Whenever, under any proceedings taken by the City of Tacoma for the condemnation of lands or property under the provisions of Chapter 153 of the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Washington for the year 1907,[1] the Clerk of the Superior Court in which such proceedings are had shall certify a copy of the assessment roll prepared by the Eminent Domain Commissioners and of the judgment confirming the same, together with the order of the court approving the accounts of the Eminent Domain Commissioners, to the Treasurer of said City. The Treasurer shall proceed with the collection of the assessments levied by said roll as in said Act provided.
(Ord. 4213 § 1, 1910-06-20)
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Note: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
If the assessments levied by said roll are paid without delinquency, the Treasurer shall, out of the special fund derived from said assessments and within five days after the last of such payments is made, pay to the Clerk of the Superior Court the amount of the judgment or judgments for damages and costs awarded to property owners for the lands or property taken or damaged, and take his receipt therefor.
(Ord. 4213 § 2, 1910-06-20)
Upon the conclusion of any sale of property for such assessments unpaid and delinquent, and within five days thereafter, the Treasurer shall pay to the Clerk of the Superior Court the amount of the said judgment or judgments and take his receipt therefor; provided, that if there be not in such special fund sufficient money collected from said assessments to pay such judgment or judgments in full, the Treasurer shall forthwith report to the City Council and the City Attorney the fact of such delinquency and the amount thereof, and await the passage of an ordinance providing for the advancement of the amount of such deficiency from the general fund of said City before making such payment to said clerk.
(Ord. 4213 § 3, 1910-06-20)
Upon receipt by the Treasurer of the assessment roll certified by the clerk of said court, together with a copy of the approved accounts of the Eminent Domain Commissioners, the proper officers shall issue warrants to said Eminent Domain Commissioners in the amount approved by the judge of said court, upon the special fund created to pay the awards and costs of such proceeding.
(Ord. 4213 § 4, 1910-06-20)
Whenever, in condemnation proceedings prosecuted by the City of Tacoma, compensation or damages, or both, are awarded to the owners thereof and to other persons interested in any real property taken or damaged, and an assessment upon property benefited is made to pay the whole or any part of the compensation or damages, or both, awarded in such proceedings, and any person or persons to whom such compensation or damages or both is made also owns real property which is assessed in the same proceeding to pay the compensation and damages awarded in said proceeding, such person or persons may offset pro tanto the amount of the compensation or damages, or both, awarded to such person or persons, against the assessment levied upon real property owned by such person or persons, in the manner herein provided.
(Ord. 3420 § 1, 1908-09-02)
Any person or persons wishing to offset an award of compensation or damages, or both, against any assessment, as provided in Section 10.12.070, shall receipt upon the execution docket of the court in which such award is made, and make satisfaction, on said execution docket, of the amount so sought to be made an offset; and shall procure from the Clerk of said Court and present to the City Treasurer a certificate under the seal of the Court specifying the amount of which satisfaction has been made on the execution docket, the date of such satisfaction, the number and a brief title of the proceeding, including the number of the ordinance under which said proceeding was prosecuted.
(Ord. 3420 § 2, 1908-09-02)
The City Treasurer, upon receipt by him of the certificate provided for in Section 10.12.080, shall be and he is hereby authorized and directed to cancel such assessment upon the assessment roll, to the amount specified in said certificate, making suitable notation thereof upon the assessment roll.
(Ord. 3420 § 3, 1908-09-02)