HomeMy WebLinkAbout1968-1004 ORDINANCE NO. / 7
AN ORDINANCE relating to public services and utilities; specifying a
procedure for giving notice of and collecting irrigation
maintenance assessments and imposing a penalty on delin-
quent payments of such assessments; and amending Section
7.24.055 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and de-
claring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That Section 7.24.055 of the City of Yakima Municipal
• Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.24.055 NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT - PENALTY. Upon the passage
of the ordinance confirming the assessment roll, a certified
copy thereof shall be delivered to the city treasurer by the
city clerk. Upon receipt of such assessment roll, the city
treasurer shall publish a notice in the legal newspaper of
the city of Yakima for ten consecutive daily issues stating
that said assessment roll is in his hands for collection and
that any assessments thereon may be paid at any time within
seventy days from the date of the first publication of the notice
without penalty, interest or costs, and that unless payment be
made within such time, such assessments become delinquent, and
that the penalty provided herein will be imposed. In addition
to such published notice, the city treasurer shall mail a
statement to each person listed on the assessment roll, at
the address shown thereon, specifying the amount of the assess -
ment for the respective lot, tract or parcel of property which
shall be described in such statement. Such statement shall
also contain a notice of the date of delinquency for payment
of the assessment, and of the penalty to be imposed on delin-
quent payments as provided herein.
All assessments shall become delinquent if not paid within
seventy days from the date of the first publication of the
notice in the legal newspaper of the city of Yakima as provided
herein, and a penalty of ten percent of the amount of the assess-
ment, or one dollar, whichever is greater, shall be imposed on
all delinquent assessments. In the event any delinquent assess -
ment is not paid prior to November 1st of the year for which
the assessment was levied, an additional penalty of the same
amount shall be imposed on such delinquent assessment."
Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare
of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declar-
ed to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect
immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by
law and by the City Charter.
410 : PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 19th day of
February, 1968.
ATTEST: Mayor
City Clerk