§ 11.24.09. Enforcement of lien.

If the city has any net costs in removal of any house, building and/or structure, the city shall have a lien on the property as provided by A.C.A. § 14-54-904. The lien may be enforced in either one of the following manners:

A.

The lien may be enforced at any time within eighteen (18) months after work has been done, by an action in the chancery court; or

B.

The amount of the lien herein provided may be determined at a hearing before the governing body of the municipality held after thirty (30) days' written notice by certified mail to the owner or owners of the property, if the name and whereabouts of the owner or owners be known, and if the name of the owner or owners cannot be determined, then only after publication of notice of such hearing in a newspaper having a bona fide circulation in the county wherein the said property is located for one insertion per week for four consecutive weeks, the determination of said governing body being subject to appeal by the property owner in the chancery court, and the amount so determined at said hearing, plus ten (10) percent penalty for collection, shall be by the governing body of the municipality certified to the tax collector of the county wherein said municipality is located, and by him placed on the tax books as delinquent taxes, and collected accordingly, and the amount, less three percent thereof, when so collected shall be paid to the municipality by the county tax collector.

( Ord. No. 2002-11, § 9 )