15.56.200 Assessment of property owner – Lien.

   (A)   The amount of the cost of abating such nuisance upon the various lots or parcels of land, including incidental expenses, as confirmed by the Board, constitutes special assessments against the respective lots or parcels of land, as thus made and confirmed shall become the personal obligation of the respective owners of the lot or parcel of land. The assessment shall be due and payable 30 days from the date of confirmation thereof and thereafter shall bear interest at the rate of 6% per year until paid. The confirmed special assessments shall also constitute a lien on the property for the amount of such assessments, respectively, until paid.

   (B)   Immediately upon the confirmation of the assessment, the City Clerk shall cause to be filed in the office of the County Recorder of Riverside County, State of California, a notice of lien in substantially the following form:

"NOTICE OF LIEN

   Pursuant to the authority derived by the provisions of Title 15 of the Municipal Code of the City of Corona, County of Riverside, State of California, the Board of Zoning Adjustment did, on the                  day of               , 20         , cause a nuisance to be abated on the real property hereinafter described and did, on the                   day of           , 20       , by Resolution No.           , assess the cost of such abatement upon said real property hereinafter described. Of said cost there

remains unpaid to the City of Corona the sum of             Dollars ($) and therefore said City of Corona does hereby claim a lien upon said real property in the amount of said unpaid balance, namely, in the amount of              Dollars ($ ), together with interest calculated thereon at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the                 day of                 , 20       , until said amount has been paid in full and this lien discharged of record.

   The real property hereinbefore mentioned and upon which a lien is hereby claimed is all that certain parcel or parcels of real property situated in the City of Corona, County of Riverside, State of California, and more particularly described as follows, to wit:

   (Insert legal description)

Dated this               day of                    , 20         

                                 CITY OF CORONA, a Municipal Corporation

                                 By                                                               

                                    Mayor

                                 Attest                                                           

                                    City Clerk

(Acknowledgment)"

   (C)   Such lien shall, for all purposes, be upon a parity with the lien of state, county and city taxes.

(`78 Code, § 15.56.200.) (Ord. 1824 § 11, 1987.)