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The City Clerk shall cause to be published once in a newspaper published and circulated in the City of Los Angeles notice of said proposed hearing. Said notice shall be published at least ten days prior to the hearing and shall refer to the report of the Board of Public Works filed with the City Clerk relative to the maintenance work proposed for the ensuing year, and shall give notice of time and place when protests against the proposed assessments will be heard and that any owner of real property in the district who has made written protest in the manner required elsewhere in this ordinance may appear at the hearing to state the owner’s objections to the proposed assessment on the owner’s property.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 143,220, Eff. 5-25-72.
At the time set for hearing protests or at any time to which said hearing may be continued, the Council shall proceed to hear and pass upon all protests so made and its decision shall be final and conclusive. At such hearing the Council may confirm, amend, alter, modify or correct the assessment or diagram in such manner as to it shall seem just.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. 143,220, Eff. 5-25-72.
The Board of Public Works shall cause a Notice of Recording of the assessment for each year to be published by one insertion in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Los Angeles. Said notice shall state the fact of the recording of the assessment and diagram; the dates when the sums assessed become payable and when they shall become delinquent; that payments of the assessments be made to the Bureau of Engineering unless the County of Los Angeles shall collect the assessments pursuant to agreement with the City; and that a penalty of ten per cent shall be added for delinquent for each assessment not so paid.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 143,220, Eff. 5-25-72.
Amended by: Ord. No. 149,941*, Eff. 8-15-77.
The validity of any assessment levied under the provision this ordinance shall not be contested in any action unless the same is commenced within thirty days after the recording of the Notice of Assessment, and any appeal from a final judgment in each action must be perfected within thirty days after the entry of such judgment.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 143,220, Eff. 5-25-72.
If the City of Los Angeles 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 ordinance as an alternative to the collection and enforcement of assessments as provided by Section 6.317 et seq. then as to those real properties which appear on the last equalized tax roll of the County and that have been assessed for maintenance for periods designed to end on June 30 of any year said assessments shall be so collected and enforced. The Notice of Recording of the assessment and diagram published by the, Board of Public Works shall state the fact of such recording and that the several assessments so recorded shall be collected by and be payable to the County Tax Collector along with the general taxes levied for city and county purpose and shall be subject to the same penalties and enforcement provisions relating to 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, then the notice shall state the requirements as to payment, delinquency and penalty as provided in this procedural ordinance.
The Board of Public Works shall furnish to the County Tax Collector 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 for the tax-paying period.
All assessments levied for the maintenance of sidewalks and trees under this procedural ordinance which are not collected or enforced pursuant to such contract with the county shall be subject to the collection and enforcement provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 143,220, Eff. 5-25-72.
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