The charge imposed by Section 789.02 shall be a continuing lien upon all of the property, real, personal and mixed, owned and used by each such utility within the City and shall be collected by the Director of Finance in the same manner as other similar taxes are collected, and shall be enforced and collected in the same manner and by the same remedies as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for the enforcement of liens and levies for State and County taxes.
(1961 Code Sec. 789.04)