(1) Within 10 days after the ordinance levying assessment has been passed, the City Recorder shall send by registered mail a notice of assessment to the owner of the assessed property.

(2) Should the property owner be assessed more than $25.00, he or she can, if he or she does so within 10 days of mailing of notice of the assessment, file with the City a written application to pay the assessment in installments, or the unpaid balance of the assessment in installments.

(3) The City may, upon application, extend the time for filing a written application beyond the 10-day period.

(4) The assessed property owner shall have the right to make payment in two annual installments over a period of 20 years.

(5) He or she shall be charged at seven percent interest on the outstanding balance.

(6) The City Recorder shall keep records of assessments and payments made, unless the City Council shall designate another government agency or agent of the City to keep said records and receive payments.

(7) The City shall have the obligation to give notice of due dates on payments.

(8) The assessed property owner may pay off the assessment at any time and should he or she do so, then the City shall show on its lien docket the satisfaction or discharge of any lien created herein.

(9) Where the property owner fails to make payment of the assessment or the installment payments on the assessment, and the delinquency continues for more than 60 days, the City may foreclose its lien upon the real property to which the assessment was applied.

(10) In addition to mailing notice to the owner of the assessed property, the City shall publish notice of such assessment twice in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, with the first publication made not later than 10 days after the date of the assessment ordinance passage. (Ord. 22 § 10, passed 12-14-1976; Code 2014 § 34.25)