(A) After confirmation of the costs of abatement and their assessment upon the real property, the City Clerk shall promptly mail a statement of the costs to the property owner at the address to which notice of the hearing before the Board of Public Utilities was sent by the City Clerk. Failure to mail the statement or failure to receive it shall, in no way, affect the assessment, lien or obligation. If the assessment is not paid within 15 days after its confirmation, the City Clerk may record a notice of lien in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Tulare a certificate substantially in the following form, to-wit:
NOTICE OF LIEN Pursuant to authority of Ordinance No. of the Municipal Code of the City of Tulare, the City of Tulare, a municipal corporation, located in Tulare County, State of California, did cause a certain public nuisance located on the hereinafter described real property to be abated, and thereafter, on the _______day of ____________, 20 , did assess the costs thereof, in the amount of $___________, and impose the costs as a lien against the real property. The amount of costs has not been paid nor any part thereof and the City of Tulare does hereby claim a lien upon the real property in the amount. The same shall continue as an assessment and lien upon the real property until the amount with interest at the rate of 6% per annum thereon from the date of recordation of this instrument in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Tulare has been paid in full. The real property hereinabove mentioned and upon which a lien is claimed is that certain piece or parcel of land in the City of Tulare, County of Tulare, State of California, described as follows, to-wit: (Description) Dated this _______ day of ____________, 20 . CITY OF TULARE A Municipal Corporation By City Clerk |
(B) As an alternative to or in addition to recordation of a notice of lien as hereinabove set forth, the City Clerk may deliver a notice of lien, which shall also describe the real property by the description used by the County Assessor for the same property for the then current tax year, to the Auditor of Tulare County who shall enter the amount of the assessment and lien on the assessment roll opposite the real property as listed therein. The amount of the assessment and lien shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes and assessments against the property. All laws applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of city taxes and county taxes are hereby made applicable to such assessment and lien.
(1995 Code, § 7.20.100) (Ord. 17-03, passed 3-21-2017; Ord. 15-02, passed 5-5-2015)