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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 89-DAN ORDINANCE Entitled an Ordinance levying and assessing as a tax upon the lots, parts of lots, blocks or tracts of land where not divided into lots or blocks, fronting or abutting on the following streets, namely: L _3 i�eripo$�, location, frontage, etc.as hereinafter set out Railroad Ave. Jefferson n IT if If If It Franklin If ++ it It North n It n If n n Park It McFaddin r, r, If Mi lam It if r, If „ Broadway It If n n n in the City of Beaumont, all of the cost of the construction (the same having heretofore been omitted from paving assess- ment by reason of its homestead character and refusal of the maers to create a lien upon the roperty to secure the payment for the pavement abutting thereon, and declaring said tax a lien upon said property and a personal debt upon the owner or owners thereof and providing_a time when said tax shall become due and payable, providing for the collection of same, and all costs incurred in collecting same, if.not paid at the time it became due and payable; and providing the rate of interest said tax shall bear from the time it beooriie5due until paid and d6- claring an emergency. 'Whereas, pursuant to the requirements of Subdivision h of Section 68 of the charter of the City of Beaumont, the City Commission of the City of Beaumont caused to be published,for the time and in the manner required therefor by the City charter, a notice of a Resolution of said Commission, passed heretofore on December 11th, 1923, ordering a hearing to be given to the persons, firms, corporations or estates, their agents or at- torneys, owning property abutting on the above mentioned streets, as more fully appears hereinafter, and calling on all persons interested in said matter to appear and show cause, in conformity with the provision of the Charter above referred to, why the assessments in said notice should not be made against said pro- perty and the owners thereof, which hearing was to be held in the Council Chamber of the City Hall in Beaumont, Texas, at 7:30 P. M. on the 20th day of December, 1923; AND, WHEREAS, ._a full and fair hearing in conformity with the Charter and the law in such cases having been had in conformity with said notice, and the Commission having inquired into and determined all facts necessary to the adjudication of all special benefits , accruing - to such- owners by means of such improvements; And it appearing that the assessmentsas proposed in the above mentioned Resolution passed on the llth_'day of December, 19031 are in all respects fair and equitable, and that there will be,._a full and adequate and special benefit to the abutting pro- perty and the owners thereof from and by reason of the proposed pavement and improvement in excess of the amount assessed against the abutting property and the respective owners thereof. NO11, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: Section I. That there is hereby assessed against the several owners of property and against their respective property abutting upon the streets hereinafter listed as hereinafter more specifically app?ars, all the cost of paving and gutter and all the cost of curbing an said streets, the said cost assessment and tax re- presenting the said property owners' respective tax and lia- bility, coat and assessment on account of the property owners' liability for tw-thirds of the cost of paving and gutter and all the cost of curbing of said streets. The lot, lots, parts of lots, blocks or tracts of land on which said tax is levied and assessed is hereinafter described, together with the number of feet front on such lot, parts of lots, blocks or tracts of land, the name or names of the owner or owners thereof and the proportionate amount of the cost of said paving and gutter and the cost of said curbing to be borne and paid for by such owner or owners as shown by the statement prepared by the City Engineer of the City of Beaumont, which said amount is here- by levied and assessed as a tax upon such lots, part of lot, blocks or tracts of land as shown, to-wit.- (Insert o-wit: (Insert blue print) SECTION 2. That said tax so levied and assessed shall become due and payable upon the completion of the paving upon the portions of said streets, upon which said lot, lots, parts of lots, blocks or tracts of land front and abut, and the amount of the tax hereby levied and assessed together with the cost of collecting same and seven per cent interest per annum from the date same is collectable until paid is hereby declared a lien against the said lot, lots, part of lots, blocks or tracts of land, superior to all other liens, claims or title except city, county and state taxes, and shall constitute a. personal charge or claim against the owner or owners of the said lots, parts of lots, blocks, or tracts of land. SECTION 3. That fact that the foregoing portions of streets are in bad condition and badly in need of paving in order to facilitate the heavy traffic over same creates an emergency and an impera- tive public necessity necessitating the suspension of the rule requiring ordinances to be read at three separate meetings, said rule is therefore hereby suspended and this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication. Passed this the 28th day of December, A. D. 1923, by the affirmative vote of all members of the Commission. ATTEST: Approved this -the- 28th day of December, A. D.- 1923 City Clerk