§ 34-737. Assessments against private property of the cost of reopening, repairing, or cleaning of street and roads necessitated by construction activity; creation and enforcement of lien.

(a)

The governing authority is empowered to assess against any property the cost of reopening or repairing any public way, street, road, right-of-way, or highway, or the cost of cleaning up from any public way, street, road, right-of-way, or highway any debris, dirt, sediment, soil, trash, building material, and other physical materials originating on such property, as a result of any private construction activity carried on by any developer, contractor, subcontractor, or owner of such property.

(b)

Any assessment authorized under subsection (a) of this section, as well as the interest thereon and the expense of collection, shall be a lien against the property so assessed coequal with the lien of other taxes and shall be enforced in the same manner as are state and county ad valorem property taxes by issuance of a fi. Fa. and levy sale as set forth in Title 48, the "Georgia Public Revenue Code."

(Ord. No. 98-0379, 3-4-98)

State law reference

O.C.G.A. § 36-1-18; Ga. L. 1981, p. 3259, §§ 1, 2)