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method is described in Exhibit A, attached hereto. Section 10. That the amount of assessment for each property under this ordinance shall be and is hereby set out in Exhibit A, attached hereto and for all purposes incorporated herein, and said amount is hereby declared and ordered to be assessed against the individual properties and property owners described in Exhibit A hereto. Section 11. That the aforesaid assessment shall be due and payable in eighty-four (84) equal monthly payments due and payable as an additional charge to the water bill of each property served under the project, or individually billed by separate monthly statement at the City's choice, provided no monthly payment for said assessment shall be less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and provided further that if said payments shall be made on a timely basis, then no interest shall be assessed thereon. Section 12. That in order for such payment of said assessment to be timely made payment must be made in accordance with the requirements for timely payment of the accompanying water bill (or in the case of a prior disconnection of the water service thereto or otherwise at the City's choice, payment of a regular monthly statement forwarded to the property owner on the same basis as a monthly water bill), and in the event of a failure to make timely payment, then the City may assess interest in an amount not to exceed 10% per annum against any payment in arrears beginning ten (10) days after the payment is due. Such penalty and interest to be payable in addition to any and all other remedies under state law which the City may invoke as the result of non-payment of the aforesaid assessment. Section 13. That, in addition to imposing penalties and interest as provided herein, in the event that assessments are not timely paid, the City may pursue foreclosure of any lien claimed or filed against the property as provided herein or pursuant to state law; may pursue as a personal liability against the owner of said property at the time the assessment is made the cost of recovery of said assessment, by bringing an action in a court having lawful jurisdiction over such matters; may pursue sale of the assessed property in the manner provided by state law or the City Charter in the same manner as the City may sell property for municipal property taxes; or the City may refuse to connect or may disconnect water or sewer service to a parcel of benefitted property during the period in which there is a default in the payment of the amount assessed; or the City may refuse water or sewer service to the owner of such property until the owner pays the City the assessment made against the property. All assessments hereunder are collectable with interest, cost of collection, and reasonable attorneys fees. Section 14. That the City Council does hereby authorize at the City Manager's discretion the issuance in the name of the City of assignable certificates as evidence of the assessments levied hereunder, thereby declaring a lien on the property and the personal liability of the owners, whether named correctly or not, against whose property such assessment is made. The terms and conditions of the certificates hereby authorized shall be the same as those terms and conditions set out herein for payment of the assessment. Any certificates so issued shall substantially state that the required proceeding relating to the project and the improvements referred to in the certificate has been held in compliance with state law and all prerequisites to the fixing of an assessment lien against the -5-