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1530 ORD DECLARING NECESSITY AND ORDERING IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN STREETS AND PORTIONS THEREOF IN COPQRDINANCE NO. 1530 AN ORDINANCE I?ECLARING THE NECESSITY FOR ANB ORDERING THE IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN STREETS ANI? PORTIONS THEREOF, IN THE CITY OF PARTS, I?EFIlVING THE IMPF40VEMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR SUCH WORK, DIRECTING THE PREPAR.ATION OF ESTIMA,TES OF THE COSTS THEREOF, INVOKIlVG THE PR.OCEDURE R.EQUIRED BY ARTICLE 1105b, REVI.SED CIVIL STATUTES OF TEXAS AND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PARIS ADOPTING SUCHSTATUTE,.DETERMINAVG TH.AT A POR- TION OF THE COSTS SHALL BE Bt?RNE B.Y THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND THE BALANCE THEREOF SHALL BE BORNE BY THE ABUTTING PRC)PERTIES A►ND THE OWNERS THEREOF, PROVIDING FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF THE PORTION OF THE COSTS TO BE BORNE BY THE PRQPERTY OWNERS, PROVII2ING FOR THE FIXING OF A LIEN TO SECURE THE PAYMENT OF SUCH .ASSESSMENT, SETTING THE TIME AND MANNER PROPOSEI? FOR THE PAYMENT 4F SUCH COSTS, DI- RECTIlVG THE CITY CLERK TO CA►USE A NOTICE OF THE ENACTMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE TO BE FILED IlV THE MORTGAGE OR DEED OF TRUST RECQRI?S OF LAMAR COUNTYa TEXAS. BE IT ORI?AINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARISe Section 1. That a necessity exists for the improvement of those certain portions of the public streets hereinafter listed, by cooperating with the Highway I?epartment of the Sta.te of Texas, in the widening and shaping of the hereinafter mentioned streets, and providing for curb and gutter on each side of the hereinafter mentioned streets, and such improvements are hereby or- dered, and the portions of the public streets to be so improved being desig- nated and defined as follows, to-wit: (1) U. S. Highway 271, North Main Street, beginning at the North Boundary Line of Clement Road in the City of Paris and ex- tending North to the North Boundary Line of the City Limits of Paris, Texa.s, (2) U. S. Highway 271, Clarksville Street, on the South Side of Clarksville Street, from a point East of 24th Street, S. E. on the South Boundary Line of Clarksville Street where curb and gutter ends on the Paris Junior College property and extend- ing along the South Boundary Line of the Highway as widened to the East Line of the City Limits at the N. W. Corner of a tract belonging to Uarco, Inc, on said Street; and on the North Side of said Street, from the E. B. Line of 24th Street, S. E, , extending along the North Side of said Street to the East Boundary Line of the present City Limits. (3) U. S. Highway 82, Lamar Avenue, beginning at a point South of the extension of the E. B. Line of 30th Street, S. E., on the South Side of Lamar Avenue, at a point where the present curb and gutter ends, and continuing East to the present City Limits of the City of Paris, and beginning on the North Boundary Line of Lamar Avenue, at the East Boundary Line of 30th Street, N. E., continuing on East along the North Boundary Line of said Street to the East City Limit Line, Section 2. That the City Engineer of the City of Paris has filed an estimate of the costs of the above improvements, as furnished to the City Engineer by the Sta.te Highway i?epartment, which has heretofore advertised for and re- ceived bids for the construction of said improvements, and has estima,ted the cost of approximately Qne and 25/100 ($1.25) I?ollars per front foot for said curb and gutter. Section 3, The City Council of the City of Paris deems it advisable and hereby determines to proceed under and exercise the powers, terms, and pro- visions of Article 1105b, R. C. S. , 1925, and the provisions of the Charter of the City of Faris adopting said sta.tute of the State of Texas. Section 4. The costs of said curb and gutter shall be paid as follows: (a) The cost of the curb and gutter, in the amount of $1.25 per center- line front foot, assessed on a front foot basis, shall be assessed against the respective property owners in accordance with the sta.- tutes of Texas and the Charter of the City of Paris herein referred to, and the cost of driveway approachesy in the amount of 40~ per square foot shall be assessed against the respective abutting pro- perty and the real and true owners thereof, in accordance with the statutes of Texas and the Charter of the City of Paris herein re- ferred to. When the improvements herein ordered for the streets designated above and portions thereof, have been completed and accepted by the City of Paris and the State Highway Department of the State of Texas, the amount of the assessment against each pro- perty abutting thereon, and the real and true owner thereof, sha.ll be and become payable in five (5) equal annual insta.llments, due re- spectively thirty (30) days after one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5) years from the date of accepta.nce by the City, together with interest on each insta,llment from said date of acceptance until paid, at the rate of six per cent (60/6) per annum, payable annually; pr ovided, 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 tota.l amount of the principal of such installments, together with the interest accrued thereon, to the date of payment. Further, if default is made in the payment of any of said installments of principal and interest, promptly as the same mature, then at the option of the Cityof Paris, the entire amount, together with reasonable attorneyts fees and all collection costs incurred, shall be and become immediately due and payable. (b) That all of the remaining costs of the improvements to said re- spective highways and/or streets is, by agreement between the City of Paris and the Highway Department of the Sta.te of Texas, to be borne by the Highway I?epartment of the State of Texas. Section 5. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause to be prepared a notice of the enactment of this ordinance and to file said notice among the Mortgage or Deed of Trust Records of said County. Pa.ssed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Pa,ris, in regular session convened, on this the 14th day of November, A. i?., 1960, A T TE T . ~ • ~ City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~ . . 1 ~ Ma yo r ty Atto;;pd-_y.