The expenses of the abatement shall be determined and billed to the property owner by regular mail. In the event the owner of the real property fails to reimburse the City for the actual cost of cutting and disposing under Section 917.04, the City Director of Finance shall certify, once a year, such costs, along with a penalty of five percent (5%) to the Ashtabula County Auditor with a request that said amount should be assessed against the subject real property and entered upon the real property’s tax duplicate for collection by the County Auditor. The amount so entered shall be a lien upon the subject real property and/or any premises located thereon from the date the same was entered; shall be collected as other real property taxes; and shall, upon collection by Ashtabula County, be returned to Ashtabula City for deposit into the City’s General Fund.
(Ord. 2014-54. Passed 4-21-14.)