[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Russell Gardens 10-14-1974 as L.L. No. 1-1974. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
There is hereby imposed upon the owner of any apartment house
in the Village of Russell Gardens the annual or other charge required
to be paid by the village to the State of New York, Division of Housing
and Community Renewal, in administering the provisions of the Emergency
Tenant Protection Act of 1974, all with the same full force and effect
as if said charge were imposed, in the first instance, upon said apartment
house owners or any of them.
Any statement, bill or other demand for payment directed to
the village by the Division of Housing and Community Renewal or such
other body authorized to effect collection of such administration
charges shall be prima facie evidence of the amount due from the apartment
house owners.
Each apartment house owner, his personal representative, successors
and assigns, shall make such payment upon demand therefor by the village.
The village may avail itself of all remedies provided by law
to effect the collection of such charges from the apartment house
owners.
[Added 12-4-1990 by L.L. No. 3-1990]
If any owner of an apartment house in the village fails to pay
any annual or other charges required to be paid to the village pursuant
to this chapter within 30 days of the notification from the village
that the charge is due and owing, the charge shall automatically become
a lien against the apartment house and the real property upon which
it is located and shall bear interest at the highest rate permitted
by law, calculated from the date that said charge became due and owing
to the village. The Village Clerk, without further notification to
the owner of the apartment house, shall make a notation of the lien
in a docket maintained for that purpose and shall also make a notation
of the existence of the lien in all village files relating to the
apartment house and the property upon which it is located.
