(A) The Code Enforcement Officer shall cause an account to be kept against each lot of the cost for cutting the noxious vegetation during the growing season of each year, and the same shall be certified to the City Finance Officer on or before September 1 of each year.
(B) The Finance Officer shall prepare an estimate of the assessment against each lot for the cutting of noxious vegetation for the preceding growing season, including therein the expense of levying such special assessment against each lot. Such estimate shall be submitted to the Council for its approval on or before the second meeting of September of each year.
(C) The Finance Officer shall publish a notice of the time and place of hearing in the official newspaper not less than ten nor more than 20 days before the date set for the hearing. The notice shall, in general terms, describe the reason for which the special assessment is levied, the time and place of the hearing, and that the roll will be open for public inspection at the office of the Finance Officer and shall refer to the special assessment roll for further particulars. In addition to the publication of the notice of hearing, the Finance Officer shall mail a copy of the notice, by first class or certified mail, addressed to the owner or owners of any property to be assessed for the work performed at the address shown by the records of the Director of Equalization. The mailing may not be less than ten nor more than 20 days before the date set for the hearing.
(D) Upon the day so named the Council shall meet and, if it finds said 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 such assessment roll with the Finance Officer.
(E) From the date of the approval and filing of such assessment roll with the Finance Officer, the same shall be and become a special lien against the various pieces of property described in said assessment roll and shall be collected in like manner as the law provides for special assessments for public improvements as are now collected.
(Prior Code, § 12.03.06) (Ord. 499, passed - -; Ord. 680, passed - -; Ord. 731, passed - -; Ord. 792, passed - -; Ord. 982, passed 1-4-2021)