The Municipality shall keep an itemized account of those expenses it incurs to abate nuisances on behalf of a private property owner or tenant. The total cost incurred for administration, labor, personnel, materials, and equipment shall either be collected through civil litigation directed against the property owner or shall be certified by the Director of Finance to the County Auditor, and by the Auditor placed upon the tax duplicate to be a lien upon the duplicate and to be collected as other taxes and returned to the Municipality, with the effect that the total cost of the work constitutes a lien on the property which has priority ahead of any and all mortgages on the premises. The collection proceedings or certification to the Auditor shall only be initiated by the Municipality after property owners, or others with an interest in the property, have been offered at least thirty days to remit full payment for charges incurred.
(Ord. 1990-04. Passed 6-19-90.)