After receipt of the said diagram and assessment referred to in the last preceding section, the Board of Public Works shall record the same in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose in the Bureau of Engineering and append thereto its certificate of the date of such recording. Such recording shall constitute the Assessment Roll. Upon such recording, the assessments shall be deemed to be levied and from the date of such recording all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of the Assessment Roll.
Thereafter, at any time prior to the beginning of the period of the improvement specified in the Ordinance of Intention, the Bureau of Engineering shall give notice by publication, by one insertion in a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated within the City of Los Angeles, that said diagram and assessment have been recorded and that all sums so assessed therein are due and payable immediately and that payments of said sums be made to the Bureau of Engineering within thirty (30) days after the publication on said notice, which date shall be stated therein. Said notice shall also contain the statement that all assessments not paid before expiration of the said thirty days shall be delinquent, and thereupon ten per cent of the amount of each such assessment shall be added thereto.
Immediately upon publication of the recording, the several assessments contained in such Assessment Roll, shall become due and payable, and each of the assessments shall be a lien upon property against which it is made, paramount to an other liens except liens for State, County and municipal taxes, and shall only be discharged by the payment of the assessment or by redemption of the property after sale for delinquency. All such assessments remaining unpaid after thirty (30) days from the date of the publication of the Notice of Recording, as herein provided for, shall become delinquent and ten per cent shall be added to the amount thereof.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 89,450.
Amended by: 1st and 2nd Para., Ord. No. 149,941*, Eff. 8-15-77.