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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2534 � r ORDINANCE NO.� AN ORDINANCE DETERMINING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING THAT A PORTION OF MORTON STREET IN THE CITY OF FORT 'NORTH, TEXAS, WITHIN THE LIMITS HEREIN DEFINED, BE I]MVED; PROVIDING THE MORM IN WHICH THE COST OF SUCH IMPROVRMTS SHALL BE PAID; DIRECTING THE CITY ENGINEER TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENTS; DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO FILE A NOTICE OF THE ADOPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS; AND DECLARING THAT THIS ORDINANCE AND AIR. SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO SUCH IMPROVE'MTS ARE AND SHALL BE PURSUANT TO THE ACT OF THE FIRST-CALLED SESSION OF THE FORTIETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, CHAPTER 106, COMONLY KNOWN AS ARTICLE 1105b OF THE VERNON'S STATUES OF TEXAS. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, has de- termined that a public necessity exists for and has decided to order the improvement of the hereinafter described portion of a street in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, in the manner hereinafter provided; THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT MORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That there exists a public necessity, and said City Council does hereby determine 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 MORTON STREET, from the westerly line of CURRIE STREET to the easterly line of UNIVERSITY DRIVE, save and except the Intersection of NORMOOD STREET. SECTION 2. That it is hereby ordered that said street within the limits hereinabove described shall be improved by raising, grading, filling, widening, permanently paving or repaving same by the construction, reconstruction, repairing or realigning 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 construction of an adequate wearing surface upon a substantial base course, both of such type, construo- tion, materials and thickness as is deemed adequate and proper by said En- gineer, and all of said improvements to be provided for in the plans and specifications therefor, to be prepared by said City Engineer as hereinafter directed, and as shall be approved and adopted by, the City Council. SECTION 3 In providing for and making such improvements, said City Council deems it advisable and hereby determines to proceed under and in the exercise of the powers, terms and provisions of Chapter 106 of the Acts of the First- Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas, ihich is known and shown as Article 1105b of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, and as adopted by the City of Fort Worth as Section 17, Chapter ACIII, 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 improvenents as herein defined shall be paid for as follows, to wit: (a) The property abutting on that portion of the streets 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 estimated cost of the remainder or 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 pairs by the abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof as set out above in subsection (a) above. 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 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 annual installments, due respectively on twenty (20)days one (1), two (2), three (3) and four (4) years fn>m 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 annul, payable annually; provided, how- ever, that the owners 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 payments of any of said installments of principal or interest promptly when same matures, than at the option of the contractor or assigns, the entire amount of the assessment upon which such default is made shall be and become immediately due and payable, together with reasonable attorney'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 special benefits to accrue to such prop- erty 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 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 bot 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 no- wise affect or impair the validity of the assessments against the other abutting properties in such street- SECTION 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 Tarrant County, Texas, among the Mortgage Records of said county. SECTION 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM; t C` T Attorney ORDINANCE No. Title V Date Filed ® Day of a 19i City Secreta EX 4 -vt /'K V�� o i P.0.No.1978-A