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RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR DERMFEMENT OF 34TH STREET FROM INDIANA AVENUE
TO QUAKER AVENUE IN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK., TEXAS, A1VD DIRECTING PREPARATION OF
PLAYS AND SPECIFICATIONS.
BE IT PYSOLVED BY THE CITY C01,21ISSION OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, THAT:
I.
Public necessity exists that`34th Street from WPL Indiana Avenue to WPL
Quaker Avenue, in the City of Lubbock, be improved as herein provided.
II.
Said portion of 34th Street shell be improved by raising, grading and
filling same, by installing concrete curb and gutters, by installing storm sewers
and drains where necessary, by installing a compacted caliche base, rind by sur—
facing with quadruple asphaltic surface treatment (Penetration type).
III.
The City Engineer is hereby directed to prepare plans and specifications
for such improvements.
Such improvements in each unit shall be paid for in the following manner:
'(a) The abutting property and owners thereof shall pay and shall be assessed
for all the cost of constructing curbs in front of such respective property and a
part of the remaining cost of such improvements, provided that such part of the
costs assessed to the abutting property or owners thereof shall not exceed 90%
of the cost of the improvements plus the cost of the curb, and further provided
that if it shall appear at the hearing to be had before final assessment is made
that the special benefits to such property by way of enhancement value thereof
by means of such improvements will not aggregate such proportion of the cost as
specified above., then there shall be assessed and be paid by such abutting propert
and the owners thereof, a lesser emount not to exceed the benefits.
(b) The remaining cost of said improvements, after deducting the sums finally
assessed Pgainst abutting property and the owners thereof under sub-paragraph
(a) above, shall be paid by the City of Lubbock and the County of Lubbock, Texas.
V.
The amounts assessed against and to be paid by the abutting property and th
owners thereof shall be payable in three equal installmentss the first of which
r^, shall become due on or before 10 days after completion and acceptance of the
improvements in the unit on which the propperty abuts by the City Commission; the
second and third, one and two years respectively after completion and acceptance
of the improvements in the unit upon which the property abuts, by the City Corniiss
Ion, and shall bear interest from the date of completion and acceptance until paid,
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at the rate of six percent per annum, payable annually; with provisions that if
default be made in the payment of any installment promptly as the same matures;
then at the option of the holder of 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
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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, now in force in this City, and in
accordance with the provisions of Article 1105 B Revised Civil Statutes of Texas
as amended by Chapter 281 Acts of the 52nd Legislature,.
vIII.
This Resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
PASSED AKD APITIO H THIS 19th DAY OF December, 1951.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Secretary
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City Attorney
APPROVED:
City Engineer