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The amount of assessment shall be collected upon the County of Los Angeles property tax bill, and the City Engineer is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the County of Los Angeles pursuant to Section 51800 of the Government Code of the State of California for the collection and enforcement by the County of Los Angeles of the assessments levied pursuant to this chapter. If the assessments are not paid prior to delinquency, then they shall bear interest and carry penalties to the same extent and on the same conditions as ad valorem taxes bear interest and carry penalties.
SECTION HISTORY
Chapter 8 added by Ord. No. 162,383, Eff. 7-23-87.
(a) The amount of assessment and any interest or penalties thereon, less any sums charged by the County of Los Angeles to administer and collect the assessments, shall be credited to a fund in the treasury of the City of Los Angeles to be known as the “Essential Public Utilities Assessment Fund.”
(b) The Fund shall be divided into separate accounts for each department for which assessments are made.
SECTION HISTORY
Chapter 8 added by Ord. No. 162,383, Eff. 7-23-87.
(a) When payments of assessments are received the Controller, upon the request of the City Engineer, may draw from the Essential Public Utilities Assessment Fund and place in the General Fund such reasonable amounts or percentage of the assessments which were included in the assessments as necessary to reimburse the City for its costs and expenses in levying assessments, holding hearings and otherwise administering the procedure established by this chapter. All other funds shall be paid by the Controller, at the request of the City Engineer, to the department which has provided and will provide the essential public utilities services.
(b) The department receiving payment from the Controller shall determine from the records maintained by the County of Los Angeles the real properties for which assessments were made. Such department shall first credit, as of the date of its receipt of payment from the Controller, the unpaid billings, including any interest or penalties thereon, for each real property for which payments were made. Thereafter, it shall deduct from any excess amounts received the billings for services as such billings become payable, until all amounts received from the Controller have been accounted for.
SECTION HISTORY
Chapter 8 added by Ord. No. 162,383, Eff. 7-23-87.
Utilization of the procedures set forth in this chapter by a department shall not preclude the department from billing the owner or applicants for services in a conventional manner. If payments are made pursuant to such billings, and at such time as the department is reasonably satisfied that it is no longer necessary that funds be held in order to assure that payments for the utility services shall be made, the department may refund any amounts not yet utilized to pay billings for utilities services to the person or persons entitled thereto.
SECTION HISTORY
Chapter 8 added by Ord. No. 162,383, Eff. 7-23-87.
The procedures set forth in this chapter, as amended, shall become effective July 1, 1995. Any overdue and unpaid billings which became “due” after July 1, 1993 and prior to the effective date of this chapter, as amended, may be subject to assessment liens pursuant to this chapter, provided any such assessment lien is assessed within one year after the effective date of this chapter, as amended.
SECTION HISTORY
Chapter 8 added by Ord. No. 162, 383, Eff. 7-23-87.
Amended by: Title and Sec., Ord. No. 170,164, Eff. 1-19-95.
The assessment provided for by this chapter shall have the same priority as the lien for real property taxes and shall be prior to and superior to all other encumbrances and liens upon real property except for liens of special assessments separately billed, and as to such special assessments it shall be on a parity therewith.
SECTION HISTORY
Chapter 8 added by Ord. No., 162,383, Eff. 7-23-87.
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