If the owner or occupant of the premises, or the owner of such vehicle fails, or the lienholder neglects or refuses to either file notice of protest or to comply with the terms of any notice issued under the provisions of § 91.03, within ten days after service of such notice by personal service, mailing or attachment to such vehicle, appropriate city officials shall abate such public nuisance by removing the junked vehicle from its location and impounding the same. All expenses incurred in the abatement of such nuisance, and costs of preserving such vehicle prior to the final disposition, shall be charged against the owner, or owners, of the junked vehicle payable in the county and the city shall have a privileged lien on such junked vehicle, together with 10% interest on the delinquent amount from the date of impounding such vehicle.
(Ord. 01-87, passed 3-2-1987; Ord. 09032, passed 9-8-2003) Penalty, see § 91.99