§ 30-48. Report–Notice.

• (a) The city clerk shall cause notice of the hearing on the report to be given by mailing, postage prepaid, to all owners of property subject to said assessment to pay said costs of maintenance and operation; to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation; to be posted on or near any door, bulletin board in or adjacent to the city hall. Said mailing, publication and posting shall be completed not less than ten days prior to such hearing.

• (b) The form of notice to be published and posted shall be substantially as follows:

PUBLIC NOTICE OF HEARING ON MAINTENANCE DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Administrator has caused to be prepared and filed with the City Clerk, a report, in writing, which provides the basis for the levy of benefit assessments for the costs of maintenance and operation on all parcels of property within said maintenance district. Said report sets forth the amounts to be provided in the budget for maintenance and operation, a description of each lot or property in the district, by a legal description, assessor's parcel number or other description sufficient to identify the same, and the amount of assessment to be levied for the fiscal year 19_____ -19_____ against each lot. Said report is open to public inspection.

Said report will be heard by the City at its meeting to be held on the day of ,19, at the hour of o'clock_________ m. in the regular meeting place of said Council Chambers, City Hall Oakdale, California, at which time said Council will examine said report and hear all persons interested therein.

Any interested owner, objecting to the amount of the assessment on any lot or parcel of property owned by him, may file with the City Clerk at or before the hour fixed for hearing a protest, in writing, signed by him, describing the lot or property so that it may be identified, and stating the grounds of his protest, and may appear at said hearing and be heard in regard thereto.

• (c) The form of mailed notice shall be substantially as hereinabove set forth, and shall also contain the amount of the proposed assessment against said lot or property as set forth in the report.

• (d) If the council adopts the report, the requirement for mailed notice shall not thereafter apply to hearings on reports prepared in subsequent years for the annual benefit assessment and notice by posting and publication as provided in this section shall be adequate except that the city clerk shall give notice thereof to owners owning lots or parcels in the following categories:

  • (1) Where there is an increase in the amount of the annual benefit assessment by reason of a change of benefit zone or a change in the formula upon and by which annual assessment levies for the payment of the costs and expenses of said maintenance and operation will be apportioned according to benefits among the several lots or parcels of property within the district and the zones, if any;

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• (2) Where there has been a division of any lot or parcel of land assessed during the previous year, and, as a result thereof, the divided lots or parcels are owned by different persons;

• (3) Where there has been an annexation of said lots of parcels to an existing district. [Ord. No. 1003, § 1.]

§ 30-49. Report–Hearing–Determining final. [Ord. No. 1003, § 1.]

The city council shall hold the hearing at the time and place specified in the resolution and in any order continuing the hearing. During the course of, or upon the conclusion of the hearing, council may order changes in any of the matters provided in the report. Upon the conclusion of said hearing, the council may adopt a resolution confirming the report, either as submitted or as changed by it.

All decisions and determinations of the council, on notice and hearing as aforesaid, shall be final and conclusive upon all persons entitled to appeal to it, as to all errors, informalities and irregularities which the council might have avoided, or have remedied during the hearing on the report.

§ 30-50. Report–Certification and filing. [Ord. No. 1003, § 1.]

The report, together with the certificate of the city clerk as to the fact and date of approval and adoption thereof by the council as provided in section 30-49 shall forthwith be delivered to the finance officer, who shall thereafter deliver said report, to the officer designated by law to extend ad valorem property taxes upon the tax roll on which they are collected.

§ 30-51. Benefit assessments–Posting. [Ord. No. 1003, § 1.]

The officer designated by law to extend ad valorem property taxes upon the tax roll on which they are collected shall post to said tax roll the total amount of the benefit assessment levied and to be collected for said year on each lot or parcel of property within the district as set forth. The amount so posted shall appear as a separate item on the tax bill.

§ 30-52. Method of collection. [Ord. No. 1003, § 1.]

The special assessments shall be collected upon the last equalized secured and utility tax rolls upon which said ad valorem property taxes are collected. They shall be in addition to all of said ad valorem property taxes, and shall be collected. They shall be in addition to all of said ad valorem property taxes, and shall be collected together with, and not separate therefrom, and enforced in the same manner and by the same persons and at the same time and with the same penalties and interest as are said ad valorem property taxes. All laws applicable to the collection and enforcement of said ad valorem property taxes shall be applicable to said special benefit assessment levy, and the assessed property, if sold for taxes, shall be subject to redemption in the same manner as such real property is redeemed from the sale or ad valorem property taxes, and if not redeemed, shall in like manner pass to the purchaser.

§ 30-53. Omitted property. [Ord. No. 1003, § 1.]

If any property within the district is erroneously omitted in any such report, said property shall be assessed for the omitted amount in the next year after said omission is discovered, and appropriate provisions shall be made in the report for said year.

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§ 30-54. Consolidated hearing. [Ord. No. 1003, § 1.]

The procedures relating to the formation of a maintenance district or the annexation to an existing district and the alternative method for the levy of the annual benefit assessment hereunder may be consolidated for hearing purposes.

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