Chapter 3.12
LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSESSMENTS*

Sections:

3.12.010    Local improvement assessment and financing procedures.

3.12.020    Foreclosure of delinquent installments and assessments.

3.12.030    Acceleration of installments and attorney fees.

*    Prior ordinance history: Ords. 184 and 211.

3.12.010 Local improvement assessment and financing procedures.

Whenever the city council provides for making local improvements and for paying the whole or any portion of the costs and expenses thereof by levying and collecting special assessments on property specially benefitted thereby, the proceedings therefor shall be in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 35A.43 of the Revised Code of Washington, as now in effect and as the same may hereafter be amended, and the provisions of this code, as now in effect and as the same may hereafter be amended. (Ord. 566 § 1 (part), 1990).

3.12.020 Foreclosure of delinquent installments and assessments.

If, on the first day of January in any year, one installment of any local improvement assessment is delinquent, or if the final installment thereof has been delinquent for more than one year, the city may proceed with foreclosure on the delinquent assessment or delinquent installments by an appropriate action on behalf of the city in Franklin County Superior Court. The foreclosure proceedings shall be in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 32.50 of the Revised Code of Washington, as it now exists or as it may hereafter be amended, and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such foreclosure proceedings may be commenced on or before the thirty-first day of December of that year. (Ord. 566 § 1 (part), 1990).

3.12.030 Acceleration of installments and attorney fees.

In any action brought for the foreclosure of a delinquent assessment or installment, future installments not otherwise due and payable shall thereupon be accelerated and the entire balance of the assessment, with interest, penalties and costs shall become due and payable, and the collection thereof shall be enforced by foreclosure as set forth in this chapter; provided, however, that in the event of such foreclosure, there shall be added to the costs and expenses as provided by Chapter 32.50, Revised Code of Washington, such reasonable attorney fees as the court may adjudge to be equitable, and the amount thereof apportioned to each delinquent assessment or installment appearing on the assessment rolls. (Ord. 566 § 1 (part), 1990).