A. Every person owning, operating, leasing, occupying or renting a building or structure within an underground utility district established pursuant to Section 13.12.040 shall perform construction to provide that portion of the service connection on his or her property between the facilities referred to in Section 13.12.130 and the termination facility on or within the building or structure being served, all in accordance with applicable rules, regulations and tariffs of the respective utility or utilities on file with the California Public Utility Commission. If the above is not accomplished within the time provided for in the ordinance enacted pursuant to Section 13.12.030, the city clerk shall give notice, in writing to the owner thereof, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll, and to all subscribers to utility service as such are shown on the list of subscribers furnished by the utility companies, to provide the required underground facilities within thirty days after receipt of such notice.

B. The notice to provide the required underground utilities may be given by personal service or by mail. In case of service by mail on either of such persons, the notice must be deposited in the United States mail in a sealed envelope with postage prepaid, addressed to the person in possession of such premises at such premises, and the notice must be addressed to the owner and subscriber thereof as such name appears, and must be addressed to such owner’s or subscriber’s last known address as the same appears on the last equalized assessment roll and/or subscriber’s list, and when no address appears, to General Delivery, City of San Luis Obispo. If notice is given by mail, such notice shall be deemed to have been received by the person to whom it has been sent within forty-eight hours after the mailing thereof. If notice is given by mail to either the owner or occupant of such premises’ the city clerk shall, within forty-eight hours after the mailing thereof, cause a copy thereof, printed on a card not less than eight inches by ten inches in size, to be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises.

C. The notice given by the city clerk to provide the required underground facilities shall particularly specify what work is required to be done, and shall state that if the work is not completed within thirty days after receipt of such notice, the city will install such required underground facilities, in which case the cost and expense thereof will be assessed against the property benefited and become a lien upon such property.

D. If upon the expiration of the thirty-day period, the required underground facilities have not been provided, the city clerk shall proceed to have the work done; provided, however, if such premises are unoccupied and no electric or communications services are being furnished thereto, the city clerk shall, in lieu of providing the required underground facilities, have the authority to order the disconnection and removal of any and all overhead service wires and associated facilities supplying utility service to the property.

Upon completion of the work, the city clerk shall file a written report with the council setting forth the fact that the required underground facilities have been provided and the cost thereof, together with a legal description of the property against which such cost is to be assessed. The council shall thereupon fix a time and place for hearing protests against the assessment of the cost of such work upon such premises, which time shall not be less than ten days thereafter.

E. The city clerk shall, upon the time for hearing such protests having been fixed, give a notice in writing to the person in possession of such premises, to the utility subscriber, and to the owner thereof, in the manner set forth in this section for the giving of the notice, to provide the required underground facilities, of the time and place that the council will pass upon such report and will hear protests against such assessment. Such notice shall set forth the amount of the proposed assessment.

F. Upon the date and hour set for the hearing of protests, the council shall hear and consider the report and all protests, if there be any, and then proceed to affirm, modify or reject the assessment.

G. If any assessment is not paid within five days after its confirmation by the council, the amount of the assessment shall become a lien upon the property against which the assessment is made by the city clerk, and the city clerk is directed to turn over to the assessor and tax collector a notice of lien on each of the properties on which the assessment has not been paid, and the assessor and tax collector shall add the amount of the assessment to the next regular bill for taxes levied against the premises upon which the assessment was not paid. The assessment shall be due and payable at the time as the property taxes are due and payable, and if not paid when due and payable, shall bear interest at the rate of eight percent per year. (Prior code § 8400.8)