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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 10-8 Collections.">
  <section prefix="§" num="10-8" heading="Collections.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Director of Finance to collect.">Once made, the Director of Transportation must report the assessments to the Director of Finance, who must proceed to collect them in the same manner that real estate taxes are collected.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="When payable; election to defer.">
      <para num="(1)">All assessments are due as soon as reported to the Director of Finance.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Assessments may be paid:<para num="(i)">pursuant to an election to be made before the interest date, in deferred payments as provided in § 10-7 of this subtitle; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">in full, without interest, at any time prior to 30 days after the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; of the month succeeding the date of the report to the Director of Finance.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)">All assessments bear interest from the date due until paid in full, unless:<para num="(i)">the assessment is paid on time; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the assessment is pending appeal.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Appeal of assessment.">A property owner may appeal an assessment:<para num="(1)">to the director of transportation within 10 days of receipt of a Notice of Assessment from the director of finance; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">to the board of municipal and zoning appeals within 30 days of the Mailing of a notice of assessment, in accordance with §10-9 of this Subtitle.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Assessment as lien.">The assessments are liens on the property from the date the work is completed, subject, as to any party who has appealed, to the final decision on appeal.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Remedies.">
      <para num="(1)">The Director of Finance:<para num="(i)">has the same remedies for the collection of assessments, interest, and penalties as those provided by law for the collection of ordinary taxes on real estate; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">may use these remedies on default of any 1 annual payment.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">A default causes all of the amount assessed and yet unpaid to be due and payable.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 45, §70(4th, 7th sens.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 35, §30(4th, 7th sens.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 26, §25(4th, 7th sens.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 26, §29(4th, 7th sens.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-573</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 48-319</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 56-644</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 76-139</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 89-290</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 00-101</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-332</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">Article 26, § 10-9</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
    <annotation type="History" />
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
