(A) Upon failure of any owner or his or her agent or occupant to comply with the notice by abating such violations, the city and/or its designated representative is authorized to enter upon the property to remedy the condition. The city shall have a lien against the property for the reasonable value of the labor and materials used in remedying such situations. This will include the cost of cutting, clearing and removal of the violation in addition to other reasonable actions necessary to abate same.
(B) The affidavit of the Mayor of the city, or the responsible agent designated by the city, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the amount of the lien and the proceedings pursuant to this subchapter, and upon the same being recorded in the office of the County Clerk, the document shall establish and constitute a lien upon and against the property wherein such labor and materials were utilized to abate such violation. Recording of the lien shall be noticed to the public at large of the existence of a lien, and the same shall bear interest at a rate of 12% per annum from date of lien and thereafter until paid.
(Prior Code, § 12.3)