(a) The city’s statement of cost under section 150.48 of this Chapter shall be:
(1) An assessment on the land from which the city abated the violation(s), and
(2) Collected at the same time and in the same manner as other city assessments are collected.
(b) The city shall record the assessment in the Cochise County Recorder’s Office. From the date of its recording, the assessment shall be a lien on the land.
(c) The lien shall be inferior only to general tax liens.
(d) After recording the lien, the city may institute an action to enforce the lien in the superior court for Cochise County. The recorded assessment is prima facie evidence of the truth of all matters recited in the assessment and the regularity of all proceedings before the recordation. Upon judgment of foreclosure and order of sale, the city shall sell the land to satisfy the lien.
(e) A prior assessment under this section is not a bar to a later assessment. Any number of liens on the same land may be enforced in the same action.
(f) Failure to enforce the lien shall not affect its validity.
(g) Assessments that are imposed under this section run against the property until paid and are due and payable in equal annual installments as follows:
(1) Assessments of less than five hundred dollars shall be paid within one year after the assessment is recorded.
(2) Assessments of five hundred dollars or more, but less than one thousand dollars, shall be paid within two years after the assessment is recorded.
(3) Assessments of one thousand dollars or more, but less than five thousand dollars, shall be paid within three years after the assessment is recorded.
(4) Assessments of five thousand dollars or more, but less than ten thousand dollars, shall be paid within six years after the assessment is recorded.
(5) Assessments of ten thousand dollars or more shall be paid within ten years after the assessment is recorded.
(Ord. 2015-009, passed 12-17-15)