Los Angeles Municipal Code

Sec. 6.503. Application for Assessment.

days after the property was more than 75 days overdue. Said application may be for assessments to more than one property. When received, the City Clerk shall forward the applications for assessment to the City Engineer. The City Engineer shall advise the City Council of the making of an application. (f) The City Engineer shall cause the application to be noted on the records utilized in preparing the City Engineer’s report for the Report of Residential Property Records and Pending and Recorded Liens issued pursuant to Division D of Chapter 9 of Article 6 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, commencing with Section 96.300 . (g) The City Engineer shall process said application for assessment received as follows: (1) Estimate the total amount of proposed assessment for the department making the applications, including all of the items listed in Subsection (b)(2) of this section and including any estimated costs to the City in giving notice, holding hearings, and collecting and distributing the assessment when it is paid. (2) Prepare an Assessment Roll listing: (i) Each property to be assessed by address and by legal description; (ii) The name of the owner or owners and the addresses as shown on the last Equalized Assessment Roll, and the names and the addresses of the persons last billed for the utility service, as such names and addresses have been furnished by the department making the application for assessment; and (iii) The amount of each proposed assessment and the department and utility service for which it is proposed to be levied. (h) At the request of the City Engineer, the City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to prepare a draft of an ordinance declaring the Council’s intention to levy assessments pursuant to this chapter and to forward the draft of ordinance to the City Engineer for transmittal with the assessment roll to the City Council. (i) If the City Council in its sole discretion determines to do so, the Council may adopt the ordinance and declare its intention to levy assessments for past due billings for essential utility services and future billings for essential utility services and setting a time, date and place of hearing.