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Ordinance No. 99-23" Page 2 e borne instead by the delinquent properties and their owners who are responsible for causing such expenses. To effectuate this policy, the taxing unit hereby orders that such costs be charged against the delinquent properties and their owners as an additional penalty as provided in this section, and such charges are hereby made a part of the tax liens against the delinquent property to which each such costs is attributable. "(b) The taxing unit's designated attorney with whom the taxing unit has contracted pursuant to V.T.C.A., Tax Code ~ 6.30 shall assist, by suit or otherwise, in the collection of delinquent taxes owed to the jurisdiction, and, to recover such costs, the jurisdiction shall be entitled to and shall collect an additional penalty of 15 percent of the delinquent taxes, penalty and interest due on each delinquent property at the time of collection, before or after suit and/or foreclosure sale, and provided further that as to payment of taxes delinquent and owing from the most current year, the additional penalty as to that year shall be added as specified at the maximum of 15 percent commencing July 1 of the calendar year next succeeding the year for which taxes are due, provided further that the collector of said penalty shall deliver a notice of delinquency and of the penalty to the property owner at least 30 and not more than 60 days before July 1." Section 2. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section, sentence, phrase, or clause, of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this ordinance, and it is hereby declared to be the intention of this City Council to have passed each section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that any other section, sentence, phrase or clause, or part thereof, may be declared invalid.