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Section 23-30. Abatement by city. If an owner or occupant fails, refuses or neglects to comply with a notice given pursuant to this article, or if notice is not required as provided in section 23-27(d), the director shall cause the nuisance to be abated and shall transmit to the city treasurer a statement of all costs incurred thereby, including in such costs a seventy-five dollar fee or charge to cover the administrative expense incurred, all of which shall be added to the taxes assessed against the real estate on which the nuisance existed or abutting the alley, sidewalk or street on which the nuisance existed, for the ensuing tax year and shall be collected with such taxes by any manner prescribed by law for the collection of city taxes. All such costs shall be docketed as a lien against the real estate in the manner prescribed by section 23-5, which lien shall remain in effect until removed by payment of such costs in full, and which lien shall rank on a parity with liens for unpaid local taxes. 4. That Section 23-48(a) and (b) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1988, be amended to read as follows: Section 23-48. Notice to remove. (a) If the director finds any inoperative motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer kept or stored in violation of Section 23-46, he shall make diligent search and inquiry to determine the record owner of the land, and lien holder of the land, upon which the vehicle is located and shall notify such owner, and lien holder, in writing by mail directed to their last known mailing address~ that he has found such violation and the nature thereof. The notice shall require such owner to cause the vehicle to be removed from the property forthwith and taken to an authorized place of storage. The mailing of such notice shall be proof thereof and the delivery of notice equivalent to mailing. (b) If the mailing address of the owner, and lien holder, of the land upon which the vehicle is located is not known, and the land is unoccupied and the owner, and lien holder, have no agent in the City, such notice shall be posted upon such land as notice to the owner, and lien holder thereof. 5. That Section 23-50(b) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1988, be amended to read as follows: Section 23-50. Removal by city. (b) Ail costs incurred under this section shall be docketed as a lien against the property on which the nuisance occurred in the manner prescribed in Section 23-5, and shall rank on a parity with liens for unpaid local taxes, which lien shall remain in effect until removed by payment in full of such