(A) When the department finds that all or part of any work of backfilling or surfacing should be done by the department or under its supervision by reason of the location of the work or of unusual hazard, undue delay, failure to conform to its specifications or for other good cause, the department may itself perform the work or may employ a contractor to perform it and may thereupon proceed to collect the cost thereof from the person primarily obligated to perform the work, from the person for whose benefit the work was done or the owner of the land benefited by the work, or from all of them; and the department shall take such action to collect such cost and to impose and enforce liens, including mechanics' liens, as may be authorized or permitted by law.
(B) (1) Where the permittee is the owner of property identified in a permit, the cost of abating nuisances, filling and covering excavations and backfilling, done by the city or the performance by the city of any other work which any contractor or other person may have failed to perform shall be a lien on the property and shall be a personal obligation of the permittee.
(2) The cost of such work or abatement shall be submitted to the City Council for confirmation and notice of the time and place fixed for the City Council to consider the cost shall be made by mail to the person liable for payment thereof at least five days prior to the time of consideration by the Council of such cost.
(3) After confirmation of the cost, the cost shall become a lien on the property of the person chargeable with such cost and may be added to the next regular tax bill levied against that person's property for municipal purposes.
(4) A certified copy of the action of the City Council confirming the cost shall be filed with the County Auditor on or before August 10.
(5) The County Auditor shall enter the cost of abatement or of the work performed on the county tax roll for whatever land is owned by the person chargeable with such cost.
(6) The amount of the cost shall be collected at the time and in the manner ordinary municipal taxes are collected.
(7) If delinquent, the amount is subject to the same penalties and procedures for foreclosure and sale provided for ordinary municipal taxes.
(‘81 Code, § 12.08.100) (Am. Ord. 1322, passed 11-2-22)