(A) Report on fees/penalty charges. The Enforcement Official shall keep an itemized account of the fees and penalty charges incurred in administering the provisions of this code and submit a billing therefor to the owner of the rental housing, motel, or hotel unit as the owner's name and address appear on the last equalized assessment roll of Tulare County or as is known to the Enforcement Official. Once a year the Enforcement Official shall prepare and file with the City Clerk, a report specifying the date and nature of the inspections performed, the amount of unpaid program and other fees and penalty charges imposed in the prior year, and the names and addresses of the owner of the rental housing , hotel or motel unit, and any mortgagee or beneficiary under a deed of trust to the property, as such names and addresses appear on the last equalized assessment roll of Tulare County or as known to the Enforcement Official.
(B) Notice of hearing on report. Upon receipt of the report of the Enforcement Official the City Clerk shall fix a time, date, and place for hearing the report and any protests or objections thereto. The City Clerk shall cause notice of the hearing to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, and served by mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the owner of the property as the owner's name and address appear on the last equalized assessment roll of Tulare County, if such so appear, or as known to the City Clerk. Notice shall also be given by mail to any other person noted in the report as the name and address of such person appears on the last equalized assessment roll of Tulare County, if such so appear or as known to the City Clerk. Such notice shall be given at least ten days prior to the date set for hearing and shall specify the day, hour, and place when the City Council will hear and pass upon the Enforcement Official's report, together with any objections or protests which may be filed by any person interested in or affected by the proposed fee.
(C) Hearing on report. At the time and place of said hearing, the City Council shall hear and pass upon the report of the Enforcement Official together with any objections or protests hereto. The Council may make such revision, correction, or modification in the report or the fees charged as it may deem just; and when the Council is satisfied with the correctness of the fees charged, the report (as submitted or as revised, corrected, or modified) together with the fees charged shall be confirmed or rejected. The decision of the City Council on the report and the fees charged, and on all protests or objections, shall be final and conclusive.
(D) Collection on tax roll.
(1) After confirmation of the fees charged, the same shall become a special assessment against the property affected.
(2) A copy of the assessment shall be given to the City Finance Director, who may receive payment thereon until a list of unpaid assessments shall have been sent annually to the County Auditor for effecting collection on the tax roll at the time and in the manner of ordinary municipal taxes. The descriptions of the property reported shall be those used for the same property on the County Assessor's map books for the current year. All laws and ordinances applicable to the levy, collection, and enforcement of city taxes are hereby made applicable to the assessment hereby imposed, and the lien of said assessment shall have priority of the taxes with which it is collected.
(E) Annual report of enforcement official. The Enforcement Official shall prepare a report each year concerning the administration of this code. The annual report shall describe the number of units inspected, whether the inspection was mandatory or complaint generated, the nature of violations observed, enforcement measures taken, and the status of all billings for fees that have been made. The Enforcement Official shall submit the annual report to the City Manager each calendar year at such a time that it may be submitted to the City Council with the proposed city budget for the following fiscal year.
(Ord. 07-26, passed 12-18-2007)