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RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR IMPROVEMEfiNT OF
PORTIONS OF STREETS, AVENUES .AND ALLEYS IN
THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, AND DIRECTIVG
PREPAR-1TION OF PLAINS AND SPECIFICkTIONS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS; That,
Public
necessity
exists that the follotiring
portions
of streets,
avenues
and alleys in the
City of Lubbock,
Texas, be improved as
herein
provided,
to -wit:
Avenue
N
from
SPL -26th
to
NPL -27th Street
Avenue
N
from
SPL -27th
to
NPL -30th Street
Avenue
V
from
SPL, -10th
to
NPL-P?ain Street
Avenue
H
from
SPL -Sanders
St. to
236.71 south of
SPL -Lith Street
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Said portions of streets, avenues and alleys shall be improved by
raising, grading, and filling same, and by installing concrete curbs
and gutters, and store sewers and drains wnere necessary, and by
paving with one of the following types of material on proper foundation,
to -wit:
(a) Virtical Fibre Brick
(b) Rock Asphalt
(c) ,arrenite Bitulithic
(d) Concrete
(e) asphaltic Concrete
(f) Patented Types of Paving
(g) Quadruple Top .sphalt and Rock
The exact type of pavement to be determined by the Commission of
The City of Lubbock after receipt of bids.
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The City engineer is hereby directed to prepare plans and speci-
fications for such improvements embracing specifications for each
of the said types of paving.
1V
Such improvements in each Unit or District shall be paid for in the
following manner:
(a) Railways and street railways using, occupying, or zr.ossing
any portion of said streets and avenues to be improved shall pay for
and be assessed for all the cost of work in the area between their
rails and tracks, double tracks, turnouts, and switches, and two
feet on each side thereof.
(b) The abutting property and owners thereof shall pay and
and shall be assessed for all the cost of constructing curbs in
front of such respective properties, and 100jo of the remaining cost
of such improvements, after deducting the sums to be paid by rail-
ways and street railways under sub paragraphs (a) above, provided
that if it shall appear to the hearing to be had before final assess-
ment that the special benefits to such property in the enhanced
value thereof by means of such improvements will not aggregate such
proportion of cost, then there shall be assessed and be paid by
such abutting property, and the owners thereof, the mounts of such
benefits.
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(c) The remaining cost of said Lmprovements, after deducting
the sums finally assessed against railways and street railways
under sub -paragraph (a) hereof, and against abutting property
and the owners thereof under sub -paragraph (b) above, shall be paid
b�T the City of Lubbock.
V.
-she amounts to be paid by and assessed against railways and street
railways for work between rails and tracks and two feet on each
side thereof, shall be payable on esti.nates as the ��aork progresses
as may be provided in such sp3cifications, and shall bear interest
from date due and until paid at the rate of 6yO per cent per annum.
The amounts to be assessed against and paid by abutting property and
the owners thereof in each Unit shall be payable in five equal
installments, due respectively on or before ten days, 1, 2, 3 and 4
years after the completion and acceptance by the City of the improve-
ments in the unit upon which the property abuts, and shall bear interest
from date of such completion and acceptance and until paid at the
rate of 6% per annum, payable annually, :�iith provision that if de-
fault be made in the payment of any installment promptly as the same
matures, then at the option of the holder of any such assessment or
certificate issued in evidence thereof such default shall mature
the entire assessment upon which same is made.
VI.
Assessments shall be made and levied and shall be a first and prior
lien and personal liability for principal, interest, reasonable
attorney's fees and costs of collection, if incurred all under and
in accordance with the Charter, and amendments thereto, =,) in force
in this City.
VII.
This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
PASSED AND A PROVED this the Jz-/ _ day of , 1941.
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Attest:
ter jecretary.
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