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A. If a person is notified as provided in Section 8.32.070 to comply with Sections 8.32.020 through 8.32.070, and neither complies nor protests within the ten days provided for, or if a person protests and the city council decides that such person should perform certain work and for ten days after notice of such decision does not do so, the city shall cause the work to be performed at city expense.
B. The street superintendent shall keep an account of the cost of all work performed at city expense pursuant to this chapter and shall render an itemized report to the city council showing the cost of protecting each separate excavation, sump, cellar or ditch, upon each separate parcel of land.
C. Before the report is submitted to the city council, a copy of it shall be posted for at least three days on or near the chamber door of the council with a notice of the time when the report will be submitted to the council for confirmation.
D. A postcard notice of the time and place of the submission of the report for confirmation, stating generally the nature of the report, shall be mailed by the council to the owners of the parcels who have filed with the council a written request for postcard notice within one year prior to the date of mailing the notice, at least seven days prior to the date of submission for confirmation.
(Prior code §§ 9.36.120 -- 9.36.150 (Ord. 388 Art. 4, 1954))
A. At the time fixed for receiving and considering the report, the city council shall hear it and any objections of any property owners liable to be assessed for the work of protection.
B. Thereupon the council may make such modifications in the report as it deems necessary, after which, by order or resolution, the report shall be confirmed.
C. The amounts of the costs for the protection work upon the various parcels of land mentioned in the report as confirmed shall constitute liens on such parcels for the amount expended thereon by the city.
(Prior code § 9.36.160 (Ord. 388 Art. 5, 1954))
A. The city council shall record a certified copy of the report in the office of the county recorder.
B. The city may bring appropriate actions in courts of competent jurisdiction to collect any amounts due for work of protecting excavations performed by the city and to foreclose liens for such amounts.
(Prior code §§ 9.36.170, 9.36.180 (Ord. 388 Art. 6, 1954))
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