All charges made and levied against the occupant or owner of unoccupied premises for the cutting of weeds as herein set forth which are not paid on or before April 1 of each year shall be deemed to be made a lien on the premises thereby affected and are recognized to constitute such a lien and whenever such charge against any piece or parcel of property shall be delinquent for six months, the city official or officials in charge of the collection and levy thereof shall certify annually, on or before April 1 of each succeeding year to the tax assessing officer of the city, the fact of such delinquencies and charges for weed cutting, whereupon such charges and delinquencies shall be by said tax assessing official, entered upon the next tax roll as a valid charge against such tax roll and premises represented thereby and shall be collected and shall become a lien thereon to be enforced in the same manner as general city taxes against such premises are collected and the lien thereon shall be enforced in the same manner.
(1990 Code, § 9.45)