A. The superintendent shall, within twenty days from the date of delinquency, prepare a list of the assessments on which any installment is delinquent. The list shall contain a description of each parcel of property, and opposite each description the name of the owner as stated in the assessment, or, if no name is stated in the assessment, the word "unknown", and the amount of the installment delinquent, together with the penalty and costs due, including the cost of advertising.

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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 48-939

  • Delinquency: means delinquency in the payment of an assessment. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Lot: includes any portion, piece, parcel or subdivision of land, but not property owned or controlled by any person as a railroad right of way. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Owner: means the person in whom legal title appears by recorded deed, or the person in possession under claim or title, or the person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the personal representative of the owner, including the boards of trustees of school districts and the boards of education of high school districts owning property within the proposed improvement district. See Arizona Laws 48-901
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • superintendent: means a county employee designated by the board of supervisors to perform the duties of street superintendent for all the districts organized under this article in any county. See Arizona Laws 48-901

B. The superintendent shall give a notice that unless each delinquent installment, together with the penalty and costs thereon, is paid, the whole amount of the assessment will be declared due, and the property upon which the assessment is a lien will be sold at public auction at a time and place to be specified in the notice. At least ten days before the date set for the sale the notice shall be mailed to the owner of the lot or parcel on which an installment is delinquent at the address shown on the most recent property tax roll.

C. The time of the sale shall not be less than ten days after the completion of the mailing of the notices, and the place of sale shall be in or in front of the office of the superintendent, in or in front of the usual place of meeting of the board of directors of the district or at the place otherwise designated in the notice.