Ordinance #203

Ordinance #203

An ordinance making and levying a special assessment on all lots, blocks and parcels of ground hereinafter described liable for the costs and expenses of grading, curbing, guttering and paving except the intersections from and by crossing and intersecting streets of Poplar Street from Main Street to Center Street; Center Street from Poplar to State Street; State Street from Center Street to Park Street; Park Street from State Street to Jones Street; Jones Street from Park Street to County Road in the City of Troy, Kansas.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Troy, Kansas:

Sec. I. That for the purpose of paying the cost and expense of grading, curbing, guttering and paving Poplar Street from Main Street to Center Street, Center Street from Poplar Street to State Street, State Street from Center Street to Park Street, Park Street from State Street to Jones Street, Jones Street from Park Street to County Road, except the squares and areas formed by crossing and intersecting streets in the City of Troy, Kansas, the following described lots, blocks and parcels of ground are hereby assessed and the amount set opposite said lots, blocks and parcels of ground respectively as the portion of the costs and expenses of said assessment to be paid by the owners of said lot, block and parcel of ground, to-wit

provided that of the said collections in ten equal installments beginning due in 1921 and one of said installments shall become due each and every year thereafter until the entire number are paid, and all unpaid installments to draw interest as herein provided and shall be collected as other taxes are collected; provided, that any owner of any piece of property liable for any such assessment may redeem his property from such liability at any time within thirty days from the time this ordinance shall take effect and the City Clerk is hereby directed to mail to each and every owner a written or printed notice describing the lot and the amount of the special assessment on any lot, block or parcel of ground shall be paid in full, such property shall not thereafter be liable for any further assessment for the costs or expenses of such improvements.

Sec. II. That there is hereby further levied and assessed against each lot, block and parcel of ground described in Section I. of this ordinance six per cent per annum on all said installments save those which are paid full within thirty days from the time this ordinance shall go into effect and said interest to run from the date when the said improvement bonds shall be issued until the payment of each installment as provided herein; all of which shall be collected annually at the same time and in the same manner as said installments; The City Clerk shall at the times and in the manner as provided by law for certifying the taxes forthwith 1920 and annually thereafter until required assessments are paid in full certify to the County Clerk of Doniphan County, Kansas a list of lots, blocks and parcels of ground liable for their costs and expense of said improvements and on which the assessments of taxes respectively set out herein has not been paid together with the interest on unpaid installments at the rate of six per cent per annum and such amounts so certified shall be collected as other taxes are collected, and the money so collected shall be applied toward the redemption of the improvement bonds which may be issued for said improvements, and toward reimbursing the City of Troy when such bonds or any part thereof are redeemed from general taxes.

Sec. III. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force from and after its publication in the Kansas Chief.

Passed and approved September 28-1920.

(Seal)

A. L. Macomber
Mayor

Attest: Grace B. Finley
City Clerk.