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CONTRACT FOR THE COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT TAXES STATE OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF LAMAR § This Contract is made and entered into by and between the CITY OF PARIS, a political subdivision of the State of Texas, acting by and through its governing body, hereinafter called Taxing Authority, and PERDUE, BRANDON, FIELDER, COLLINS & MOTT, L.L.P., Attorneys at Law, Tyler, Texas, or their duly authorized representatives, hereinafter called the Firm. 1. Taxing Authority agrees to employ and does hereby employ the Firm to enforce by suit or otherwise the collection of all delinquent taxes, penalty and interest owing to Taxing Authority which the Taxing Authority's Tvc Collector refers to the Fim, provided current yeazs taxes becoming delinquent within the period of this Contract shall become subject to its terms upon the following conditions: A. Taxes that become delinquent during the term of this Contract that are not delinquent for any prior yeaz become subject to the terms of this Contract on the 1' day of July, of the yeaz in which they become delinquent, and B. Taxes that become delinquent during the terms of this Contract on property that is delinquent for prior yeazs shall become subject to its terxns on the first day of delinquency. C. Taxing Authority reserves the right to make the final decision as to whether or not to enforce by suit any delinquent taac account turned over to the Firm for collection. II. The Fum is to call to the attention of the collector or other officials any errors, double assessments, or other discrepancies coming under their observation during the progress of the work and is to intervene on behalf of the Taxing Authority in all suits for taxes hereafter filed by any taxing unit on property located within its taxing jurisdiction III.