(A) Right of city to enter and remove and abate nuisance. If the occupant, person in charge, or owner of any lot fails to remove or abate a nuisance as required, the City Manager or his or her designee shall have the right to enter upon any such lot or parcel of land for the purpose of removing or abating the nuisance.
(B) Special assessment. The City Manager or his or her designee shall cause an account to be kept against each lot of the costs of removing and abating the nuisance during each year, and the same shall be certified to the Finance Officer on or before the first day of December of each year.
(C) Estimate to be submitted to council annually. The Finance Officer shall prepare an estimate of the assessment against each lot for the abatement of the nuisance for the preceding year, including therein the expense of levying the special assessment against each lot. The estimate shall be submitted to the city council for its approval on or before the first day of January of each year.
(D) Notice of Council meeting to approve. The Finance Officer shall cause to be published in the official newspaper a notice of the time and place when the Council will meet for the purpose of approving the estimate, the notice to be published once not less than 1 week before the hearing. Upon the day so named, the Council shall meet; and if it finds the estimate correct, it shall approve the same by resolution, or if not correct, it shall correct or modify the same and approve the same as modified or corrected, and file the assessment rule with the Finance Officer.
(E) Lien against property affected and collection. From the date of the approval and filing of the assessment rule with the Finance Officer, the same shall be and become a special lien against the various pieces of property described and the assessment rule shall be collected in a like manner as special assessments for public improvements are now collected.
(1975 Code, § 15-55) (Ord. 849, passed 8-6-1984)