1942 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON CERTAIN STREET IN COP

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SDCTION 5. The assessments levied in Section 4, above, are for a portion of the costs of said improvements in the street and units therein set out, which are included in said ordinance en- acted on June 9, 1969, 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 streets or units de- scribed in said ordinance, if any; and in levying said assess- ments the amounts so assessed for the improvements in said units have been in no wise affected by anyfact or thing in any way connected with the improvements or by the assessments therefor in any other of said units. The omission of the improvements in any of said streets 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 or unit in front of any parcel of property exempt from the lien of such assessments, or against which a valid property assessment cannot be levied, shall in no wise affect or imp air the validity of the assessments against the other properties in such unit. SDCTION 6. The costs of said improvements shall be paid as follows, to-wit: (a) The City shall pay all ofthe costs of drainage installa- tions, wherever located, if any, all the costs of excava- tion, base preparation and paving within street inter- sections, and not less than one-third of the costs of excavation, base preparation and paving all other portions of the street involved. In cases where the City Council may deem it just and proper, the City shall also pay all or any part of the amount of any credited adjustment which may be allowed in the assessment of abutting pro- perties and the owner thereof, as herein provided, for the cost of excavation, base preparation and paving. The remaining costs of all such improvements shall be paid by the property abutting such portion of said street and the owners thereof. (b) The remainder of the costs of such improvements shall be assessed against the respective abutting properties and the real and true aoiers thereof in accordance with the statutes of Texas and the Charter of the City of Paris herein referred to. No assessments shall be made against any abutting property or the real and true owner thereof for costs in excess of the benefits to such property in enhanced value thereof by means of such improvements. 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 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 install ments, 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 o.f six per cent (6%) per annum, payable annually; provided,