(a) Upon judgment for the City in legal proceedings brought pursuant to this chapter, an accounting shall be made by such defendant or defendants of all moneys or valuable consideration received by them which have been declared to be a public nuisance under Sections 535.03(c), 535.04(c) or 535.05(b). Such moneys or their equivalent and any valuable consideration received shall be forfeited to the General Fund or to the City as property of the City if any valuable consideration received be not money.
(b) The cost of abatement shall include the following:
(1) Investigative costs;
(2) Court costs;
(3) Reasonable attorney’s fees arising out of the preparation for, and trial of the case, and appeals therefrom, and other costs allowed on appeal; and
(4) Printing costs of trial and appellate briefs, and all other papers filed in such proceeding.
(c) Such cost of abatement is hereby made a special assessment against the parcel of land upon which such nuisance is maintained. Upon its determination in a civil action such shall, by separate legal proceeding, be made a lien against such property and a personal obligation against any person, persons, firm, association, partnership, corporation or other entity and shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected, and shall be subject to the same penalties and the same procedure and sale in the case of delinquency as provided for ordinary municipal taxes. All laws, applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of municipal taxes, shall be applicable to such special assessment.
(Ord. 2004-08. Passed 2-9-04.)