HomeMy WebLinkAbout1968-206-08 - Levying of Special Assessments for ImprovementsBILL N0, pZDC~- ~ ORDINANCE N0. V-~
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LEVYING AND COLLECTING OF "SPECIAL
ASSESST~IENTS FOR I1~TPROVET~NTS" IN THE FORM OF SPECIAL TAX BILLS
FOR THE GRADING, PAVING, CURBING AND GUTTERING OF CERRITO LANE
IN THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF 88.811 -
88.801 R. S. NtO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE,
MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The grading, paving, curbing and guttering of
Cerrito ane n the City o Riverside, issouri, ursuant to a
co tract entered into e~~ca„ ~ ~§~ r Q~~
_p- J'h s a e pa~f or by special
assessmen s aga ns e proper enefited. Such assessments shall
be known as "Special Assessments for Improvements" and shall be
levied and collected as a special tax and special tax bills shall
issue therefor.
Section 2. Such special tax bills signed by the city clerk,
_ and un er e corporate seal of the municipality shall be issued
and delivered to said contractor by the city clerk after the
Board accepts the work done and approves the report of the engineer
for the City in charge of the improvement. The report of the
engineer shall be made after completion of the improvement in
accordance vrith the contract and shall have the computation of
the cost of the improvement and an apportionment of the cost among
the tracts of land chargeable therewith, charging each tract of
land with its proportionate part of the cost.
Section 3. The special tax bill shall include attorney fees
and engine-'- erg fees, the total of which shall not exceed 10~ of
the total cost of the improvement and such tax bills shall bear
interest at the rate of 8o interest per annum from sixty days
after the date of issue until paid; all the tax bills shall become
due and payable sixty days after the date of issue thereof, except
in the case of tax bills payable in installments as herein provided;
and every special tax bill shall be a lien against the lot or
tract or parcel of land described in such special tax bill for a
period of ten years after date of issue, unless sooner paid,
except in the case of special tax gills payable in installments,
_ the lien of which shall not expire until one year after the date
of maturity of the last installment and except in any case where
it becomes necessary to 'oring a suit to enforce the lien of any
special tax bill, the lien of which shall continue until the
expiration of the litigation.
Section ~+. Each tax bill shall in substance contain a
brief gener~T statement of the facts authorizing its issue, the
amount for vrhich it is issued, a description of the land against
which it is issued, the name of the contractor to whom it is
issued, the rate of interest which it bears, and when it begins
to bear interest and shall state that it is a special lien against
the land therein described and the time that the lien continues.
It need not give the name of the owner of the land against which
it is issued.
Section 5. Any special tax bill may be paid in ten annual
instal men s provided the ovrner of the property described in
the special tax bill shall have filed a written request with the
clerk within thirty days after the letting of the contract for
the improvement, that his tax bill or bills shall be made payable
in installments. In such case the tax bill shall be payable in
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annual installments of 1/10 of the total amount of the bill or
'a ills in ten years after the date of their issue and shall 'Dear
3o interest per annum, payable annually, from sixty days after
the date of their issue until paid. If any annual installment
or the interest thereon is not paid when due, then all the re-
maining installments shall at the option of the holder of the
tax bill become immediately due and payable provided that the
owner of the property charged with the payment of the tax bill,
or the owner of any interest therein, shall have the privilege
of payin the whole of any tax bill in full at any time or on any
annual installment payment date of paying in full one or more of
the remaining installments not of maturity date.
Section o. Any error made in issuing arty tax bill may be
correc~e~oy-Fie clerk of the City either by interlineation in
it or by issuing a new tax bill in lieu of the erroneous one,
but when a tax bill is corrected by interlineation the date of
malcir~ same shall be certified to by the clerk on the margin on
the back of the bill.
Section 7. The cleric upon completion of all special tax
bills s a en er an abstract thereof in a special book provided
for that purpose. Said abstract shall recite the date of the
tax bill, the name of the property owner and of the person in
whose favor it is issued, and a description of the property subject
to the lien, and the street upon which it abuts, amount of the tax
bill, and the character of the improvement for which it is issued.
ti4hen any tax bill is assigned, the assignment shall be noted
thereon and the assignees shall exhibit the same to the city clerk,
who shall, on the margin of said tax bill, appropriately note the
assignment. The party liable to pay the tax bill may either pay
the owner of the tax bill, or he may pay the amount of the tax
bill to the Collector of the municipality, who shall accept the
money and make out duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he
shall deliver to the person so paying the tax bill and the other
he shall file with the clerk of the municipality. The clerk shall
note the filing of the receipt on the margin of the abstract of
the tax bill and shall mark the latter cancelled and shall affix his
name to the cancellation with the date thereof. The cancellation
shall have the effect to extinguish all liability or right of
action on the tax bill. The Collector on the presentation to him
of the tax bill by its owner, shall pay to hire the amount thereof,
talon; duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall file
with the clerk, who shall note it on the margin of the abstract
of the tax bill, the other the Collector shall retain.
PASSED thi s ___G__+ d ay of
1963.
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APPROVED this ~~~day of 1963.
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