The City Foreman shall cause an account to be kept against each lot or parcel of land for the removal of snow from the sidewalk and the same shall be certified to the Finance Officer on or before April 15 of each year. The Finance Officer shall prepare an estimate of the assessment against each lot or parcel of land for removal of snow for the preceding winter and fall, and submit the same to the City Council for its approval at or before its first meeting in June, and shall publish in the official newspaper of the city a notice to property owners of the time and place when the City Council will meet for the purpose of approving such estimates. Upon the day so named, the City Council shall meet, and if it finds said estimates correct, shall approve the same, or if not correct, it shall correct or modify the same and approve the same as corrected and modified, and file such assessment with the City Finance Officer. From the date of such approval and filing, the assessment shall become a special lien against the various pieces of property described in said assessment, and shall be collected in like manner as special assessments now collected for public improvements.
(Prior Code, § 11-3-4)