HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 3453 ORDINANCE No. ..fA�Q
AN ORDINANCE DETER11INING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERIXG
THAT A PORTION OF TRWTMAN STREET
IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS. WITHIN TIM LI?TITS HERE-
IN DEFINED, BE I14PROVED: PP.OVIDING THE I-WT11ER. IN WHICH
THE COST OF SUCH IMPROVEHEITTS SHALL BE PAID: DIRECTING
THE CITY ETTGDTM TO PREPARE AND FILE PLANS AND SPECIFI-
CATIONS FOR SUCH I!1PROVEMENTS: DIRMCTIITG THE CITY SECRE-
TARY TO FILE A NOTICE OF THE ADOPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE
WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS: AND DE-
CLARING THAT THIS ORDINANCE AITD ALL SUBSNUET'T PROCEED-
INGS RELATING TO SUCH It1PROV5WTTS ARE AITD SHALL BE PUR-
SUANT TO THE ACT OF TIM FIRST
ET _-CALLED SESSION OF THE FORTI-
ETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, CHAPTER 106, com-
MOKLY KNOWN AS ARTICLE 1.105b. OF THE VERNONTS 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 cf 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 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-wits
TRENTMAN STREET: from the southerly line of Martin Street to
the southerly line of OakhiU Street.
SECTION 2.
That it is hereby ordered that said street within the limits hereinabove des-
.ribed shall be improved by raising, grading, filling, widening, permanently pav-
Ing or repaving same by the construction, reconstruction, repairing or realigning
)f 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 plena 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 First-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 plane 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 er.P trip
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
reel, and true owners thereof shall be and become payable in five (5) equal an-
nual, installments, due respectively on twenty (20) da5ys,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. Further, 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 atterneyts 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.
SECTION 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.
SECTIOtT 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 8.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and af-
ter the date of its passago, and it is so ordained.
APPVT VED AS TO FOW:
1ty Attorney
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NOTICE
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TARRANT
Notice is hereby given that the governing body of the City of Fort
Worth, Texas, has ordered and determined it to be necessary that the following
portion of Trentman Street in the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas,
be improved and that a portion of the cost of such improvement is to be
specially assessed as a lien upon the property abutting thereon, said portion
of street in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, being as follows:
Trentman Street: from the southerly line of Martin Street
to the southerly line of Oakhill Street.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the City of Fort Worth has caused this
instrument to be executed in its behalf and signed by its Mayor, this
day of , A.D. 1956.
• CITY OF 7�T
BY
ATTEsS�4. Mayor
City,Becz'atary
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TARRANT
BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for the
State and County aforesaid, on this day personally appeared, Dr. F. E.
Garrison, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the fore—
going instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as the act
and deed of the City of Fort Worth, a municipal corporation of Tarrant County,
Texas, and as the Mayor thereof, and for the purposes and consideration therein
expressed.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AM SEAL-OF-OFFICE, this the dap of
A.D. 1956.
AQ ........ J ..- -Y,LU1.A ENG[.AND
n r," Notary Publ in and for
"' :', Tarrant County, Texas