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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 3517 ORDINANCE No. 1.? AN ORDINANCE DETERMINING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING THAT A PORTION OF rnT.T.Tw STREET IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, WITHIN THE LIMITS HERE- IN DEFINED, BE IMPROVED: PROVIDING THE 1,WTPIER IN WHICH THE COST OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS SHALL BE PAID: DIRECTING THE CITY ENGINEER TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS AND SPECIFI- CATIONS FOR SUCH IMPROVIDWTS: DIRECTIPTG THE CITY SECRE- TARY TO FILE A NOTICE OF THE ADOPTION OF THIS ORDIYaXCZ WITH THE COMITY CLERK OF TARRAPTT COUNTY, TEXAS: AND DE- CLARING THAT THIS ORDINANCE AND ALL SUBSEgUM T PROCEED- INGS RELATING TO SUCH IPIPROVEIMUS ARE AND SHALL BE PUR- SUANT TO THE ACT OF THE FIRST-CALLED SESSION OF THE FORTI- ETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TE3CAS, CHAPTER io6, cm- MOULY KNOWN AS ARTICLE 110§b, OF THE VERNONIS STATUTES OF TEXAS. WHEREAS, 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 portion d a street in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, in the manner hereinafter provided; THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAIM BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That there exists a public necessity, and said City Council does hereby det- ermine that it is necessary to permanently improve the following described portion of a street within the City of Fort Worth, Texas. as follows, to-wit; Collin street; from the easterly line of Wichita Street to the westerly line of Foard Street. a .a SECTION 2. That it is hereby ordered that said street within the limits hereinabove des- cribed shall be improved by raising, grading, filling, widening, permanently pav- ing or repaving same by the construction. reconstruction, repairing or realignin: of concrete curbs and gutters in the manner and where the City Engineer determines that adequate 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 con- struction of an adequate wearing surface upon a substantial base course, both of such type, construction, materials, and thickness as is deemed adequate and proper by said Engineer, and all of said improvements to be provided for in the pleas and specifications therefor, to be prepared by said City Engineer as hereinafter direct- ed, and as shall be approved and adopted by the City Council. SECTION j. In providing for and making such improvements, said City Council deems it ad- visable and hereby determines to proceed under and in the exercise of the powers, terms and provisions of Chapter 106 of the Acts of the Irirst-Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas, which is known and shown as Art- icle 1105b of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, and as adopt- ed by the City of Fort Worth as Section 17, Chapter XXIII of the Charter of said City. SECTION 4. The City Engineer is hereby directed to forthwith prepare and file with the City Council complete plans and specifications for such improvements. SECTION 5. The cost of said 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 shall pay all of the cost of the curbs and gutters in front of their respective property and not exceeding nine-tenths (9/10ths) of the esti- mated cost of the remainder of such improvements. (b) The City of Fort Worth shall pay all of the remainder of the cost of said improvements after deducting the amounts herein specified to be paid by the abutt•- ing properties and the real and true owners thereof as set out above in subsect- ion (a). The amounts payable by the abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof shall be assessed against such properties and the real and true owners thereof and shall constitute a first and prior lien upon such properties and a personal liability of the real and true owners thereof, and shall be payable as 2. follows, to wit: ' When said improvements are completed and accepted by the City Council, the amounts payable by and assessed against the property abutting thereon and the real and true owners thereof shall be and become payable in five (5) equal an- nual installments, due respectively on twenty (20) days,one (1), two (2), three (3) and four (4) years from the date of said acceptance by said City Council, together with interest thereon from said date of acceptance at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum, payable annually; provided, however, that the owners of said property shall have the privilege of paying any one of or all of such in- stallments at any time before maturity thereof by paying the total amount of prin- cipal due, together with interest accrued to the date of payment. Purther, if de- fault be made in the payments of any of said installments of principal or interest promptly when same matures, then at the option of the Contractor or assigns, the entire amount of the assessment upon which such default is made shall be and be- come immediately due and payable, together with reasonable attorneys fees and col- lection 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 special benefits to accrue to such property in the enhanced value thereof resulting from said improvements. SECTIox 6. In the levying and making of said assessments, if the name of any owner be un- known, it shall be sufficient to so state the fact, and if any property be owned by an estate or by any firm or corporation, it shall be sufficient 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 assessment against the property shall be valid whether or not such owner be named or correctly named. It is hereby further provided that in levying said assessments, the omission of said improvements in front of any parcel of property exempt from the lien of such assessments shall in nowise affect or impair the validity of the assessments again- st the other abutting properties in such street. SECTIOM 7. The City Secretary is hereby directed to cause to be prepared a notice of the enactment of this ordinance and to file said notice with the County Clerk of Tar- rant County, Texas, among the Mortgage Records of said County. SECTION S. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and af- ter the date of its passage, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM: ity-Attorney z_ ORDINANCE Tits �Le. Later. . jr Filers Day a -=-� 18 City Secretary—_ r F.O.Na 25449-U