When said hearing has been concluded, the City Council shall by ordinance, which shall take effect from its passage, without publication or other prerequisites, assess against the several owners of property, and their property abutting on the highway or section thereof, ordered to be improved, such part of the cost of improvement as said council may have adjudged against them. Said ordinance shall fix a lien upon said property and declare the respective owners thereof to be personally liable for the amounts assessed against them, and shall state the time and terms of payment of such amounts. The said ordinance shall prescribe the rate of interest upon deferred payments, not exceeding the maximum set by law, and shall provide that failure to pay any installment when due shall mature all of said deferred payments. But any owner shall have the right to discharge any installment before maturity by the payment of same with accrued interest to date of payment. The lien and charge of personal liability above referred to shall secure and include all costs of collection, including a reasonable attorney’s fee, when incurred. Upon payment in full of any assessment against any such property, the city shall, acting by its mayor, execute a release which shall discharge the lien thereof.
More than one parcel or lot of land, the property of one owner, or owned jointly by two (2) or more owners, may be assessed together without invalidating said assessment or the lien thereof, or any claim of personal liability. The cost of such improvement assessed against any property, or its owner, together with interest as set by the City Council and costs of collection, including reasonable attorney’s fees, when incurred, shall constitute a personal claim against such property owner and be secured by lien on such property superior to all other liens, claims or titles, except lawful taxes, and such liability and lien may be enforced in any court having jurisdiction, or by sale of such property by the officer, and in any manner, as far as applicable, sales are authorized to be made for nonpayment of city taxes, but it shall not be necessary to sell at the same time as for delinquent taxes. The recital in any deed made in pursuance to such sales that all legal prerequisites to the validity thereof have been complied with, shall be prima facie evidence thereof, and without further proof shall be presumed to be true.
The City Council may by resolution make such rules and regulations as may be deemed proper to enforce collection of such assessments. Any error or omission in any proceeding herein provided for shall be corrected by the council, and shall not invalidate the said proceedings. The passage of such ordinance making said assessment shall be notice to all persons of the lien created thereby.