(A) The city shall forward to the owner, by personal service or by certified mail, a notice stating:
(1) The total cost of abatement, including the administrative costs;
(2) The costs as indicated will be assessed to and become a lien against the property unless paid within 30 days from the date of the notice; and
(3) If the owner objects to the costs of the abatement as indicated, a written notice of objection may be filed with the city not more than ten days from the date of the notice.
(B) No sooner than 30 days after the date of the notice of costs, the Council, in the regular course of business, shall hear and make a decision on the objections to the costs assessed.
(C) If the costs of the abatement are not paid within 30 days from the date of the notice of costs and if no objection was filed within ten days from the Council determination, an assessment of the costs, as stated or as decided by the Council, shall be made by resolution, and thereafter recorded with the County Clerk and Recorder and/or assessed with other property assessments at which time it shall constitute a lien on the property from which the nuisance was removed or abated.
(D) The lien shall bear interest at a rate set by the Council at the time of assessment.
(2015 Code, § 3-4-10) (Ord. 472, passed 11-16-2009)