(a) If the owner of any land or the occupant or person having control or management of any lot, place, area or parcel of land within the City whether residential, commercial or industrial, fails to comply with Sections 694.01 and 694.02, the City shall cause weeds, grass and/or other vegetation to be cut, destroyed or removed, together with any grading necessary to allow the removal of the vegetation. The actual cost of such cutting, removal, grading or destruction, plus an administration fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) or twenty percent of the contracting charge, whichever is greater, for each cut shall become, at once, a debt to the City from the person, firm, corporation and/or other legal entity against whom it is assessed, and the amount assessed, together with all charges thereon, shall, on November 15, become a lien on the property assessed of the same character and effect as a lien created by general law for State and County taxes until the same is paid, including interest. The remedy provided for herein is in addition to the penalty provided in Section 694.99.
(b) Once the notice has been published pursuant to Section 694.02, the City need bill only once a year regardless of the number of cuts made on the lot or vacant lot and payment shall be due in full by December 15 of the year billed.
(Ord. 690. Passed 2-2-00; Ord. 17-991. Passed 8-2-17.)