Section 7.20.100 Collection of Assessment.

(A) After confirmation of the costs of abatement and their assessment upon said real property, the City Clerk shall promptly mail a statement of the costs to the property owner at the address to which notice of the hearing before the Board of Public Utilities was sent by the City Clerk. Failure to mail the statement or failure to receive it shall in no way affect the assessment, lien or obligation. If the assessment is not paid within fifteen (15) days after its confirmation, the City Clerk may record a notice of lien in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Tulare a certificate substantially in the following form, to-wit:

Pursuant to authority of Ordinance No. of the Municipal Code of the City of Tulare, the City of Tulare, a municipal corporation, located in Tulare County, State of California, did cause a certain public nuisance located on the hereinafter described real property to be abated, and thereafter, on the _______day of ____________, 20, did assess the costs thereof, in the amount of $___________, and impose said costs as a lien against said real property. The said amount of costs has not been paid nor any part thereof and the City of Tulare does hereby claim a lien upon said real property in said amount. The same shall continue as an assessment and lien upon said real property until said amount with interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum thereon from the date of recordation of this instrument in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Tulare has been paid in full.

The real property hereinabove mentioned and upon which a lien is claimed is that certain piece or parcel of land in the City of Tulare, County of Tulare, State of California, described as follows, to-wit:

(B) As an alternative to or in addition to recordation of a notice of lien as hereinabove set forth, the City Clerk may deliver a notice of lien, which shall also describe said real property by the description used by the County Assessor for the same property for the then current tax year, to the Auditor of Tulare County who shall enter the amount of the assessment and lien on the assessment roll opposite said real property as listed therein. The amount of the assessment and lien shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes and assessments against said property. All laws applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of City taxes and County taxes are hereby made applicable to such assessment and lien.