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TUESDAY AUGUST 24, 1982 premises free from any trash, garbage, litter, or junk, and to keep any rusted, wrecked, inoperative, or dilapidated furniture, appliance, equipment, machinery, or material screened or hidden from the view of any adjacent property and from the view of any person using a public street or sidewalk adjacent to such premises. b. Should the owner of any property fail or refuse to abide by this requirement, then the Director of Public Works shall give a written notice to such owner requiring the owner to clean up or remove such trash, garbage, litter, or junk or to completely screen such derelict items from public view within fifteen (15) days after the date of the notice. c. Such notice shall be given to the owner by personally serving a copy of such notice on the owner or his agent or by mailing a copy to the owner at his last known post office address by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or, if the owner or his address be unknown, by publication of such notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the city once per week for two successive weeks. A copy of such notice sent to the owner by registered or cer- tified mail at the address of such owner listed on the land books of the city shall be deemed sufficient and equivalent to notice having been received by the owner, regardless of whether such copy be returned undelivered or not. - d. Upon the failure or refusal of the owner, after serving of the notice, to clean up or remove such trash, gar- bage, litter, or junk or to completely screen such derelict items from public view within the time provided, the Director of Public Works may have the trash, garbage, litter, junk, or derelict items cleaned up or removed by city employees or city agents under contract. All of the actual costs and expenses of such work, plus the cost of serving the notice, shall be chargeable to and paid by the owner of the property. Any bill sent to the owner which is not paid within thirty (30) days shall be trans- mitted to the City Treasurer, who shall include such bill in the next regular real estate tax bill sent to the owner. Every such charge with which the owner has been assessed and which remains unpaid after the deadline for the pay- ment of the next installment of real estate taxes shall con- stitute a lien against such property, provided, however, that such lien shall be recorded in the same manner as liens for real estate taxes are recorded. It shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to assure the proper recording of any such lien.