A. The code enforcement officer, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, shall forward to the owner or person in charge of property a notice stating:

1. The total cost of the abatement including the administrative overhead;

2. The cost as indicated will be assessed to and become a lien against the property unless paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the notice;

3. If the owner or person in charge of property objects to the cost of the abatement as indicated, he or she may file a notice of objection with the code enforcement officer not more than ten (10) days from the date of the notice of assessment.

B. Upon the expiration of ten (10) days after the date of the notice of assessment, the council in the regular course of business shall hear and determine the objections to the costs to be assessed.

C. If the costs of the abatement are not paid within thirty (30) days from the date of the notice of assessment, an assessment of the costs as stated or as determined by the council shall be made by resolution and shall be entered in the docket of city liens. Upon such entry being made, the assessment is a lien upon the property from which the nuisance was removed or abated.

D. The lien shall be enforced in the same manner that liens for street improvements are enforced, and the lien shall bear interest at the rate of nine percent per year. Such interest shall commence to rim from the date of the entry of the lien in the lien docket.

E. An error in the name of the owner or person in charge of property shall not void the assessment, nor will a failure to receive the notice of the proposed assessment render the assessment void, but it shall remain a valid lien against the property. (Ord. 1999-5 § 4: prior code § 5.395)