10 Sec. XIII Subdiv Ord0l~. N0. 15i$, § X PARIS CODE
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City Attorney, establishing the terms
and conditions of said contractual
assessment.
(d) By the terms of the contract, the
contractual assessment against the
benefited property shall be collect-
able with interest, cost of collection,
and reasonable attorneys' fees. The
assessment shall be a first and prior
llen on the assessed property and
the lien shall take effect on the date
of the execution of the contract by
the City and the owner. The contrac-
tual lien shall be superior to any and
all other liens or claims except a
duly filed and perfected purchase
money lien, mechanics lien, or other
state, county, school district, or mu-
nicipal property tax lien. The assess-
ment shall be a personal liability
and charge against the owners of the
assessed property on the date on
which the lien takes effect.
(e) The City may file a copy of the con-
tract or such other notice as the City
shall deem appropriate in the prop-
erty records of Lamer County to ev-
idence the Citfs lien.
(f) The City may enforce the aforesaid
contractual lien against the assessed
property and the personal liability of
the owner or owners of the property
by an action in court having jurisdic-
tion, or by sale of the assessed prop-
erty in the manner provided by state
law for the sale of property for mu-
nicipal property taxes.
The City may as an aid to enforce-
ment of the liability imposed by the
assessment refuse to connect or may
disconnect water or sewer service to
the property during the period in
which there is a default in the pay-
merit of any amount assessed as
provided herein.
Extension of an alternative sewer collec-
tor as provided herein shall not relieve
the owner or owners of the structure and
(g)
the property of the responsibility and cost
associated with the extension of any nec-
essa. fy private sewer service line from the
structure to the point of connection with
the new City collector, and the owner or
owners shall be responsible for all custom-
ary sewer tap fees or other costs and fees,
if any, associated with a new sewer con-
nection.
(Ord. No. 2003-027, § 2, 6-16-03)
Section XI. Improvements Outside City.
The City of Paris shall at no time, las', build,
construct or erect, or participate by any mannm;
means or degree, in the laySng, building, construc-
tion or erecting of any water line, sewer line,
drainage structure, street or other facility re-
quired by this ordinance on any property, located
beyond and outside the corporate limits of said
City.
Section XII. Acceptance of Plat by Cotmeil.
The final map or plat of a subdivision or
addition to the City of Paris shall never be filed
for record in the office of the county clerk until it
shall have been presented to the city council of
the City of Paris in regular or special session after
the approval thereof by the commission, as
hereinabove specified and required, for accep-
tance by the council of the dedication of streets,
alleys, parks, easements, public places, and water
and sewer lines, as shown and set forth in and
upon said plat, and the city council shall atttho-
rize the mayor to accept the same in the manner
prescribed in Section IV, (Subdivision 14), above,
after the city council has found and determined by
formal action of a majority of the Council that
such proposed subdivision, addition or develop-
ment, in ell things complies with the terms and
provisions of this ordinance and that all required
improvements have been completed, or that per-
formance bond to assure the completion thereof
has been provided by the proposed developer, as
required by Section XIII hereof.
Section XIII. Guarantee of Construction.
The owner or developer of any proposed subdi-
vision or addition covered by this ordinance may,
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in lieu of actually completing the construction of
the improvements required by this ordinance as a
predicate to the approval of the final map or plat
of the same, file with the City of Paris a corporate
surety bond, executed by said owner or developer
as principal and approved surety company li-
censed to do business in the State of Texas, as
surety, in a sum equal to the estimated cost of
such improvements, which said bond shall guar-
antee the construction thereof within the time
stated in said bond, which shall never exceed
seven (7) years. Such bond shall specifically state
it shall remain in full force and effect, regardless
of the time, until such improvements are made
and accepted by the City of Paris as having been
constructed in accordance with the requirements
of this ordinance. Such bond shall be approved by
the city attorney.
The developer and owner shall guarantee the
workmanship and materials used in the construc-
tion and installation of water mains, sanitary
sewer mains and street paving within the subdi-
vision for one (1) year from the date of completion
of all of such improvements as certified to by the
city on,neet of the City of Paris, which period
shall be in addition to the period of guarantee
provided for in section IV(11).
(Ord. No. 2439, § 11, 3-12-79)
Section XIV. Prohibiting Expenditure of
Public Funds.
The approval of any plan, plat or replat by the
Commission shall not be deemed an acceptance of
the dedication of streets, alleys, parks, easements
and other public places therein and thereby ded-
icated, and shall not impose any duty upon the
City of Paris concerning the maintenance, or
improvement of any such dedicated areas or facil-
itles, unless and until the same have been accept-
ed' by the City of Paris by the formal action of a
majority of the city council in regular or special
session convened. Unless and until the dedicated
streets, alleys, parks, easements, public places,
water and sewer line shown on any such plan,
plat or replat shall have been first accepted by the
city council of the City of Paris, as in the manner
aforesaid, it shall be unlawful for any official of
the City to serve or connect any part or portion of
the proper~y covered by such plan, plat or replat
with any public utility which may be owned,
controlled or distributed by the City of Paris.
Section XV. Schedule of Fees.
The follo~ving schedule of fees and charges
shall be collected by the Director of Public Works
when any preliminary map or plat is tendered to
the City for consideration. Each of the fees and
charges provided for herein shall be paid in ad-
vance, and no action of the Commission shall be
valid until the fees, herein provided, shall have
been paid.
(1) Preliminary Plat. Five dollars ($5.00) per
plat plus fifty cents (50¢) per lot.
(2) Final Plat. No charge.
(3) Replats. Five dollars ($5.00) per replat, in
the event no preliminary plat is required.
If preliminary plat is required the fee
shall be the same as (1).
Section XVI. Changes and Variations.
(A) These rules and regulations are the stan-
dard requirements of the City of Paris.
(B) A suspension from or a variation of any of
these rules and regulations may be recommended
by the commission, upon a showing by the owner
or developer that there are special circumstances
or conditions affecting the property in question;
that enforcement of the provisions of this ordi-
nance will deprive the applicant of a substantial
property right; and that such suspension, if granted,
will not be materially detrimental to the public
welfare or injurious to other property or property
rights in the vicinity. Upon recommendation of a
suspension of any of these rules and regulations
by the commission, the city council may, upon
finding that there are special circumstances or
conditions affecting the property in question; that
enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance
will deprive the applicant of a substantial prop-
erty right; and that such suspension, if granted,
will not be materially detrimental to the public
welfare or injurious to other property or property
rights in the vicinity, grant a suspension of any of
these rules and regulations. In the event the
commission, upon a request of the owner or de-
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