§ 20-3-210. ADDITIONAL MEANS OF COLLECTION.  


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  • In addition to but not in substitution of the aforesaid remedies, whenever the county may deem it necessary and advisable it is empowered by written order to authorize and direct the Director of Budget and Finance to proceed in the Director's own name as such to enforce the lien of metropolitan district assessments and charges on any particular property specified in such order by a bill in equity or to collect such assessments and charges by an action of assumpsit or by both a bill in equity and a suit at law as aforesaid. In the event any such annual assessment or charge be not paid when due, interest thereon, beginning on October 1 of the following October, shall be added at the rate provided from time to time in § 11-2-303 of the code. The fiscal year of the metropolitan district shall correspond with the fiscal year of the county, and on or prior to July 1 in each and every year, the county shall deliver to the Director of Budget and Finance a statement showing the metropolitan district assessments and charges due and payable, including such as may be in arrears, identifying, with respect to each of such assessments and charges, the properties on which the same are liens. Such statement shall be made by appropriate notation on the assessment or tax ledgers of the county and on the tax rolls customarily delivered to the Director of Budget and Finance or in such other appropriate manner, as the county may determine.

(1988 Code, § 35-219) (Bill No. 49-96, § 21, 7-1-1996; Bill No. 30-03, § 1, 7-1-2004)