§ 97-31. Liability for costs when LCPG does work; collection.
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The actual cost and expense to the LCPG of having work performed pursuant to the provisions
of this article as determined by sections 97-30 and 97-34 is declared to be a charge, cost or expense of the property abutting the sidewalk
or banquette or of the lot, place or area, where such grass, weeds, and/or noxious
foliage, and/or deleterious or unhealthful growths have been cut, destroyed or removed.
Such costs and expenses shall be collected in the manner fixed for the collection
of taxes and shall be subject to the same penalties for delinquencies. The director
of the public works department or his designee shall issue a written demand to the
owner(s) of such property for the full payment of such charges, costs or expenses,
including any administrative charges, filing fees or publication expenses. After the
cutting, destruction or removal of such weeds, grass or growths as shall have been
done by the director of the public works department, after due notice as above stated
if the costs or expenses thereof shall not have been paid within 30 days after demand,
the director of the finance department shall add the amount of the bill to the next
tax bill of the owner. The director of the finance department shall also have recorded
in the mortgage office of the parish an attested bill showing the cost and expense
incurred for the work and the place or property on which the work was done, so as
to establish for the LCPG a lien and privilege securing the payment by the property
owner of the charges, costs and expenses and legal interest on such amounts from the
date of recordation.
In addition to the remedy provided above, the LCPG may institute suit to enforce the
collection of all monies owed under this article, including attorney's fees incurred
in connection with such suit as provided in subsection 1-9(f) hereof.
