(a) Every person owning, operating, leasing, occupying, or renting a building within a District shall construct and provide that portion of the service connection on his or her property between the facilities referred to in § 67.0211 and the termination facility on or within said building being served. If the above is not accomplished by any person within the time provided for in the resolution enacted pursuant to § 67.0205 hereof, the Director of the Special Districts Department shall give notice in writing to the person in possession of such premises, and a notice in writing to the owner on the last equalized assessment roll, to provide the required underground facilities within ten days after receipt of such notice.
(b) The notice to provide the required underground facilities may be given either by personal service or by mail. In case of service by mail on either of such persons, the notice must be addressed to the person in possession of such premises and also to the owner thereof. If notice is given by mail, such notice shall be deemed to have been received by the person to whom it has been sent within 48 hours after the mailing thereof. If notice is given by mail to either the owner or occupant of such premises, the Director of the Special Districts Department shall, within 48 hours after the mailing thereof, cause a copy to be posted in a conspicuous place on said premises.
(c) The notice given by the Director of the Special Districts Department to provide the required underground facilities shall specify what work is required to be done, and shall state that if said work is not completed within 30 days after receipt of notice, the Director will authorize such required underground facilities to be provided in which case the cost and expense thereof will be assessed against the property benefitted and become a lien upon such property.
(d) If upon the expiration of the 30-day period the said required underground facilities have not been provided, the Director shall proceed to have the work completed provided, however, if the premises are unoccupied and no electric or communications services are being furnished, the Director may in lieu of providing the required underground facilities, authorize the disconnection and removal of any and all overhead service wires and associated facilities supplying utility service. Upon completion, the Director shall file a written report with the Board of Supervisors setting forth the fact that the required underground facilities have been provided and the cost thereof, together with a legal description of the property against which such cost is to be assessed. The Board of Supervisors shall thereupon fix a time and place for hearing protests against the assessment of the cost of such work upon such premises, which said time shall not be less than ten days thereafter.
(e) The Director shall, upon the time for hearing of protest, give a notice in writing to the owner in the manner hereinabove provided for of the time and place that the Board of Supervisors will pass upon such report and will hear protests against the assessment. The notice shall also set forth the amount of the proposed assessment.
(f) Upon the date and hour set for the hearing of protests, the Board of Supervisors shall hear and consider the report and all protests, if there be any, and then proceed to affirm, modify or reject the assessment.
(g) If any assessment is not paid within five days after its confirmation by the Board of Supervisors, the amount of the assessment shall become a lien upon the property against which the assessment is made and the Director is directed to turn over to the Auditor-Controller a list of properties on which the assessment has not been paid, and the Auditor-Controller shall add the amount of assessment to the next regular bill for taxes levied against the premises upon which assessment was not paid. The assessment shall be due and payable at the same time as property taxes are due and payable. If not paid when due and payable, the assessment shall bear interest at the currant rate charged by the County Treasurer’s Office for delinquent property tax levies.
(Am. Ord. 1507, passed - -1969; Am. Ord. 1647, passed - -1969; Am. Ord. 2346, passed - -1979)