1805 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON CERTAIN STREET IN COP

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SECTION 5. The assessments levied in Section 42 above= are for a portion o• the costs of said improvements in the street and units therein set out, which are incl.uded in said ordinance enacted on September 122 1966, and the assessments for their~rovements in said units are in no wise related to, or connected with the improvements or assessments in any other of the streets or units described in said ordinance; 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 im- provements 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 or the improvement in any particular street or unit in front of any parcel of property exempt from the lien of such assess- ments, 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. SECTION 6. The costs of said improvements shal.l, be paid as folows, to -wit: (a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installatinns, wherever located, if any, alI the costs of excavation, base preparation and paving with- in street intersections, and not less than one-third of the costs of excava- tion, 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 shalX also pay alI or any part of the amount of any credited adjustment which may be al].owed in the assessment of abutting properties and the owner thereof9 as herein provided, for the cost of excavation, base preparation and paving. The remaining costs of aU 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 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 property in enhance 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 not9 and shall be payable in in- stallments 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 installments, due respectively thirty (30) days after one (1)., two (2)p three (3)9 four (4)s 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 annuall,y; provided, however, that the owner 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 installments, together with the interest accrued thereon to the date r _ - _ ~_I - ' r ' - r- --t.i 1 - - -1 - - ~L - - -'-.i. - t - P