1999 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON CERTAIN STREETS 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 streets and units therein set out, which are included in sai d ordinance en- acted on April 13, 1970, and the assessments for the improve- ments in said units are in no wise related to or connected with the improvements or assessments in any other streets or units described 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 any fact 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 orLm.its 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 parti- cular 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 impair the validity of the assessments against the other properties in such unit. SDCTION 6. The aDsts of said improvements shall be paid as follows, to-wit: (a) The City shall pay all of the 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 streets 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, and of installation of curbs and gutters. The remaining costs of all such improvements ahall be paid by the pro- perty abutting such portion of said streets and the owners thereof. (b) The remainder of the costs of such im.provements s.hall 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 assessments shall be made against any abutting property or the real and true owner thereof for costs in excess of the benefits to such pro- perty in enhanced value thereof by means of such improve- ments. The amounts of such assessmeni.s shall constitute a first and prior lien upon all such properties an d a personal liability of the real and true owners thereof, - - -4- r-,m,,,a „r.+ a„H chall be navable in