1754 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPRETY ABUTTING ON CERTAIN STREET 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 units therein set out, which are in- cluded in said ordinance enacted on November 9, 1964, and the assessments for the improvements in said units are in no wise related to, ormnnected with the improve- ments in any other of the streets or units described in said ordinance; and in levying said assessmPnts the amount 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-prove- ments or by the assessments therefor in any other of said units. Th.e omission of the improvements in any of said streets or units as a whole shall in no wi.se affect or impair the validity of the assessments in any other of said units and the oma.ssion 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 assess- ment cannot be levied, shall in no wise atfect or impair the validity of the assess- ments against the other properties in such unit. SECTION 6. The costs of said im7rovements shall be paid as follows, to-wit: (a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installations, wherever lo- cated, if any, all the co sts of excavation9 base preparation and paving wi.thin street intersections, and not less than one-third of the costs of excavation, base prepara- tion and paving of 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 properties and the owner thereof, as herein provided, for the cost of ex- cavation, base preparation and paving, and of installation of curbs and gutters. 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 improvemrcnts 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 excess of the benefits to such property in enhanced 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 improveme.nts 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), three (3), four (4), and five (5) years from the date of acceptance by the City, together with interest on each in- stallment from said date of acceptance until paid at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, payable annually; 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, to- gether with the interest accrued thereon to the date of payment. Further, if defau.lt be made in the paym-ent of any of the said installments of principal or interest promptly as the same mature, then at the option of the City of Paris, the entire amuunt of the assessment upon which default is made, together with reasonable attorney=s fees and all collection costs incurred, shall be and become imcnediately due and payable. SECTION 7. All such assessments levied are, and sha11 be, a personal liability and charge against the respective real and true owner or owners of said abutting proper- ties, notwithstanding such owner or owners may not be named or correctly named, and any irregularity in the name of the p.roperty owner, or the description of any property or the amount of any assessment, or in any other matter orthing shall not in anywise invalidate or impair any assessment levied hereby, and any such mistake, or error, invalidity, or irregularity, may be, but is not required to be, in order to be enforceable, corrected at any time by the City Council of the City of Paris, Texas.