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177 • ORDINANCE NO. 177 AK ORDI NANCE PROVIDING THE ASSESSMENT OF COST v. OF LOT CLEANING AND TRASH AND BRUSH REMOVAL AGAINST THE LANDS FROM WHICH SUCH TRASH OR BRUSH SHALL 3E CLEANED OR REMOVED AND PROVIDING ;. A METHOD FOR THE COLLECTION OF THE COST THEREOF. y � : BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA: SECTION 1. That pursuant to Chapter 2265 No. 751 (Senate Bill No. 364) of the laws of the State of Florida, wherein authority was granted to the Town of Edgewater to assess costs of lot cleaning and trash and brush removal against the lands from which such trash or brush shall be cleaned or removed and providing for the collection of these costs when this Ordinance is hereby enacted. SECTION 2. The Town Council of the Town of Edgewater, Florida, shall assess each year the cost of cleaning or removing trash or brush from any lot in the Town of Edgewater against such lot or land so cleaned or frog which such trash or brush shall have been removed. The amount of such assessment shall be reasonable and shall be based upon actual time spent by the employees of the Town of Edgewater in said work and in a rate of compensation not in excess of the prevailing real wage in said community in said work. SECTION 3 . Such work shall be under the supervision of either the Town Marshal, or the Town Street Supervisor, or other officer duly designated by the Town Council for such purpose. • It shall be the duty of such officer in charge of such work to keep an accurate per hour time book of the men engaged in such work and to file with the Town Clerk each week a report of such work together with the correct legal description, as the same appears in the Town Assessment Roll for that year of the lot or lands upon which such work shall have been done. The basis of such Payment shall be uniform in each year and the report of such officer shall be used by the Town Clerk in preparing the assessment to be entered as hereinafter pro- vided against each said lots or pieces of land. SECTION; 4. The Town Clerk of the Town of Edgewater shall keep a permanent record book in which he shall enter the name of the owner of the property upon which such work shall have been done, and the description of said Property as said name and descrip- tion appear on the assessment Rolls of said Town, and shall enter under said name a statement showing the work done on said property, and the amount charged thereafter, and the time consumed in the performance of such work as the same appear on the record required to be filed with him under Section 2 of this Ordinance. Annually each year, and before preparing the list of delin- quent taxes the Clerk shall extend on the Tax Roll of the Town of Edgewater in a column to be provided for that puroose under the heading "Lot Cleaning Assessment", and opposite the name and desc- ription of the property herein referred to, the amount of such assessment as the same shall have been computed by him. Annually each year it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk at the same time property is sold for delinquent taxes to sell in the same manner provided for delinquent tax sales, such lands upon which such lot cleaning assessments shall not have been Paid, and if the taxes assessed by said Town shall have been paid said Clerk shall issue a Tax Sale Certificate for the amount only of such lot cleaning assessment, but if the taxes shall not have been paid then said Clerk shall enter on the regular tax sale certificate in a separate item the amount of such lot cleaning assessment. Such tax sale certificate shall carry with it all of the attributes, rights, and privileges of the usual Town Tax Sale Certificate, and where separate lot cleaning certificate is issued the same shall be in a form similar to the usual tax sale certificate. S-CTICN 5. Prior to entry of such lot cleaning assessment on said Tax Roll, and within ten (10) days after the receipt of the Town Clerk of the Officer' s report of such lot cleaning the Town Clerk shall notify the -)i•:-ner of said property as the name appears on the Assessment Roll for that year, of the fact of such assess- . ment, which Notice shall advise such property owner that said property may be sold for non-payment of such assessment. Such Kotice shall be by Registered Mail, or may be delivered personally by the Town Marshal to such property owner, or if the address cf such property owner by not known then such Notice may be posted on the premises and a copy thereof posted at the Town all or such Place as shall he used by the Town Council of said Town for holding its regular meetings. Upon receipt of such notice and within thirty (30) days after mailing the same the owner of such Property shall have the right to appeal to the Town Council to revise or - adjust such assessments and the Council shall have the power to revise of adjust the same. f ti %sir- SECTION 6. Prior to entering upon any property for the pur- pose cf cleaning same, or removing therefrom trash, or brush by any employee of the Town of Edgewater the Town Council shall first determine whether the condition of such property constitutes a fire hazard, or a menace to the health and safety of the Public, and if said Council finds that the condition of said property does constitute such fire hazard, or menace, then it shall cause Not- ice in writing to be served upon such property owner, calling his or her at .ention to the condition of said premises and requiring that the same be cleaned within a Period of fifteen (l5) days from the date of the service of such Notice. The Notice herein provided for shall be served in the manner provided in the preceeding Section of this Ordinance. If said property owner shall fail to comply with said :c:ctice then the Town Council shall have the authority to order that said lot be cleaned, or said trash, or brush be removed therefrom. SECTION 7. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith be and. the same are hereby repealed. SECTION 8. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the :.ayor. The above ordinance was read in full and passed by the unanimous vote of the Town Council of the Town of Edgewater, Florida at a regular meeting on the 22nd day of March, A. D. 1950• Upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, the requirement of reading said ordinance upon second reading was waived and the ordinance was ordered put upon final passage. Passed by the unanimous vote of the Town Council of the Town of Edgewater, Florida at a regular meeting of said council held on the 22nd day of March, A. D. 1950, and approved as provided by law, the vote of said council on roll call being as follows: yor - Councilman Councilman Councilman i ATTEST: To Jerk ,7— App�ed !!Zd day of March, A. D. 1950. Mayor