The Clerk-Treasurer’s office shall send a statement by regular United States mail of the total expense incurred in abating the nuisance to the property owner who has failed to abide by the notice to abate, and if the amount shown by the statement has not been paid within 30 days after mailing, the office of the Clerk-Treasurer, shall certify the costs to the County Auditor. The amount due shall then be collected with, and in the same manner, as general property taxes and disbursed into the General Fund of the town. The cost of abating the nuisance shall constitute a lien upon the property where the nuisance was abated, and such lien shall be collectable in any manner or proceeding authorized by law. The lien shall attach when the itemized expense account has been certified and filed with the Fiscal Officer and shall bear interest thereafter at the same rate as prescribed for judgments entered by courts of record in the state. Costs of collection, including reasonable attorney fees incurred and expenses or recording the lien may be recovered as a part of the town’s expenses in abating the nuisance.
(Prior Code, Title III, Ch. XIII, Art. I, § 7) (Ord. passed 7-10-1996; Ord. passed 9-6-2006)