Any expense which may be incurred by the city in repairing, tearing down or removing any buildings or structure under the authority of § 150.67, shall be a debt due from the owner of the building or structure to the city, and may be recovered by charging the costs against the land on which the building existed as a municipal lien, or cause the costs to be added to the tax duplicate as an assessment. All unpaid charges which upon January 1 of each year have remained unpaid shall be reported by the City Manager to the City Commission at the first meeting in the month of January. The City Commission shall thereupon order the publication in a newspaper, published in the city, or notice to all owners of property within the city that all unpaid charges as of January 1 which have not been paid by January 31 will be transferred to the tax roll and assessed upon the city's tax roll against the property to which the unpaid rates of charges accrued to be collected in the same manner as the lien created by the city taxes on the tax roll.
(Ord. 3.2, passed 4-5-66)