2583 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON A CERTAIN STREET AND HIGHWAY IN COP

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Section 5. The assessments levied in Section 4, above are for a portion of the costs of said improvements in the street and highway and units therein set out, which are included in said ordinance enacted on October 22, 1979, and the assessments for the improvements in said units are in no wise related to or connected with the improvements or assessments in any other street, highway or unit described in said ordinance, if any; and in levying said assessments the amounts so assessed for the improvements in said units have been in no wise affected by any fact or thing in any way connected with th e improvements or by the assessments therefor in any other of said units. The onunission of the improvements in any of said streets, highways or units as a whole shall in no wise affect or impair the validity of the assessments in any other of said units and the omission of the improvement in any particular street, highway or unit in front of any parcel of property exempt from the lien fo such assessments, or against which a valid property assessment cannot be levied, shall in no wise affect or impair the validity of the assess- ments against the other properties in such unit. Section 6. The costs of said improvements shall be paid as follows, to-wit: (a) The costs of the curb and gutter, in the approximate amount of $7.70 per front foot, assessed on a front foot basis, shall be assessed against the respective abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof in accordance with the statutes of Texas and the Charter of the City of Paris herein referred to. No assessment shall be made against any abutting property or the real and true owner thereof for costs in ex- cess of the benefits to such property in enchance value thereof by means of such improvement. The amounts of such assessments shall constitute a first and prior lien upon all such properties and a personal liability of the real and true owners thereof, whether correctly named or not, and shall be payable in install- ments as follows: When the improvements herein ordered for the street and highway designated above and portions thereof have been completed and accepted by the City of Paris and the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, the amount of the assessment against each property abutting thereon and the real and true owner thereof shall be and become payable in five (5) equal annual principal installments, due respectively thirty (30) days after one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (S) years from the date of acceptance by the City of Paris and the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, together with interest on each installment from said date of acceptance until paid at the rate of six per cent (6Q/o) per annum, payable annually; provided, however, that the owners of any of said property shall have the privilege of paying all or any of said installments at any time before maturity thereof by paying the total amount of the principal of such installment, together with the interest accrued thereon to the date of pay- ment. Further, if default be made in the payment of any of said installments of principal or interest promptly as the same mature, then at the option of the City of Paris, the entire amount of the assessment upon which default is made, together with reasonable attorney's fees and all collection costs in- curred, shall be and become immediately due and payable. (b) That all of the remaining costs of the improvements to said street and highway shall be paid by the City of Paris and the State of Texas in accordance with an agreement made the