If the City of Los Angeles, at any time prior to the confirmation of any assessment and diagram provided for herein, enters into an agreement with the County of Los Angeles pursuant to Section 51800 of the Government Code for the collection and enforcement by the County of Assessments levied pursuant to this chapter, then as to those real properties which appear on the last Equalized Tax Roll of the County of Los Angeles and that have been assessed for improvements for periods designed to end on June 30th of any year, said assessments shall be so collected and enforced, and notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter it shall be sufficient for the notice of recording to state the fact and date of such recording by the Board of Public Works and that the several assessments so recorded shall be collected by and payable to the County Tax Collector along with the general taxes levied for City and County purposes and shall be subject to the same penalties and enforcement provisions relating to said general taxes; provided, however, that, if for any reason any of the several assessments may not be so collectible and enforceable along with general taxes against the properties, then the notice shall also state concerning those assessments the applicable requirements as to payment, delinquency and penalty as provided in Section 6.108.
Any assessment collectible by the County pursuant to such agreement which would be payable in installments if collected or enforced by the City shall also be payable to the County in like installments.
The City Engineer shall furnish to County officials each year, in accordance with the agreement, the necessary information regarding the amounts of assessments, or of installments if so payable, that are to be billed for and collected by the County during the tax-paying period.
All assessments levied under this chapter which are not collected or enforced pursuant to such contract with the County shall be subject to all other enforcement provisions of this chapter.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 75,000.
Amended by: Ord. No. 116,761; 3rd Para., Ord. No. 149,941*, Eff. 8-15-77.