Article IV — Assessment of Cost of Facility Changes

Upon the day and hour set for the hearing of public protests, the board shall hear and consider the report and all protests, if any, and then proceed to, by resolution, affirm, modify or reject the assessment.

(Prior gen. code § 5-520.0)

If an assessment is not paid within ten days after its confirmation by the board, the amount of the assessment shall become a lien on the property against which the assessment is made, by the building official filing in the office of the county recorder of this county, a notice of lien substantially in the following form:

Notice of Lien

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by _______ I did, on the _____ day of ____, 19, cause

distribution service conduits and conductors to be connected with an underground junction box or splicing chamber, pursuant to Title Chapter of the Alameda County General Ordinance Code, for the purpose of supplying distribution service to the real property hereinafter described, and the Board of Supervisors did,

on the _____ day of ____, 19, by its Resolution No. , assess the cost thereof upon the real property hereinafter described, and the same has not been paid, not any part thereof, and the County of Alameda does hereby claim a lien upon said real property in the sum of $, and the same shall be a lien upon said real property until the said sum, with interest thereon at the rate of 6% per annum from the date of the assessment of said amount against said property, has been paid in full and discharged of record.

The real property hereinbefore mentioned, and upon which a lien is hereby claimed, is that certain parcel of land in the County of Alameda, State of California, particularly described as follows:

(Description of property)

Dates this ___ day of_______, 19___

________ Building Official

(Prior gen. code § 5-520.1)

From and after the date of recordation of the notice of the lien as provided in Section 13.16.210, the amount of the assessment shall be a lien on the property described therein, and it shall bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum until paid in full. Such lien shall continue until the amount of such assessment and all interest thereon shall have been paid. The statute of limitations shall not run against the right of the county to enforce the payment of said lien and accrued interest. From and after the date of the recordation of such notice of lien all persons shall be deemed to have had notice of the contents thereof.

(Prior gen. code § 5-520.2)

If the amount of the lien is not paid within thirty (30) days after the date of recordation thereof, the board may instruct the District Attorney to bring an action in the name of the county to foreclose the lien.

(Prior gen. code § 5-520.3)