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The Board may enter into such annual contracts as may be required for performance of the work or may cause any part or parts thereof to be performed or furnished by the City and may employ the necessary labor and provide, by purchase order when necessary, the required materials and equipment and shall cause the said work to be performed or furnished. It may issue interdepartmental purchase orders for the furnishing of maintenance or incidental services or supplies, where necessary or in the public interest by reason of circumstances, such purchase orders to be at established rates or upon terms that may be agreed upon between the said Board and the board or other proper officers of the department from which the purchase may be made.
The costs and expenses of all work to be done or furnished by the City shall be paid for from the special fund for the work provided for in Section 6.161 hereof, or out of any fund which may be provided or advanced by the Council for expenditure for such purposes. The payments so advanced may be reimbursed from the special fund when moneys are available therein.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 129,015.
Annually on or before January 31st, the Board shall prepare an estimate of the expenditures required for the maintenance and improvement of Open Areas under its charge for the ensuing year and if sufficient funds are not available in the special fund for the purpose, shall file an Assessment Report with the City Council prior to February 28th. The estimate may also include any advance made pursuant to Section 6.160 or any previous year or years’ deficiency pursuant to Section 6.161 and shall include the incidental expenses of the assessment proceedings. The Assessment Report shall include a proposed assessment of all of the estimated costs and expenses of the improvement proposed to be assessed upon the several lots or parcels of land in proportion to the respective assessed valuations of said lots or parcels of land and the improvements thereon as they are shown on the last Equalized Tax Roll of the County of Los Angeles. Said assessment shall show the parcel number for each such lot or parcel of land as the respective numbers appear on the Assessment Diagram on file in the Bureau of Engineering and shall make reference thereto.
The report may contain recommended corrections or changes in the Assessment Diagram, including changes in the parcel numbers, to reflect changes in ownership or the division of lots or parcels of land, as deemed appropriate by the Bureau of Engineering. The Council may order the original diagram corrected or changed as to the division or dimensions of lots or parcels of land within the District in such manner as shall seem just and as may in its judgment be necessary in order that the costs of the work or improvement ordered may be properly assessed against the properties benefited.
Upon presentation of the Assessment Report, the Council shall set a date for the hearing of protests thereto and shall instruct that notices of said hearing be published in the manner provided for in Section 6.143 hereof. At said hearing if no protests are received or if protests are denied by a vote of four-fifths of the Council, the Council shall declare its confirmation of the assessment and shall thereafter, by ordinance, order the improvement as provided in the assessment report.
Immediately thereafter, the City Clerk shall record a Notice of Assessment, as provided for in Section 3114 of the Streets and Highways Code, whereupon said assessment shall attach as a lien upon the property assessed, as provided in Section 3115 of said Code. The lien is superior to all special assessment liens created against the same property after the date of recordation.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 129,015.
Amended by: 1st and 2nd paras. Ord. No. 149,941*, Eff. 8-15-77.
The annual special assessment levied for maintenance and improvement of Open Areas in any year shall not exceed twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed value of taxable land and improvements within the District. The special assessment shall be levied and collected at the same time, in the same manner, by the same officers, and with the same interest and penalties as general taxes levied by the Council.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 129,015.
The City of Los Angeles, at any time prior to the levy of any assessment provided for herein, shall enter 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 article. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article it shall be sufficient for the ordinance ordering each annual assessment to state the fact that the several assessments shall be connected 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.
The City Engineer shall furnish to County officials each year, in accordance with the agreement, the necessary information regarding the amounts of assessments that are to be billed for and collected by the County during the tax-paying period.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 129,015.
Amended by: 2nd Para. Ord. No. 149,941*, Eff. 8-15-77.
The proceeds of such annual special assessments shall be paid to the City Treasurer who shall place the same in a special fund, as designated by the Controller of the City of Los Angeles, to the credit of the District and payment shall be made out of such special fund only for the purposes provided for in this article for such District. To expedite the making of any such maintenance or improvement, the Council may at any time transfer into said special fund, out of any money in the General Fund, such sums as it may deem necessary, and the sums so transferred shall be deemed as a loan to such special fund, and shall be repaid out of the proceeds of the assessments provided for in this article.
If a District is organized in any year too late for the levy of a special assessment in that year or in the next ensuing year, the Council is hereby authorized to transfer funds out of the General Fund of the City to the special fund of the District to be used for the payment of the expenses of such District until such time as special assessments receipts are available therefor. The Council shall include in the levy of the special assessment for the District for the first fiscal year in which the assessment may be levied or in ensuing years, a sum sufficient to repay the City the amount so transferred to the District for the portion or portions of the preceding fiscal year or years for which no levy of assessment was made for that purpose. The amount so transferred shall be repaid into the General Fund of the City from the District fund out of the first available receipts from the assessment levied or as determined by the Council.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 129,015.
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