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Upon the expiration of said period of thirty days all assessments then unpaid shall become delinquent and the Board of Public Works shall mark each such assessment “delinquent” on said Assessment Roll and add and collect ten per cent to the amount thereof.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
The Board of Public Works shall, within thirty days from the date of such delinquency begin the publication of a list of the Delinquent Assessments, which list must contain a description of each lot or parcel of land delinquent and opposite each description the name of the owner, as it appears on the Assessment Roll and the amount of the assessment and penalty due, together with the advertising cost. It shall append to and publish with such delinquent list a notice that unless each assessment delinquent, together with the penalty and costs thereof, is paid, the property upon which such assessment is a lien will be sold at public auction at a time and place fixed by the Board of Public Works and specified in the notice, and that, upon such sale, the purchaser will be given a certificate of sale to the property, and that if no redemption of the same is made within one year after the date of such sale, a deed to the property will be issued upon the application of such purchaser. Such notice must be published for five days in a daily newspaper published and circulated in the City. The time of sale must not be less than five days nor more than ten days after the last publication of such notice. At any time after such delinquency and prior to the sale of any lot or parcel of land assessed and delinquent, any interested person may pay the assessment of such lot or parcel of land, together with penalty and costs due thereon, including the costs of advertising, if such payment is made after the first publication of the notice of Delinquent Assessment.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
Amended by: Ord. No. 149,299, Eff. 2-28-77.
At the time and place fixed for the sale, the Board of Public Works must commence the sale of the property advertised, commencing at the head of the list and continuing in numerical order of lots or parcels of land until all are sold, provided that it may postpone or continue the sale from day to day until all the property is sold. Each lot or parcel of land separately assessed must be offered for sale separately and the person who will take the least quantity of such lot or parcel of land and then and there pay the amount of the assessment, penalty and costs due, including $50.00 the Board of Public Works for a certificate of sale, shall become the purchaser. At said sale the City may bid in and become the purchaser of any lot or parcel of land offered for sale. In the event that there is no purchaser for any lot or parcel of land so offered for sale the same shall be struck off the City as purchaser and the amount required for such purchase shall be paid from the General Expense Fund of the City. No charge shall be made for a certificate of sale when the City is the purchaser. The fees and costs herein shall be adjusted, if required, in order to cover the City’s administrative costs and adopted in the same manner as provided in Section 12.37 I.1. of the Los Angeles Municipal Code for establishing fees.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
Amended by: No. 149,299, Eff. 2-28-77; Fee change and sentence added, Ord. No. 168,733, Eff. 5-31-93.
After making the sale, the Board of Public Works must execute in duplicate, a certificate of sale, setting forth the description of the property sold, the name of the owner thereof as given upon the Assessment Roll, that said property was sold for a Delinquent Assessment (specifying the improvement for which the same was made), the amount for which the property was sold, the date of sale, the name of the purchaser, and the time when the purchaser will be entitled to a deed. The Board of Public Works must file one copy of such certificate in its office and deliver the other to the purchaser or if the City is the purchaser, to the City Engineer who shall file the same in the City Engineer’s office. Upon the filing of a copy of such certificate in the office of the Board of Public Works the lien of the assessment shall vest in the purchaser and shall only be divested by the redemption of the property as in this ordinance provided. The Board of Public Works shall also enter on the Assessment Roll opposite the description of each lot or parcel of land offered for sale a description of the part thereof sold, the amount for which the same was sold, the date of sale, and the name of the purchaser.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
Amended by: Ord. No. 181,595, Eff. 4-10-11.
At any time before the expiration of one year after the date of sale, or at any time thereafter up to the time of the making of application for a deed by the purchaser, or the purchaser’s assignee, any lot or parcel of land sold for a Delinquent Assessment may be redeemed by any party in interest by the payment to the Board of Public Works of the amount for which the property was sold and in addition thereto a penalty of 25% of said amount. When redemption is made, the Board of Public Works shall note that fact and the date thereof on the duplicate certificate of sale on file in its office and deposit the amount paid with the City Treasurer, who shall credit the purchaser named in the certificate of sale with the said amount and pay the same to such purchaser, or the purchaser’s assignee, upon the surrender of the certificate of sale and upon satisfactory proof of assignment thereof, if any. When the City is purchaser, the Board of Public Works shall notify the City Engineer of the redemption and such City Engineer shall thereupon cancel the certificate of sale therefor on file in the City Engineer’s office.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
Amended by: Ord. No. 181,595, Eff. 4-10-11.
At any time after the expiration of one year from the date of sale, provided no redemption has been made the Board of Public Works must execute to the purchaser, or to the purchaser’s assignee, as the case may be, on the purchaser’s application, a deed to the property sold, in which shall be recited substantially the matters contained in the certificate, also any assignment thereof and the fact that no person has redeemed the property. The Board of Public Works shall receive from the applicant for a deed $16.00 for making such deed unless the City is the purchaser in which case no charge shall be made therefor. In addition, the applicant shall pay all costs of advertising incurred pursuant to Section 6.77 of this Code. Such deed shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of all matters recited therein and of the regularity of all proceedings prior to the execution thereof and of title in the grantee. The fees and costs herein shall be adjusted, if required, in order to cover the City’s administrative costs and adopted in the same manner as provided in Section 12.37 I.1. of the Los Angeles Municipal Code for establishing fees.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
Amended by: Ord. No. 149,299, Eff. 2-17-77; Fee change and sentence added, Ord. No. 168,733, Eff. 5-31-93.
The funds collected by the Board of Public Works under the proceedings herein provided for, either upon voluntary payments or as the result of the sale of property after delinquency, shall be paid by said Board of Public Works, as fast as collected to the City Treasurer, who shall place the same in a special fund designated by the number or name of the proceeding, and payments shall be made out of said special fund only as herein provided. In order to expedite the making of any improvement in this article provided for, the Council may at any time transfer into such special fund out of any money in the general fund of said City such sums as it may deem necessary and the sums so transferred shall be deemed a loan to said special fund and shall be repaid out of the proceeds of the assessments provided for in this article.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,080.
Upon the publication of the Final Ordinance ordering the work or improvement to be done the Board of Public Works shall execute and perform the work or improvement contemplated in the Ordinance of Intention and more particularly described in the plans, profiles, and specifications on file in the office of the City Engineer and referred to therein, and shall employ the necessary labor and provide the necessary materials and supplies therefor. The costs and expense of such work shall be paid out of said special fund and in case the amount collected in said special fund shall be sufficient to carry out the proposed work or improvement the Council shall provide for the payment of each deficiency by an appropriation out of the general expense fund of the City. The City Treasurer shall pay to the Board of Public Works for the payment by it of the cost and expense of the work or improvement the moneys out of said special fund upon the written demand therefor by the Board of Public Works setting forth a statement of said costs and expenses.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
Upon the recording in the office of the Board of Public Works of the report and assessment and diagram, as provided in Section 6.73, each assessment therein named shall from the date of such recording become a lien upon the lot or parcel of land against which it is levied, paramount to all other liens except liens for state, county and municipal taxes, and such lien shall continue and be in force until such assessment is paid, or until the property is redeemed after sale for delinquency, or until the property, is sold and a deed is made therefor to the purchaser as hereinbefore provided. From the date of such recording all persons shall be deemed to have notice of such lien upon the lot or parcel of land so assessed.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 41,060.
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