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division to be abated and shall transmit to the city treasurer a statement of all costs incurred thereby. Included in such costs shall be a seventy-five dollar fee to cover the administrative expense incurred. All such costs shall be added to the taxes assessed against the real estate on which the nuisance or condition in violation of this division existed or the real estate abutting the alley, sidewalk or street-on which the nuisance or condition in violation of this division existed, for the ensuing tax year and shall be collected with such ~axes by any manner prescribed by law for the collection of city taxes. All costs mncurred thereby shall be docketed as a lien against such real property, mn the nuisance abatement lien docket book maintained in the office of the city treasurer, which lien shall exist in the office of the city 5reasurer until removed by payment of such cosns in full. Sec. 16-35. Collection of bulk refuse generally. (a) Bulk refuse shall be picked up from residential dwellings at such time, and mn accordance with such procedures as may be established by the director of general servmces. Such items shall not be placed for collection as part of the regular collection process for garbage, trash or refuse. All bulk refuse including 5ree branches, tree limbs, parts of trees, bushes, shrubbery and cuttings, or clippings and the like, which cannom be placed in receptacles or refuse bags as required under Section 16-34(c) shall be stacked neatly at curbside in a pile no~ to exceed a total quantity of eight feem by eight feet by men feet. It shall be the responsibility of the owner or occupant of the premises involved to remove all bulk refuse, including uree trimmings, cuttmngs, shrubbery and the like that do non meet these specifications or those contained in Section 16-34(c) . Tree trunks, limbs and branches shall be cut into lengths of smx feet or less. (b) Tree and shrubbery branches, limbs and trimmings cu5 by landscape or uree service contractors will not be collected by the City. These items should be disposed of by the Eree contractor or person charging for cutting trees. If the tree con5ractor fails to remove the debris, the responsibility of disposal is the homeowner's or occupant's. (c) If the homeowner or occupant fails ~o comply with the provisions of subsection(a) or (b) for removal, the City will remove the items and charge the cost therefore to the homeowner or occupann aE a cost of sevenmy-five dollars per hour per crew plus s100.00 per ton or fraction thereof for debris removed by the City, plus a seven5y-five dcllar administrative charge.