1430 ORD DECLARING NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING PAVING AND IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN STREETS AND PORTIONS THEREOF IN COP

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preparation 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 abvtting properties and the owner thereof, as herein provided, for the cost of excavation, base preparation, and paving, and of installation of curbs and gutters. The remaining costs of all such improvements shall be paid by the property abutting sueh portion of said streets and the vwners thereof. (b) The remainder of the costs of $uch improvements shall be assessed again5t the respective abwtting properties and the real and true ovners thereof in accordance with the statutes of Texas and the Charter of the City of Paris herein referred to. No assessment shall be made against any abutting property or the real and trwe owner thereof for costs in excessof the benefits to such property in enhance value thereof by means of such improve- ment. The aarount5 of such assessments shall constitute a first and prior lien upon all such properties and a personal liability of the true and real owmers thereof, whether eorrectly named or not, and shall be payable in installments as follows: When the improvements herein ordered for the street desigAated 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 owtzer thereof shall be and become payable in five (5) eqcaal 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, to- gether with interest on each installment from said date of acceptance until paid at thg rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, payable annually; provided, however, that the awners of any of said property shall have the privilege of paying all or any of said installments at any time before maturity there- of by paying the total amount of thc 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 Paris, the entire amount of the assessment upon which default is made, together with reasonable attorney's fees and all collection costs incarred, 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 owner's part of the costs and improvements, and if he shall be unable to obtain reasonable satisfactory security as to any abUtting property or orRmer, the whole city block to which the frontage of any such propesty or properties be- long may be by him deleted from the constreaction contract and the lien upon the properties abutting any such city block and portion of said construction project fixed by the filing of notice of the enactrnent of this ordinance will be released.