HomeMy WebLinkAbout03080 ORD - 07/03/1951Q
AN ORDINANCE ,
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO, 3056, PASSED AND APPROVED
BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 29TH DAY OF MAY, 1951,
BY AMENDING SUBDIVISION (C) OF SECTION 3 OF SAID
ORDINANCE, CCERECTING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE
ASSESSMENTS LEVIED AGAINST ABUTTING PROPERTY
OWNERS OF PORT AVENUE FROM THE SOUTH BOUNDARY LINE
OF WEST BROADWAY TO THE NORTH BOUNDARY LINE OF
MO2GAN AVENUE ARE PAYABLE; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT CRDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1, That subdivision (c) of Section 3 of Ordinance No. 3056,
passed and approved by the City Council on the 29th day of May, 1951, is here-
by amended and said subdivision (c) of said Section 3 of said Ordinance shall
hereafter read as follows, to• -wit:
"SECTION 3.
"(c) The property abutting upon said street within the limits
above defined and the real and true owners thereof, shall be '
assessed and pay not to exceed the total cost of constructing
r of the sidewalks, curbs and gutters along a portion of said
street to be improved, as described and designated in said
Ordinance No, 3051, exclusive of the amount thereof herein
specified to be paid by any railway, street railway, or inter- '
urban, as set out in aub- section (a) above, and by the City of
Corprs Christi, as set out in sub- section (b) above.
"The amounts payable bycthe abutting property and the real
and true owners thereof shall be assessed against each property
and the real and true owners thereof and shall constitute a
first and prior lien upon such abutting property and a personal
liability of the real and true owners thereof, and shall be
Payable as follows, to-witr The amounts of said assessments shall
be due and payable In four (4) equal annual installments, the first
of which shall be due and payable twenty (20) days after the date
of said improvements are completed and accepted by the City Council,
and the remaining three (3) installments to be due and payable,
respectively, one (1), two (2) and three (3) years from and after
300
% R
the date of acceptance, together with interest thereon from said
date of acceptance at the rate of five percent (5 %) per annum,
payable annually; provided, however, that the owners of said
property shall have the privilege of paying any one of, or all of,
each installments at any time before maturity thereof by paying
the total amount of principal due, together with interest accrued,
to the date of payment; further, that if default be made in payment
of arV of said installments of principal or intere4, promptly as
,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 become immediately duo and payable, together with
reasonable attorneys fees and collection 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 and true owners thereof in excess of the special benefits
to accrue to such property in the enhanced value thereof resulting
from said improvementse '
SECTION 2. The necessity for amending said Ordinance No, 3056 in
order to correctly show the manner in which assessments against property abutting
upon Port Avenue, within the limits above defined, shall be payable, creates a
public emergency and an imperative public necessity, requiring the suspension
of the Charter Rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on
the date it is introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall. be read
at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared
such emergency and necessity to exist, requesting that such Charter Rule be
suspended, and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its intro-
duction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED,
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the _SjLI'6 day of Jnly, A.D., 1951.
Tr
MAYOR
City Secretary The City of Corpus Christi
APPR 'D AS TO LWAL
t
,q ty Attorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
TO THE 2MUMS OF TEE CITY COUNCIL 1951
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fors-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for
the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or
resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and
- that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at throe meetings of the
City C ouncil; 1, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
MYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForreat
Barney Gott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lcwman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote-
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeFor—st
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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