§ 94-51. Legal proceedings upon failure to pay assessment or interest when due.

Each billing for services provided for in section 94-50 shall be paid upon the date specified, with any interest upon delinquent payments, and enforcement of such payment shall be in the same manner as the enforcement of liens upon real property. Upon the failure of any property owner to pay any assessment, the board of county commissioners may cause a lien to be filed on the property for all delinquent assessments, plus interest and administrative costs thereon. If deemed necessary, the board of county commissioners may cause to be brought the necessary legal proceedings by a bill in chancery to enforce payment thereof with all accrued interest and penalties, together with all legal costs incurred, including a reasonable attorney's fee, to be assessed as part of the cost. In the foreclosure of any special assessment, service of process against unknown or nonresident defendants may be had as provided by law in other chancery suits. The foreclosure proceedings shall be prosecuted by sale and conveyance of the property involved in the proceedings is provided by law in suits to foreclose mortgages. Nothing in this section shall preclude the board of county commissioners from engaging the services of a collection agency for assistance in collecting any delinquent assessments.

(Code 1970, § 20-77; Ord. No. 82-08, § 6, 3-16-82; Ord. No. 85-22, § 1, 12-10-85)