§ 18-72. Priority of lien.

All assessments for any improvements made under the provisions of this article shall constitute liens upon the property assessed from the date of the recording of the final assessment roll and shall be of the same nature and to the same extent as liens for general county taxes. No sale of any property for general county taxes or for an installment or installments of any such assessment and no perfecting of title under any such sale shall divest the lien of any installment of such assessment not due at the time of the sale. Collection of such assessments with such interest and penalties, costs and attorneys' fees, may be made by the county or lending institution by proceedings in a court of equity to foreclose the lien of the assessment as a lien for mortgages is, or may be foreclosed under the laws of the state. It shall be lawful to join in any bill for foreclosure any one (1) or more lots or parcels of land, by whomsoever owned, if assessed for the same improvement; provided that failure to pay any installment of principal or interest on any assessment within thirty (30) days of the date when such installment shall become due shall without notice or other proceedings, cause all installments of principal remaining unpaid to be forthwith due and payable with interest due thereon at date of default and further interest as herein provided; but if before the sale of the property for delinquent assessments, the amount of such delinquency shall be paid with all penalties, interest costs and attorneys' fees, further installments of the principal shall cease to become so due and payable, and shall be due and payable at the times at which the same would be due if no such default had occurred.

(Ord. No. 2015-52, § 2, 12-15-15; Ord. No. 2017-47, § 3, 10-10-17)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 2017-47, § 3, adopted October 10, 2017, renumbered § 18-70 as § 18-72 and amended it to read as set out herein.