereafter the lien amount shall be collected at the same time and the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected, and shall be subject to the same penalties and the same procedure under fore-closure and sale in case of delinquencies provided for ordinary municipal taxes. Alternatively, after recordation, such lien may be foreclosed by judicial or other sale in the manner and means provided by law.
(Ord. 4823, passed 1-22-24)