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ORDINANCE NO. 7,01
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, REPEALING
SECTION 826 OF THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
19561 RELATING TO THE METHOD OF PAYING FOR SIDEWALK, CURB
AND STREET IMPROVEMENTS, AND ENACTING A NEW ORDINANCE PERTAINING
TO THE SAME SUBJECT TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION 826 OF THE REVISED
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, 1956 .
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS :
Section 1 . Section 826 of the Revised Ordinances of
the City of Jefferson, Missouri, 1956 be, and the same is
hereby, repealed.
Section 2. There is hereby enacted a new section of
qP the ordinances of the city to be known and cited as Section 826
of the Revised Ordinances of the City of Jefferson, Missouri,
19561 relating to the method of paying for sidewalk, curb
and street improvements, and such section shall read in words
and figures as follows :
"Section 826 . Cost of work to be levied as a
special assessment; exception. 1. Subject to the
provisions of subsection 2 of this section, the
cost of any work or improvement provided for by
S ctions 790 through 803 and Sections 821 through
H3 of this chapter that is made or done by contract,
or by the city engineer acting for the city, shall
be levied as a special assessment against the lot,'
tract or parcel of land along, abutting and in front
of said improvement, and the cost of approaches, as
defined in section 803 of this chapter, shall be
levied as a special assessment against the corner
lots with which said approaches abut and connect, and
the cost of grading, paving or macadamizing the
squares and areas as formed by the crossing or meeting
of streets, avenues, or alleys, or parts thereof, or
connections therewith, shall be paid for by levying
a special assessment, as follows: Such areas shall be
divided into parts or portions by lines drawn length-
wise along the middle of each street, avenue or part
thereof, so intersecting or meeting, and the costs of
said parts or portions shall be levied as a special
assessment against the block or square contiguous
to each, and prorated, in proportion to the front
feet, against the lots or pieces of ground in such
block or square fronting or abutting on each of such
intersecting, crossing or meeting streets, avenues
or alleys, or parts thereof.
2. If the city council, by the ordinance
authorizing and directing such improvement or
improvements to be made, shall provide that all, or
any portion, of such improvements, or any of them,
shall be paid for in whole, or in part, out of the
general revenue funds or other funds which the city
® has available for such purposes, then only such
portion of such improvements, or any of them,
shall be paid for through the issuance of special
assessments as is specified in the ordinance
authorizing and directing the improvement or
improvements to be made. "
Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and approval.
Passed:, r,Q V; Approved j� -4
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President of he Council Mayor
Attest:
City Clerk
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