If on the first day of January in any year two installments of any local improvement assessment are delinquent, or if the final installment thereof has been delinquent for more than one year, the city attorney is authorized and directed to proceed with the foreclosure of the delinquent assessment or delinquent installments by an action on behalf of the city in the superior court for King County. Such action shall be commenced on or before June 1st of that year; provided, that the provisions of BMC 3.04.060 have been previously complied with. (Ord. 532 § 1, 1968).