HomeMy WebLinkAbout1971-1319 ORDINANCE NO. /31
AN ORDINANCE: relating to public services and utilities; providing for
giving notice of Irrigation System Maintenance Assess-
ments and establishing a penalty on delinquent payment
of such assessments; amending Section 7.24.055 of the
City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency.
111 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section. Section 7.24.055 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7.24.055 Notice of Assessment--Penalt .
(1) Upon the passage of the ordinance donfirming 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 one time
each week for two consecutive weeks stating that said assess-
ment roll is in his hands for collection and that any assess-
ments 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 addi-
tion 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
assessment for the respective lot, tract or parcel of prop-
erty which shall be described or referred to by the parcel
number assigned by Yakima County in such statement. Such
statement shall also contain a notice of the date of delin-
quency fnr payment of the assessment, and of the penalty to
be imposed on delinquent payments as provided herein.
(2) All assessments levied for the current year 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 current year's
assessment, or one dollar, whichever is greater, shall be
imposed on all current year's delinquent assessments. In
the event any delinquent assessment 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. In no event shall more than two
penalties be imposed upon each year's assessment."
410 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 declared
to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immedi-
ately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law
and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 21st day of
June, 1971.
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411 Mayor
ATTEST:
Deputy Cit Clerk
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