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
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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.-
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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