1667 ORD DECLARING NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING PAVING AND IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN STREETS AND PORTIONS THEREOF IN COP

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Section 4, The City Council of the City of Paris deems it advisable and hereby determines to proceed under and exercise the powers, terms, and provisions of Article 1105b, R. C. S. 1925, and the provisions of the Charter of the City of Paris adopting said statute of the State of Texas. 5ection 5. The costs of said improvements shall be paid as follows, to -wit: (a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installations, wherever located, if any, all the co5ts of excavation, base preparation and paving within street intersections, and not less than one-third of the costs of excavation, base prepara- tion and paving of 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 properties and the owner thereof, as herein pro- vided, for the cost of excavation, base preparation, and paving, and of installation of curbs and gutters. The remain- ing costs of all such improvements shall be paid by the pro- perty abutting such portion of said streets and the owners thereof. (b) The reaminder of the costs of such improvemerts shall be assessed against the respective abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof in accordance with the sta- tutes of Tex.as 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 ex.cess 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 installments -as follows: When the improvements herein ordered for the streets 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 installment from said date of aeceptance until paid at the rate of six per cent (6016) per annum, payable annually; provided, however, that the owners of any of said property shall have the privilege of paying all or any of said install- ments 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 of payment. Further, if default be rnade in the payment of any of said installments 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 made, to- gether with reasonable attorney's fees and all collection co sts incurred, shall be and become immediately due and payable. Section 6. The City Manager of the City of Paris is hereby au- thorized to secure and obtain any security lien, or document desired, in addition to the paving assessments and certificates authorized by law to secure the payment of the respective property ownerts part of the costs