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SECTION 5. The assessments levied in Section 4, above, are for a portion <br />of the costs of said improvements in the street and units therein set out, <br />which are included in said ordinance enacted on March 11, 1963, and the <br />assessments for the improvements in said units are in no wise related to, <br />or connected with the improvements or assessments in any other of the <br />streets or units described in said ordinance; and in levying said assess- <br />ments the amount so assessed for the improvements in said units have been <br />in no wise affected by any fact or thing in any way connected with the im- <br />provements or by the assessments therefor in any other of said units. The <br />omission of the improvements in any of said streets or units as a whole <br />shall in no wise affect or impair the validity of the assessmenls in any other <br />of said units and the omission of the improvement in any particular street <br />or unit in front of any parcel of property ex.empt from the lien of such <br />assessments, or against which a valid property assessment cannot be levied, <br />shall in no wise affect or impair the validity of the assessments against the <br />other properties in such unit. <br />SECTION 6. The costs of said improvements shall be paid as follows, <br />to -wit: <br />(a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installations, wherever <br />located, if any, all the costs of ex.cavation, base preparation and paving <br />within street intersections, and not less than one-third of the costs of ex.ca- <br />vation, base preparation and paving of all other portions of the street in- <br />volved. In cases where the City Council may deem it just and proper, the <br />City shall also pay all or any part of the amount of any credited adjustment <br />which may be allowed in the assessment of abutting properties and the owner <br />thereof, as herein provided, for the cost of excavation, base preparation and <br />paving, and of installation of curbs and gutters. The remaining costs of all <br />such improvements shall be paid by the property abutting such portion of said <br />street and the owners thereof. <br />(b) The remainder of the costs of such improvements shall be assessed <br />against the respective abutting properties and the real and true owners <br />thereof in accordance with the statutes of Texas and the Charter of the City <br />of Paris herein referred to. No assessment shall be made against any <br />abutting property or the real and true owner thereof for costs in excess of <br />the benefits to such property in enhance value thereof by means of such im- <br />provement. The amounts of such assessments shall constitute a first and <br />prior lien upon all such properties and a personal liability of the real and <br />true owners thereof, whether correctly named or not, and shall be payable <br />in installments as follows: When the improvements herein ordered for the <br />street designated above and portions thereof have been completed and <br />accepted by the City of Paris, the amount of the assessment against each <br />property abutting thereon and the real and true owner thereof shall be and <br />become payable in five (5) equal annual installments, due respectively thirty <br />(30) days after one (1), two (2), three ~3), four (4), and five (5) years from <br />the date of acceptance by the City, to ether with interest on each installment <br />from said date of acceptanceuitil paid at the rate of six per cent (61o) per <br />annum, payable annually; provided, however, that the owner of any of said <br />property shall have the privilege of paying all or any of said installments at <br />any time before maturity thereof by paying the total amount of the principal <br />of such installments, together with the interest accrued thereon to the date <br />of payment. Further, if default be made in the payment of any of said in- <br />stallments of principal or interest promptly as the same mature, then at the <br />option of the City of Paris, the entire amount of the assessment upon which <br />default is made, together with reasonable attorney°s fees and all collection <br />costs incurred, shall be and become immediately due and payable. <br />SECTION All such assessments levied are, and sha11 be, a personal <br />liability and charge against the respective real and true owner or owners <br />of said abutting properties, notwithstanding such owner or owners may not <br />be named or correctly named, and any irregularity in the name of the pro- <br />perty owner, or the description of any property or the amount of any assess- <br />ment, or in any other matter or thing shall not in anywise invalidate or <br />