(A) Personal liability. The owner of a premises upon which unauthorized, abandoned or junk automobiles have been removed, shall be personally liable for the cost of removal to the City, including legal fees and administrative costs. As soon as the work has been completed and the cost determined, the City Administrator or other City official shall prepare a bill for the cost and mail it to the owner. The amount shall be immediately due and payable at the office of the City Clerk-Treasurer.
(B) Assessment. If the storage or maintenance of abandoned, unauthorized or junk motor vehicles occurs on private property, or outside the travel portion of public streets, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall, on or before September 1 following removal of the vehicles, list the total unpaid costs and charges, including attorney’s fees and administrative charges, to be assessed under M.S. § 429.101, as it may be amended from time to time, against each separate lot or parcel to which the charges are attributable. The City Council may then impose the charges against the property under that statute and other pertinent statutes for certification to the County Auditor and collection along with current taxes the following year, or in annual installments, not exceeding three, or as the City Council may determine in each case.
(Prior Code, § 900.26) (Ord. 2003-13, passed - -)