§ 2-2-56. Date of lien; collection; foreclosures; payment of liens prior to sale.

All such assessments for any such special improvements made under the provisions of this article shall constitute liens upon the property especially improved and assessed from the date of filing in the public records of the county of the resolution adopted by the board of county commissioners imposing special improvement assessment liens. Said liens shall be superior to any other liens or encumbrances, recorded or unrecorded, against the property especially improved, save and except the liens for general county taxes for the year in which said lien was imposed or any prior year. Collection of such special improvement assessment liens shall be made by foreclosure suit in a court of competent jurisdiction, and it shall be lawful to join in any such suit for foreclosure one or more lots or parcels of land, by whosoever owned, upon which such liens are delinquent, if assessed for special improvements made under the provisions of this article; provided that failure to pay any installment of principal or interest of any assessment lien when such installments shall become due shall without notice or other proceedings cause all installments of principal remaining unpaid to be forthwith due and payable with interest due thereon at date of default. In any suit for foreclosure, the plaintiff shall be entitled to suit costs and reasonable attorneys fees.

(Laws of Fla., Ch. 63-1582, § 7; Laws of Fla., Ch. 69-1280, § 1)