2454 ORD DECLARING NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN STREET AND PORTIONS THEREOF IN COP

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When the improvements herein ordered for the street designated above and portions thereof have been completed and accepted by the City of Paris, 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 (5) years from the date of acceptance by the City, together with interest on each installment from said date of acceptance until paid at the rate of six per cent (6%) 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 payment. 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 incurred, shall be and become immediately due and payable. Section 6. The City Manager of the City of Paris is hereby authorized to secure and obtain any security lien, or document de- snr.ed, in addition to the paving assessments and certificates au- thorized by law to secure the payment of the respective property owner's part of the costs of improvements, and if he shall be unable to obtain reasonable satisfactory security as to any abutting property or owner, the whole city block to which the frontage of any such property or properties belong may be by him deleted from the construction contract and the lien upon the properties abutting any such city block and portion of said construction pro- ject fixed by the filing of notice of the enactment of this ordi- nance will be released. Section 7. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause to be prepared a notice of enactment of this ordinance and to file said notice with the County Clerk of Lamar County, Texas, among the Mortgage or Deed of Trust Records of said County. Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Paris, in special session convened, on this the 18th day of June, 1979. e: 5 0. eE. Ma one, Mayor ATTEST: H. C. Gre ne, ity lerk APP V D A TO ORM: / T. K. aynes, City Attorney