19.60.200 Removal and disposal – Costs – Liens.
(1) After 45 calendar days have passed since service of the notice of violation and abatement and if no appeal has been filed, or after 20 calendar days have passed since service of the order from the Hearing Examiner resulting in authority to remove, the Director may proceed with organizing the removal and disposal of the junk vehicle(s) thereof according to the provisions of RCW 46.55.240(3)(e) and (4), as now enacted or hereafter amended.
(2) Cost of removal may be assessed against the last registered owner of the junk vehicle if the identity of the owner can be determined, unless the owner, in the transfer of ownership of the vehicle, has complied with RCW 46.12.101, as now enacted or hereafter amended, or the costs may be assessed against the owner of the property where the junk vehicle public nuisance is located.
(3) The Director shall record a lien for abatement costs incurred by the County pursuant to a notice of violation and abatement under CCC 19.60.130, and all other related costs against the real property on which any of the work of abatement was performed, unless and to the extent that the landowner was not responsible in the order issued by the Hearing Examiner under CCC 19.60.170. The Director shall record such a lien within 90 calendar days from the date the work was completed or the nuisance abated, whichever is later.
(a) The lien for abatement costs shall run with the property, shall be subordinate to all previously existing special assessment liens imposed on the same property, and shall be superior to all other liens, except for State and County taxes, with which it shall be in parity, pursuant to RCW 36.32.120(10), as now enacted or hereafter amended, and shall accrue interest at six percent per annum from the date of recording the lien until paid in full;
(b) The lien for abatement costs shall contain a reference to the notice of violation and abatement and/or order of the Hearing Examiner, a description of the property to be charged with the lien, the owner of record, and the total amount of the lien.
(4) If any abatement costs remain unpaid after 90 calendar days have passed since the work was completed or the nuisance abated, whichever is later, the Director may forward the amounts due to a collection agency for collection.
(5) Within 30 calendar days of full payment of all abatement costs assessed against the landowner, the Director shall record a lien satisfaction with the Clallam County Auditor’s Office, or its successor agency. The satisfaction shall include a legal description of the property where the violation occurred.