(A) Upon adoption of the annual local improvement and essential service assessment resolution for each fiscal year, local improvement and essential service assessments to be collected under the Uniform Assessment Collection Act shall constitute a lien against assessed property equal in rank and dignity with the liens of all state, county, district or municipal taxes and other non-ad valorem assessments. Except as otherwise provided by law, such lien shall be superior in dignity to all other liens, titles and claims, until paid. The lien shall be deemed perfected upon adoption by the City Commission of the annual local improvement and essential service assessment resolution and shall attach to the property included on the local improvement and essential service assessment roll as of the prior January 1, the lien date for ad valorem taxes.
(B) Upon adoption of the final local improvement and essential service assessment resolution, local improvement and essential service assessments to be collected under any alternative method of collection provided in § 38.41 hereof shall constitute a lien against assessed property equal in rank and dignity with the liens of all state, county, district or municipal taxes and other non-ad valorem assessments. Except as otherwise provided by law, such lien shall be superior in dignity to all other liens, titles and claims, until paid. The lien shall be deemed perfected on the date notice thereof is recorded in the official records of Seminole County, Florida.
(Ord. 1166, passed 6-2-05)