1799 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 4, above, are for a por- tion of the costs of said improvements in the street and units therein set out, which are included in said ordinance enacted on April 11, 1966, and the assessments for the improvements in said units are in no wise related to9 or connected with the improvements or assessments in any otheraf 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 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 or the improvement in any particu- lar 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. SECTION 6. The costs of said improvements shalX be paid as follows, to -wit: (a) The City shall pay al], of the costs of drainage installations, wherever located, if any, all the costs of excavation, base preparation and paving within street intersections9 and not less than one-third of thecosts of exca- vations base preparation and paving of all other portions of the street in- volved. In cases where the City Council may deem it just and propers 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 excavation, base preparation and paving, and of insta7.].ation of curbs and gutters. The remaining costs of a11 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 notp and shall be payable in installments 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 thereof 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 (Z), three (3), 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 annually; provideds however,, that the owner of any of said property shall have the privilege of paying all or any of said instal.l,ments at a ny time before maturity thereof by paying the total amount of the principal of such installmentsp together with the interest accrued thereon to the date of paymento Furthers if default be made in the payment of any of said in- stallments 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 made9 together with reasonable attorneyls fees and all collection costs incurred, sha1l be and become immediately due and payable.