(A) On March 1 of each calendar year, the City Manager, or designee, will prepare a complete list of delinquent charges applicable to the service connection where the property owner is the customer for the period ending on January 31 of each calendar year.
(B) The city will give at least 45 days notice before the public hearing of the delinquencies to the customer to which each such delinquency relates.
(C) The City Council will schedule a noticed public hearing for its first meeting in May of each calendar year at which time delinquent charges together with penalties, will be placed on the equalized assessment roll for the fiscal year commencing on the July 1 following the conduct of the hearing for collection. Notice of the public hearing will be made in accordance with Cal. Gov't Code § 6066.
(D) Thereafter, the delinquent charges, together with penalties, will be collected in the same manner, by the same persons, and at the same time as, together and not separately from, general taxes collected on behalf of the city and other taxing authorities. The provisions of this section will only be applicable to delinquent charges where the customer is the land owner or has executed a Lien Authorization Agreement.
(E) Civil debt: All charges and penalties imposed pursuant to this chapter are civil debts owed to the city by the customer as to the account to which the charges and penalties apply.
(Ord. 1023, passed 2-1-99; Am. Ord. 1071, passed 7-21-03)