1558 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON SUNDRY STREETS IN COP

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SECTION 5. The assessments levied in Section 4 above are for a portion of thecosts of said improvements in the streets and units therein set out which are included in said ordinance enacted November 14, 1960, and the assess- ments for the improvements in said units are in now-ise ;related to, or connected with, the improvements or assessments in any other of the streets or units described in said ordinance; and in levying said assessments the amount so assessed for the improvements in said units hav;e been in nowise affected by any fact or thing in any way connected with the improvernents or 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 nowise affect nor impair the validity of the assessments in any other of said units and the omission of the improvements 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 assessment cannot be levied, shall in nowise affect nor impair the validity of the assessments against the other properties in such unit. SECTION 6. The costs of said improvements shall be paid as follows, to-wit: (a) The City shall pay its distributive portion of the intersections and the Texas State Highway Department shall pay all of the costs of streets and the excavation therefor, and the property owners shall pay the actual cost of curb and gutters and driveway approaches. (b) The remainder of the costs of such improvements ahall be assessed agair'1st the respective abutti.ng properties and the real arid true owners thereof in accordance with the statutes of Texas and the rharte4 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 enhance value thereof by means of such improvement. The amounts of such assessments sha,ll constitute a first and prior lien upon all such properties and a personal liability of the true and real owners thereof, whether correctly named or not, and shall,be payable in installments as follows: When the im- provements herein ordered for the streets designated above and por- tions 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 acceptance until paid at the rate of six per cent (6%) 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 installments 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 made 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 Paria, the entire amount of the assess- ment upon which default is riiade, together with reasona.ble attorney3s fees and all collection costs incurred, shall be and become immediately due and payable. SECTION 7. All such assessments levied are, and shall be, a personal liability and charge against the respective real and true owner or owners of said abutting properties, notwithstanding such owner or owners may not be named ar correctly named, and anv irregularity in the name of the property owner, or the description of any property or the amount of any assessment, or in any other matter or thing 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.