Chapter 13.20
LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

Sections:

13.20.010    Creation.

13.20.020    Preliminary estimates and assessment rolls.

13.20.030    Bonds.

13.20.040    Assessments – Cost of collecting.

13.20.050    Assessments – Fund.

13.20.060    Assessments – Delinquency or foreclosure.

13.20.070    Foreclosure of delinquent assessments

13.20.010 Creation.

The creation of local improvement districts or utility local improvement districts by the city, the levying and collection of assessments therein and the issuance of local improvement district bonds and/or warrants, shall be accomplished in accordance with the applicable provisions of the statutes of the state and the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 156 § 1, 1972).

13.20.020 Preliminary estimates and assessment rolls.

The city engineer or professional engineering firm retained by the city for such purpose is designated to make preliminary estimates and assessment rolls for local improvement districts of the city and to furnish to the city council such information as may be required by law to be furnished to the city council in connection with the formation of local improvement districts or utility local improvement districts. (Ord. 156 § 2, 1972).

13.20.030 Bonds.

Local improvement district bonds shall be in such denominations as may be provided in the ordinance authorizing their issue and shall be executed in the manner provided by law and such ordinance. (Ord. 156 § 3, 1972).

13.20.040 Assessments – Cost of collecting.

In levying assessments in local improvement districts, the city shall estimate the reasonable costs to be incurred in collecting such assessments and same shall be added to the assessment roll as a part of the cost of the improvement. (Ord. 156 § 4, 1972).

13.20.050 Assessments – Fund.

Assessments levied in utility local improvement districts shall be paid into such revenue bond fund as the city council may designate for the payment of revenue bonds issued to pay the costs of such improvements. (Ord. 156 § 5, 1972).

13.20.060 Assessments – Delinquency or foreclosure.

The ordinance levying assessments in a local improvement district or utility local improvement district shall prescribe the time within which assessments or installments shall be paid and the interest rate thereon. Installments of assessments which shall become due in any local improvement district or utility local improvement district of the city shall be delinquent if not paid when due. All delinquent installments shall bear a penalty of 12 percent of both the principal and interest due on such delinquent installment or installments. If any assessment installment shall become delinquent, the entire assessment shall become due and payable and the collection thereof may be enforced by foreclosure in the manner provided by the laws of the state; provided, however, that payment of all delinquent installments together with interest, penalty and costs at any time before entry of judgment in foreclosure shall extend the time of payment on the remainder of the assessment installments as if there had been no delinquency or foreclosure. (Ord. 390 § 1, 1982; Ord. 156 § 6, 1972).

13.20.070 Foreclosure of delinquent assessments.

If, on the first day of January, in any year, two installments of any local improvement assessment are delinquent, or if the final installment thereof has been delinquent, or if the final installment thereof has been delinquent for more than one year, the city attorney is authorized to commence foreclosure proceedings on the delinquent assessment or delinquent installments by an appropriate action on behalf of the city in Pierce County Superior Court. The foreclosure proceeding shall be in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 35.50 RCW, as now exists or as may hereafter be amended. Such foreclosure proceedings shall be commenced on or before September 1, 1986, and thereafter on or before June 1st of each succeeding year. (Ord. 483 § 1, 1986).