§ 16-5. Costs.

(a)

Property owner, occupant or other person causing nuisance liable. The owner of premises on which a nuisance has been abated by the city, and in addition, any other person causing or creating such nuisance, shall be personally liable to the city for the cost of abatement, including administrative costs. As soon as the abatement work has been completed and the cost determined, the city clerk shall prepare a bill for the cost and mail it to the owner, occupant, and any other person causing or creating such nuisance. Thereupon, the amount shall be immediately due and payable at the office of the city clerk.

(b)

Assessment. To the degree that the nuisance abated is a public health or safety hazard on private property, or the accumulation of snow, ice, or rubbish on public sidewalks, or the growth of weeds on private property or streets, or the care, trimming, or removing of trees, the clerk shall, on or before October 15 next following abatement of the nuisance, list the total unpaid abatement charges, along with all other unpaid charges for current services to be assessed under law against each separate lot or parcel to which the charges are attributable. The city council may then assess and spread the charges against such property under that statute and any other pertinent statute for certification to the county auditor for collection along with current taxes the following year or in annual installments, not exceeding ten, as the city council may determine in each case.

(Code 1999, § 8.4.5)

State law reference

Collection of unpaid charges as special assessment, Minn. Stat. § 429.101.