Collection of unpaid fines, penalties and related costs.
Riverside Municipal Code § 1.17.090
in effect1.17.090 - Collection of unpaid fines, penalties and related costs.
A. Unpaid fines or penalties and their related costs, arising from administrative citations, administrative civil penalties actions or other administrative enforcement actions as provided by this Code shall be a debt to the City and subject to all remedies for debt collection as allowed by law. The City shall be entitled to interest from the date the order becomes final or 30 days after the first billing whichever date is later. Collection of such debts and interest is a municipal affair pursuant to the Riverside City Charter.
B. When a violation involves real property and the fines, penalties, and related costs are not paid within the prescribed time, the amount of those fines, penalties, and their related costs may be recorded as a lien upon and against the real property without further hearing, subject to notice of the lien as required by law.
C. The notice of lien shall be in this form:
NOTICE OF LIEN
Claim of the City of Riverside, California.
Pursuant to the authority vested by Section 1.17.090 of the Riverside Municipal Code, the amount of uncollected fines, penalties, and related costs may be recorded as a lien upon and against the real property where the violation of law occurred and which is the subject of the administrative enforcement action(s) resulting in the award, imposition, or assessment of a fine, penalty and all costs associated therewith.
On (date) an Administrative Hearing Officer conducted (as an evidentiary proceeding) an administrative hearing, pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Riverside Municipal Code. Following the presentation of evidence and the issuance of a ruling in the matter, the Administrative Hearing Officer upheld a fine or awarded, imposed, or assessed a monetary penalty in the amount of ___________ ___________ and assessed administrative costs in the amount of ___________ as set forth in the (type of administrative hearing order) issued on (date) . Whereby the City of Riverside does hereby claim a lien for these sums as yet unpaid in the amount of ___________, [and hereby provides notice that the monetary penalty continues to accrue at a daily amount of ___________], and this sum shall be a lien upon the parcel of real property identified herein until that principal sum, and the sum of any interest upon that principal as may be allowed by law and calculated at the then existing legal rate, has been paid in full and discharged of record.
The real property upon which this lien is claimed is that certain parcel of land, the structures thereon and any appurtenances connected thereto and located within the City of Riverside, County of Riverside, State of California, and particularly described as follows:
(Legal Description)
(Street address, if any)
(Assessor's Parcel Number)
Further, the City of Riverside gives NOTICE that this Notice of Lien shall not be deemed or construed to prohibit the City of Riverside from making additional claims and giving and recording one or more Notices of Lien thereon as may be required in those cases where the principal sum claimed, as a fine or penalty awarded, imposed, or assessed, is subject to a cumulative accrual at a fixed daily rate until the date the violations are corrected in full to the satisfaction of the City, or the legal maximum limit (cap) of that penalty has been reached, or the total amount of the lien has been paid in full.
DATED this ___________ day of ___________, (year) .
City Clerk of the City of Riverside, California.
(Ord. 7459 §§ 1, 2, 2019; Ord. 7229 § 3, 2013; Ord. 6963 § 2, 2007)
Source: City of Riverside, California, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ca/riverside/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_TIT1GEPR_CH1.17ADCOENRE_1.17.090COUNFIPERECOFetched: 11/1/2026