1493 ORD DECLARING NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN STREET AND PORTIONS THEREOFORDINANCE NO. 1493
AN ORDINANCE DECLARiNG THE NEGESSITY FOR AND ORDERING
THE IMPROVEMENT OF A CERTAIN STREET AND PORTIONS THF,REOF,
IN THE CITY OF PARIS, DEFINING THE IMPROVEMENTS AND SPECIFI..
CA TION5 FOR SUCH WORK, DIREC TING THE PREPAR.A TION OF ES Ti_
MATES OF THE GOSTS THEREOF, INVOKING THE PROCEDURE RE-.
QUIRED BY ARTICLE 1105b, REVISED CIVIL STATUTES OF TEXAS AND
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PARIS ADOPTING SUCH STATUTE, DE..
TERMINING THAT A PORTION OF TI3E COSTS SHALL BE BORNE BY THE
CITY AND THE BALANCE THEREOF aHALL BE BORNE BY THE ABUTTIIVG
PROPERTIES AND THE OWNERS THEREOF, PROVIDING FOR THE
AS5ESSMENT OF THE PORTION OF THE COSTS TO BE BORNE BY THE
PROPERTY OWNERS, PROVIDiNG FOR THE FIXING OF A LIEN TO SEGURE
THE PAYMENI' OF SUCH ASSESSMENTS, SETTING THE TIME AND MANNER
PROPOSED FOR THE PAYMENT OF SUCH GOSTS, DIRECTING TH.E CITY
CLERK TO CAUSE A NOTICE OF THE ENACTMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE
TO BE FILED IN THE MORTGAGE OR DEED aF TRUST REGORDS OF
LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS,
BE IT ORDAINED BY 'THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS:
Section 1, Tha.t a necessity exists for the improvement of those cer-
tain portions of the public street hereina.fter listed, by scarifying the existing
flexible base, adding additiona.l flexible base where needed, shaping and com-
pacting the flexible base, priming the surface with aspha.lt, applying a wear••
ing surface of asphalt and coverstone, and rolling the surface and brooming
the same after the application of the coverstone, and such improvements are
hereby ordered, the portions of the public street to be so improved being
de s ignate d and define d a s follow s, to -w it:
(1) 29th Street, N. E„ from the South Boundary Line of
East Cherry Street to the North Boundary Line of
East Price Street,
Section 2. The street and portions thereof shall be improved and
fini shed as set out in 5ection 1, above.
Section 3. Tha.t the City Manager has filed an estima.te of the cost of
the above improvements, the same to be done by the forces of the City of
Paris, and has estimated the cost of seventy-five cents (750) per front foot
for said improvements, and in addition the use of machinery now owned by
the City of Paris.
Section 4o The City Council of the City of Paris deems it advisable
and hereby determines to proceed under and in exercise of the powers,
terms, and provisions of Article 1105b, R, C. S. , 1925, and the provisions of
the Cha.rter of the City of Paris adopting said statute of the State of Texa.s.
Section 5, The costs of said improvements shall be paid as follows:
(a) The City of Paris shall pay all costs of any necessary
drainage installa.tions and all of the additional costs in
excess of fifty cents (50~) per centerline foot on said
project.
(b) The remainder of the costs of said improvements, in
the amount of fifty cents <50~) per centerline front foot
shall be assessed against the respective abutting pro•.
perties and the real and true owners thereof, in
accordance with the statutes of Texas and the Charter
of the City of Paris herein referred to. When the
improvements herein ordered for the street designated
above, and the portions thereofa ha.ve been completed
and accepted by the City of Pa.ris, the amount of the
assessment against each property abutting thereon, and
the real and true owner thereof, sha.ll be and becorrie
payable in five equal annual insta.llments, due respec-
tively thirty days after one (1), two (2), three (3), four
(4), and five (5) years from the date of accepta.nce by
the City of Paris, together with interest on each in-
sta.llment from said date at the rate of six per cent
(61a) per annum, payable annually; provided, however
that the owners of any of said properties 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 installmentsy 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 or interest, promptly as the
same mature, then at the option of the City of Paris, the
entire amount, together with reasona.ble attorney's fees
and all collection costs incurred, shall be and become
immediately due and payable.
Section 6. 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.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Paris, in
regula.r session convened, this 12th day of October, A. D., 19590
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J yor Pro Tem
ATTES'd':
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City Clerk
APPROYED AS TO FORM:
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City Attorney.
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