§ 34-278. Collection of costs when work is done by city-parish government.
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When the owner fails to respond to proper notice in accordance with section 34-277 and the city-parish consolidated government is required to have removed the improper
drainage facility and to replace the improper drainage facility in accordance with
sound engineering practices, the actual cost to the city-parish consolidated government
in having the improper drainage structure removed and replaced with a proper drainage
structure is declared to be a charge or expense of the property wherein the violation
exists. The cost and expenses thereof shall be collected in a manner fixed by law
for delinquencies. The director of the public works department, through the office
of the city-parish engineer, shall make demand on the owners of such property for
the payment of such charges, costs or expenses. After the destruction or removal of
the improper drainage structure and replacement with an adequate drainage structure
in accordance with sound engineering practices shall have been done at the direction
of the director of the public works department through the office of the city-parish
engineer, and after due notice as stated in this section, if the costs or expenses
for the removal and eradication of the improper drainage structure and replacement
thereof shall not have been paid within 30 days after demand is made, the director
of the public works department, through the office of the city-parish engineer, shall
send an attested bill of the costs and expenses to the director of the administrative
services department, who shall add the amount of the bill to the next tax bill of
the owner. The director of the public works department shall also cause to be recorded,
in the mortgage records of the office of the clerk of court for the parish, an attested
bill showing the cost and expense incurred, so as to establish for the city-parish
consolidated government a lien and privilege securing the payment by the property
owner of such charges, costs and expenses.
(City Code 1965, § 12½-40)
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