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6/28/2021 Indian River County, FL Code of Ordinances (1) If the county abates a nuisance as defined in section 973.03, the cost thereof to the county as to each lot, parcel or tract of land shall be calculated and reported to the code enforcement board. Thereupon, the.code enforcement board, shall issue an order to assess such costs against such lot, parcel tract of land, common space, open space, recreation tract, or landscape buffer. Such order shall describe the land and state the cost of abatement, which shall include an administrative cost of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) per abatement. Such assessment shall be a legal, valid and binding obligation upon the property against which made until paid. The assessment shall be due and payable forty-five (45) days after the mailing of notice of assessment after which interest shall accrue at the rate prescribed on any unpaid portion thereof. (2) The clerk shall mail a notice to the record owner or owners of each of said parcels of land described in the resolution, at the last available address for such owner or owners, which notice may be in substantially the following form: NOTICE Date: To: Address: Property: As the record owner of the property above described -you are hereby advised that Indian River County, Florida did on the day of 20 _, order the abatement of a certain nuisance existing on the above property, sending you notice thereof, sdch nuisance being: [Describe Nuisance Briefly] A copy of such notice has been heretofore sent you. You failed to abate such nuisance; whereupon, it was abated by Indian River County at a cost of $ . Such cost, by order of the Code Enforcement Board of Indian River County, Florida has been assessed against the above property on 20 and shall become a lien on the property forty-five (45) days after such assessment. You may request a hearing before the Code Enforcement Board to show cause, if any, why the expenses and charges Incurred by the County under this ordinance are excessive or unwarranted or why such expenses should not be charged against the property. Said request for hearing shall be made to the Clerk of the Code Enforcement Board in writing within thirty (30) days from the date of the assessment. (3) If the owner fails to pay assessed costs within forty-five (45) days, a certified copy of the assessment shall be recorded in the official record books of the county. The assessment shall constitute a lien against the property No assessment lien will be recorded if a hearing on whether the assessment is fair, reasonable and warranted is timely requested. (4) If the code enforcement board determines after hearing that the assessment is fair, reasonable, and warranted, a certified copy of the assessment order shall be recorded. If the board determines that the charges are excessive or unwarranted, it shall direct the county administrator to recompute tl�ejtarges Ors