1555 ORD APPROVING AND ADOPTING WRITTEN STATEMENT AND REPORT OF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS

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Section 3. A portion of the costs of said improvements shall be paid by and defrayed by the City of Paris, Texas, and a portion of the costs thereof shall be assessed against and paid by the property abutting upon said streets within the limits above defined and the real and true owners thereof, in accordance with and in the manner provided by Article 1105b, Revised Givil Sta.tutes of the State of Texas, 1925, as amended, and adopted by the Charter of the City of Paris, Texas; and the tota,l costs of said improvements on said streets as hereinabove de- scribed, shall be, and the same are hereby apportioned between said parties and shall be paid and defrayed as follows: (a) The City shall pay all of the costs of drainage installations, drainage easements, and street intersections. The Texas Highway Department shall pay all costs of excavation and pay said widening pro- ject. The property owners of the abutting properties shall pay all costs of curb, gutters, and driveways. (b) No assessment shall be made against any abutting property or the real and true owners thereof for the costs in excess of the benefits to such property in enhanced value thereof by means of such imprwements. 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 sha,ll be payable in install- ments as follows: When the improvements herein ordered for the streets designated above have been completed and accepted by the Gity 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 insta.llments, 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 Gity, together with interest on each installment from said daae acceptance until paid at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, p yble annually; provided, however, that the owners of any of said property shall have the privilege of paying all or any of said insta.llments at any time be- fore maturity thereof by paying the tota,l amount of the principal of such in- stallments, together with the interest accrued thereon to the date of pay- ment. Further, if default be made in the payment of any of said install- ments of principal or interest promptly as the same mature, then at the option of the Gity of Paris, the entire amount of the assessment upon which default is made, together with reasonable attorney's fees and all collection costs incurred, shall be and become immediately due and payable. Section 4. A hearing shall be held and given to the real and true owners thereof, and all owning or claiming any interest in any property abutting upon said streets within the limits above defined, as to the assess- ments and as to the amount to be assessed against each parcel of abutting property and the real and true owners thereof, as to the special benefits, if any, to said property to be received from said improvements, and con- cerning any error, invalidity or irregularity in any proceedings or contract with reference thereto, which hearing shall be held by the Gity Council of the City of Paris, Texas, at 7:00 o'clock P. M. , on the 14th day of August, A. D. , 1961, in the City Council Room, in the City Hall, in the City of Paris, Texas, at which time and place all persons, firms, corporations or estates, owning or claiming any such abutting property, or interest therein, their agents or attorneys, shall be notified to appear and be heard in person, or by counsel, and may offer evidence; and the City Manager of the City of Paris, Texas, is hereby directed to give notice of said hearing by publica- tion of notice in the Paris News, a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Paris, Texas; said notice shall be published at least three times in said newspaper before the date set for hearing, the first of which shall be at least ten (10) days prior to the date of said hearing, and such notice by publication shall be valid and sufficient, without any further form or character of notice.