(A) Right of city to enter and cut upon failure of owner to comply. If the occupant, person in charge, or owner of any lot fails to cut weeds and noxious vegetation to be cut during the growing season, the city shall have the right to enter upon any such lot or parcel of land for this purpose.
(B) Special assessment. The City Manager or his or her designee shall cause an account to be kept against each lot of the cost for the cutting of weeds and noxious vegetation during the growing season of each year, and the same shall be certified to the Finance Officer on or before the first day of December 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 cutting of weeds and noxious vegetation for the preceding growing season, 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 roll with the Finance Officer.
(E) Lien against property affected; collection. From the date of the approval and filing of the assessment roll with the Finance Officer, the same shall be and become a special lien against the various pieces of property described in the assessment roll and shall be collected in like manner as special assessments for public improvements are now collected.
(1975 Code, § 15-67) (Ord. 847, passed 8-6-1984)