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Ordinance No. NS-1287 Page Five (3) reasonable attorney's fees arising out of the preparation for, and trial of the cause, and appeals therefrom. (4) printing costs of trial and appellate briefs, and all other papers filed in such proceedings. Such cost of abatement is hereby made a special assessment against the parcel of land upon which such nuisance is maintained. Upon its determination in a civil action under Civil Code ~3494 and Code of Civil Procedure ~ 731, such shall, by special ordinance, be made a lien against such property and a personal obligation against the theatre operator and property owner and shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected, and shall be subject to the same penalties and the same procedure and sale in the case of delinquency as provided for ordinary municipal taxes. All laws, applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of municipal taxes, shall be applicable to such special assessment. SECTION 6: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code, is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 12-105, which said section reads as follows: Sec. 12-105. Action to be Taken by City Attorney. Upon a specific finding by Resolution of the City Council of the fact that a public nuisance exists at a particular location, the City Attorney shall: (A) Not later than ten days after passage of said resolution, commence legal proceedings under Civil Code ~ 3491 and 3494 and Code of Civil Procedure §731, by the filing of a civil action seeking the following relief: (1) A Declaratory Judgment that the motion picture or pictures named by the City Council are lewd films. (2) A Declaratory Judgment that the films found to be lewd are public nuisances under this ordinace and such Resolution. (3) A Declaratory Judgment that the place named by the City Council where the film or films are being exhibited is a public nuisance under this ordinance and such Resolution. (4) An accounting of all moneys paid as admis- sion price to the operators of the theatre from and after the time the persons maintaining said nuisance receive notice of the finding by the City Council that the public nuisance exists, and a Declaratory Judgment that such moneys are a public nuisance under this ordinance. (5) An Order that all admission price moneys derived from the showing of the named lewd film or films and enumerated in the Court ordered accounting be forfeited to the general fund of the City of Santa Ana as contraband.