3.28.370 Sale to city—Removal or destruction of improvements prohibited—Right of city to rents, issues and profits.
A. When lands have been sold, or shall hereafter be sold to the city by reason of nonpayment of taxes, and/or public improvement assessments, no owner or claimant of such land, nor any other person, shall remove or destroy any building, fixture or other improvement on such lands, or cut or remove any trees, or do or cause to be done any other act which shall tend permanently to impair the value of the lands or the value of the improvements thereon; provided, this provision shall not apply when such lands have been redeemed from sale or have been sold and disposed of by the city. Violation of any of the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor.
B.
1. From and after the date of recording of the deed to the city, as provided in Section 3.29.390, the city shall be entitled to receive and collect all rents, issues and profits arising in any manner from the property so conveyed, provided such property is not subject to administration, and is not being administered by any other taxing agency or State Controller.
2. The city manager shall demand from the former owner of said property not subject to administration and not being administered by another taxing agency or the State Controller, or any person having any interest therein, or any person in the possession, actual or constructive, of said property, or of any part thereof, actual or constructive, of said property, or any part thereof, an accounting of said rents, issues and profits and may at any time after recording of the deed to the city as provided in Section 3.28.390, demand and receive possession of said property, and such possession shall be surrendered to any person designated by the city manager, authority for such designation being granted by this section.
3. For the enforcement of the provisions of this section, the city manager is authorized to commence and maintain an action or actions on behalf of said city.
4. All moneys recovered under the provisions of this section shall be paid into the city treasury to the credit of the general fund and shall not be considered as a credit on the amount necessary to be paid in redemption of the property from the sale to the city. (Prior code § 6.04.740)