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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 2613 125 jui r .INF-UP Dli•TEiWinimG T" NEUTSSIxY )DIt AND OraaxING THAI PUR'1'IONS OF BALLINGZX STAXr r I+� AND COLLIXIt STRUT 1N TH& CITY Of r'URx 170R'Tn, TXAAS, WITHIN '1ts LIMITS HaxXim Di+:r'INXI), BN ILIPROVED; PROVIJJiNG ThE MANivIA IN nHIuh '1'n& CUST Or Rll;n ILiP11OV1Zr&NTS SnALL BN PAIN; DIH- ECTING 'Tnl1 CITY ZNGINs1LH TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS AND SPNUIFIUATIONS FOn SUun IL1P1tOv_-AtenTS; VlItZUTING 'TnN CITY SNUnN'TAHY TO FILE A NOTICE OF THE ADOPTION OF THIS ORUINANUN WITH TiE COUNTY CLERK Or TAR1tAN'1' UOU14TY, TEXAS: ANL DEUL 4NG THAT TrUS ORDINANUE ANL ALL SU1fSeQ,- UEBT PRO!VYDINUS P.ELA'TIRG 10 b11UH I1:PAOYEL1ENTS AHE AND ShALL BE PURSUANT '10 'TnN AL%: Or' TIE FI1tST-CALLND SESSION OF TuE FOBT1ETn LEGISLATURE Or' TnX S'TA'rE Or' TzUAS, ChAPTEn-106, UOM- MONLY KNOWN AS AftiCLE 1105-b, OF THE VNENON'S S'1'A'1'UTNS OF .vXAA,. she REAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has determined that a public necessity exists for and has decided to order the improvement of-the hereinafter described portinns of streets in the City of Fori Worth, Texas, in the manner hereinafter provided; TnEi�LFOxE, BE IT OKUAIhau 13Y THE UI'1'Y UOUNUIL Or' 11nE UIT1 OF FORT HU,Ta, TEXAS: SrX:TION 1. That there exists a public necessity, ana said City Council does hereby determine that it is necessary to I permanently improve the following described portions of streets witnin the City of Fort Worth, Texas, as foliowa; to-wit: I t IJALL01UER STAWzT, from the northerly line of West Tenth Street to the southerly line of West S-iventh Street, known and designated as Unit No. 1. COLLIER S'Th>; 1', from the nortrerly line of Nest Tenth Street to the southerly line of West Seventh Street, known and designated as Unit No. 2. SECTION 2. That it is hereby ordered that said streets within the limits hereinabove described shall be imoro ved by I raieinv, grading, filling, widening, permanently paving or repaving same by the construction, reconstruction, repairing or realigning of concrete curbs and gut*era in the manner and where the City Engineer determires that adegnate curbs and gutters are not now installed on proper grade and line, and by construction of such drains and other necessary incidentals and appurtenances as deemed necessary by said Engineer, said permanent paving to consist of the construction of sn adequate rearine surface upon a substantial base course, both of nuc?' type, construction, materials, and thickness, as deemed adequate and proper by said Engineer, and all of said improvements to be provided for in the plans and specifications therefor, to be prepared by said City Engineer, Rs hereinafter directed, and as shall be approved and adopted by the City Council. SECTION 3. In ;roviding for and making such improvements, asid 'City Council deems it advisable and hereby determines to proceed under and in the exercise of the powers, Lerma and provisons of Chapter 106 of the Acts of the First- Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Tqxas, 1925, as amended, and as Pdonted by the City of Fort Worth as Section 17, Chapter XXIII of the Charter of said Cite. SECTION 4. The City Engineer is hereby directed to forthwith prepare and file with the City Council complete plane and specifications for such improvements. SECTION 5. The cost of slid improvements as herein defined shall be paid for as follows, to wit: (a) The property abutting on that portion of the street and 'the real and true owners thereof shell pay all of the cost of the curbs and gutters in front of thier respective property and not exceeding nine-tenths (9/lOthe) of the estimated cost of the remainder of such improvements. (b) The City of Fort Worth shall pay all of the remainder of the cost of said improveman`e after deducting the amounts herein specified to be paid by the abutting properties and the real And true owners thereof ns set out above in subsection (a) above. The amounts payable by the abutting properties and thr real and true owners thereof shall be as-eseed against such-properties and the real and true owners thereof and shall constitute a first aha prior lien upon such pro- perties and a personal liability of the real and true owners thereof, and shall be payable as follows, to wit: When said improvements are completed and accepted by the City Council, the amnunts payable by and nseegsed against the prope!•ty abutting thereon and the real and true owners thereof shall be and become pay able In five (5) equal annual irstallments, due respectively on twenty (20) day-one (1), two (2), three (1), and four (4) years from the date of said acceptance by said City Couniil, tnaether with interest thereon from said date of acceptance at the rate of six per can (6%) per annum, payable,annually; provided, however, that the nrners of said property shall have the privilege of-paying any one of or all of such installments at any time before maturity thereof by paying the total amount of principal due, together with interest accrued to the date of payment. Further, if default be made in the payements of any of acid installments of principal or interest promptly wnen same matures, then at the option of the cnntreator or assigns, the entire amount of the assessment, upon which such default is made enall be and become immediately due And payable, together with reasonable attor- ney's fees and collection costs,. if incurred. However, it is specifically stipulated and provided that no assessment shall in any case be made against any property or the real or true owners thereof in excess of the sneciel benefits to accrue to such property in the enhanced value thereof resulting from said improvements. SECTION 6. In the levying and making of said assessments, if the name of any owner be unknown, it shall be sufficient I to so state the fact, and if any property be owned by an estate or by any firm or corporation, it shall be suf- ficient to so state, and it shall not be necessary to give the correct name of any owner, but the real and true owner of the property mentioned shall be liable and the aecessment agafnet the property shall be valid whether or not such owner be named or correctly no-med. It is hereby further provided the.t in levying said sq-tee-R-ents, the emission of said improvements in front of any parcel of property exempt from the lien of ffac h asee%ssments shall in nowise affect or impair the validity of the assessments against the other Abutting prnperties in such t street. 126 ORDIJNANCS_NO 2613_(Continued) PTne City Secretmry is hereby directed to cause to be prepared a notice of the enactment of this ordinance l)1 and to file said notice with the County Clerk of Tarrant County, Texas. among the 1lortgaFe Recoreds of sAid I County, I SNCTION 8. { li This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from And of :r the dote of its passepP, and it is so ordr.1ned. 6DOP'tEl1 BY 'Ptd: CI•rY COU.:V1L OF '.HE CI•rY OF r'0Ri fiOR'ln, TFAhS, Y.E1)r: 7jjM, NOvt;Wri-'R 24, 1948. E. S. Birdsong, Secretary-'treasurer. • • • • . • • . • • • r • • • • r • . • • • • • • r ■ I. • • • • • r • r r • • • ► • • s • r s • r • • • • • sIi ' I