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The Treasurer shall not be required to call upon the persons named in the city tax roll, nor to make personal demand for the payment of taxes, but he shall give notice to the tax payers of the city, by publication in a newspaper printed and published in the city at least once, which publication of notice shall be made at least ten (10) days prior to the first day of July in each year, of the time when said taxes will be due for collection, and shall give such notice of the time when said taxes will be due for collection by first class mail addressed to the owners of the property upon which taxes are assessed according to the names of such owners and their addresses as indicated on the tax roll, which notice shall be deemed sufficient for the payment of all taxes on said tax roll. Failure on the part of the Treasurer to give said notice shall not invalidate the taxes on said tax roll nor release the person or property assessed from any penalty or interest provided in this chapter in case of nonpayment of the same.
City taxes shall be due and payable on the 15th day of September each year. To all taxes paid after September 15th, there shall be added a four (4) percent penalty, and to all taxes paid after said date, there shall also be added interest at the rate of one-half (1/2) of one (1) percent for each month or fraction of a month intervening between said date and the date of payment, or the first day of March of the next succeeding calendar year, whichever date shall occur first. The added penalties and interest herein provided shall belong to the City, and shall constitute a charge and shall be a lien against the property to which the taxes themselves apply, collectible in the same manner as the taxes to which they are added.
(Amended 5-8-07)
If the Treasurer has been unable to collect any of the city taxes on said roll on real property before the first day of March following the date when said roll was received by him, it shall be his duty to return all such unpaid taxes on real property to the county treasurer in the same manner and with like effect as returns by township treasurers of township, school, and county taxes. Such returns shall be made upon a delinquent tax roll to be prepared by the Treasurer and shall include all the additional charges and fees hereinbefore provided, which charges shall, in such return, be added to the amount assessed in said tax roll against each description. The taxes thus returned shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes returned to the county treasurer are collected under the provisions of the general laws of the state and shall be and remain a lien upon the lands against which they are assessed, until paid.
The city shall have power, insofar as the exercise thereof shall not conflict with or contravene the provisions of any general law of the State, to acquire by purchase any premises within the city at any tax or other public sale, or by direct purchase from the State of Michigan or the fee owner, when such purchase is necessary to protect the lien of the city for taxes or special assessments, or both, on said premises and may hold, lease, or sell the same solely for the purpose of securing therefrom the amount of such taxes or special assessments, or both, together with any incidental expenses incurred in connection with the exercise of this power. Any such procedure exercised by the city in the protection of its tax lien shall be deemed to be for a public purpose.
For the purpose of assessing and levying taxes in the city for all purposes other than city taxes, the city shall be considered the same as a township and except as otherwise provided in this charter, all provisions of state law relative to the collection of such taxes, the accounting therefore to the appropriate taxing units, and the returning of delinquent taxes to the county treasurer for collection, shall apply, and the city treasurer shall have all of the powers and duties in connection therewith as township treasurers have.