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Show paving wm. The Ordinance Which the City Council Has Under Consideration to Im- , prove the Streets, WHAT THE MEASURE PROVIDES. How Notices Are to be Served and Assessments As-sessments Levied on the Owners of Property, Appended is the ordinauce now under consideration by the city council providing for the paving and improving improv-ing of the streets. An ordinance providing for paving, repaying, maeademi.ing or repairing streets and alleys in Salt Liiket'ily: Section 1. Be it ordained by the city council of .Salt Lake City; That whenever the city council shall deem it necessary to pave, maeademizo or repair re-pair any street or alley within the city limits, it shall determine the character, quality, extent and location of such proposed pro-posed improvement, and cause an estimate es-timate to be made by the city engineer of the cost thereof, name the paving district or part thereof specially to be benefitted or affected by the same, and shall include only lots and lands abutting abut-ting upon the streets and alleys to be paved, macademized or reepaired, in proportion to the square feet or feet front, or both, so abutting upon such streets and alleys, and for that purpose the city council shall create suitable paving districts in the city, which shall be consecutively numbered.. num-bered.. The council shall set a time when it will meet to hear and consider objections objec-tions or protests so the paving, repairing, repair-ing, macadamizing or repairing such streets or alleys, or the defraying of the expense thereof by local assessment: assess-ment: provided, that one-half tho expense ex-pense of bringing streets and alleys or part, thereof to tho established grade, shall be paid out of the general fund of tho city. The final action of tho council coun-cil in respect to the matters mentioned in this section shall be entered and preserved pre-served in the city record. Section 2. Tho city council shall next cause a notice of its intention to make" the improvement, and defray the cost and expense thereof by local assessment, describing tho proposed vided. that the cost of paving, macadamizing macad-amizing or repairing the tenwctOT of streets and space opposite alleys in any paving district shall be paid by the C1Se'e. IV. The council shall next make an ordinance levying the tax aud for the assessment of the property in accordance ac-cordance with the apportionment and determination of the council, whicn apportionment ap-portionment shall bo. fully set f such ordinance. The total cost of the improvements shall be levied at one time upon the property to be attccteu thereby; and the ordinance shall also designate bv number the Paving district dis-trict embracing the property to be '"sec V. A copv of the ordinance certified by the recorder, under the corporate seal of the city, shall be delivered to the citv assessor and collector, wlio snail immediately proceed to list and assess the property, according to the apportionment appor-tionment set forth in said ordinance, stating the name of the owner, or if unknown, then so stating the number and dimensions of each lot or piece ot ground, and the amount .of tax levied thereon, but it shall be sullicient to describe de-scribe the lot, or piece of ground as the same ' is platted and recorded. He shall also make a plat to accompany said list, Bliowiug the location loca-tion of the improvement anil the position posi-tion of the respective lots or pieces of ground assessed, with reference to the same, and shall return and lodge said list and plat when completed with the recorder within ten days after the receipt re-ceipt of such order, or such further tune as the council may allow. See. VI. Upon the completion of tho list mentioned iu section five of this -.ordinance, i the city council shall appoint five of its members as a board of equalization and review, and the list shall bo placed in tho hands of said board, and the said board shall not give less than ten days public notice of publication in some newspaper published within the city, of the completion of said list, and appoint not less than live consecutive days upon which they will meet during the usual business" hours, and slate the place of its meeting, and during the time specilied the list shall bo open to public inspection, and any person or persons feeling themselves aggrieved, shall have hearing before sa.d. board, and the said board shall have authority to make correction of any tax deemed by them unjust.' The city assessor and collector shall lie present at each session ses-sion of said board and note upon said list such corrections and changes as may be ordered by the board, and when said list is complete the council shall make an ordinance confirming the assesment set forth in the list as corrected by the board of equalization, equaliza-tion, a copy of which ordinance certified by the recorder under the corporate cor-porate seal, together with such corrected cor-rected list, shall be delivered to the city assessor and collector, and shall constitute con-stitute his warrant for tho collection of said taxes; such taxes shall become delinquent de-linquent as follows: One-tenth (1-10) of the total amount shall be delinquent in fifty days after the date of the levy of such taxes; one-tenth (M0) in 'two years; one-tenth iu three years, one-tenth one-tenth (MO) in fulu. years, one-tenth (1-10) in five years, one-tenth (1-10) in six years, one-tenth (1-10) in seven years one-tenth (1-10) in eight years, one-tenth (1-10) in nine years thereaf'cr, each of said installments except the first shall draw interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum from the time of levy aforesaid, afore-said, until the same shall become delinquent, de-linquent, and after the same shall become be-come delinquent interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum shall be paid thereon. Sec. 7. Said assessor and collector upon receipt of the certified copy aforesaid, afore-said, shall, without delay, give at least live days' notice i'n one or moro newspapers, having general circulation in Salt Lake citv. of the time when said tax will become delinquent. delin-quent. t Section VIII. Upon tho receipt of t he corrected list, aud ordinance continuing con-tinuing the assessment aforesaid, the assessor and collector shall collect the assessment in like manner, as iu other cases of special taxes, and shall furnish to each taxpayer by mail, postage prepaid, pre-paid, or leave at his usual place of business busi-ness (if known! a notice of the amount of tax assessed against hjm. and when and where payable Section IX. The entire cost of making such improvement as 'a'oresaitl, prop-erly prop-erly chargeable to any lots or lands within, any paving district, may be paid by the ow ner of said lots or lands within fifty days of the levy of such special taxes, add thereupon such lots or lauds shall be exempt from any lien or charge therefor. See.X. Tho assessor aud collector shall pay over to the City Treasurer all moneys collected bv him at the end of each month, or sooner if required by the ,ouueip, : f "See . XL .' This ordinance shall take effect from and afiev its -passage. improvement, naming the paving district dis-trict or part thereof to be affected or benefited by the same, the estimated cost thereof, aud designating the timo set for tho hearing mentioned in the last section, to be published at least twenty days in a newspaper published within the city, which notice shall be substantially in the following form: Notice is hereby given by the city council of Salt Lake city of the intention inten-tion of such council to make the following follow-ing described improvement, to-wit: and defray the cost and expense thereof, there-of, estimated at Dollars, by a local assessment upon the lots and land within paving district number 0f Salt Lake City., abutting upon the streets and alleys to be affected or benefitted by said improvement, namely: '. '..... All'ob- jeelious to the carrying out of such intention in-tention must be presented in writing to the eity recorder on or before the day of 18..., being the time set by said council when it will hear and consider such objections as may be made thereto. By order of the City Council of Salt Lake City. City Recorder. Section III After the expiration of twenty days, and on the day designated in the notice, the council shall meet and if written objections to tho making of the improvement signed by owners of one-half of the trout feet abutting upon that portion of the street, avenue or alley to be so improved. 10 bo tiled with the recorder, the council shall hear and consider such objections, if any, as shall have been made . If the council shall determine to proceed pro-ceed with the improvement, it sliall make an order which shall be entered of record in the minutes of its proceedings, authorizing and directing the work to be made under the supervision super-vision of the Board of Public Works and shall apportion and assess the cost of the improvement, or the part thereof as specified in tho notice, upou the lot and lands abutting upon the streets and alleys within such paving district to bo affected or benefited by such improve-ment, improve-ment, in proporportio'n to the square feet or feet front, or both, so abutting upon such streets and alleys, and to the extent of the benefits to such lots, parts of lots, lands ami real estate bv reason of such Improvements, such benefits to be equal and uniform aud an allowance may bo made for corner lots so that they shall not be assessed at lull rates on both streets, according to such rules as the hoard of equalization shall consider fair, tul equitable, pro- |