The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-08-04
Full Text of
the Improvement
District Ordinance

DEC. 7. mere lncIc - mOtc
than one district In the city for the
same general purpose, the same
member may be on two or more
boards or tine boards of different
districts may corabine, so as to
form one board for the whole terri
tory to be thus improved, so as to
make the whole Improvement uni
form. But no money raised by as
sessment in one district shall be ex-
pended in another district.
Sec. s. A majority of the board
shall constitute quorum for the
transaction of business and the per-
Torrance of the duties enjoined by
this ordinance.
Sec. 9. immediately after their
qualification the 9 oard shall form
plans for the improvements within
its district. as prayed in the petit
ton, and shall procure estimates of
the cost thereof. But all such inn
provemeuls shall be made with re-
ference TO the grades Of the streets
and alleys, as fixed or may be FIX
ed, by the ordinances Of said City.
For that purpose said Board shall
employ such engineers and other
agents as may be needflil, and may
provide for their compensation,
which with all other necessary ex-
penditures shall be taken as a part
of the cost of the improvement. If
for any reason the improvement
shall not be made said cost shall be
a charge on the real property in
the district and shall be raised
and paid by assessment in the
manner herein after prescribed.
Sec. 10. AS soon as said Board
shall have formed said plans and
shall have ascertained the cost Of
the Improvement In said district it
shall report the same to the city
council, which shall at once by or
dinance assess said cost upon the
real property in district in such a
manner as to require each lot or
parcel Of land to bear the cost of
such grading, paving, macadimiz-
ing, curbing and guttering and side
walk contraction as far as II abuis
thereon, and in the case of streets
or alleys to the center thereof. And
in the case of street intersections
and crossing, the cost of grading,
paving, macadamizing, curbing or
guttering, as the case may be,
xhere it is not borne BY the city
shall be apportioned to the quarter
blocks abutting thereon. Provid-
ed however that the total amount
charged against any lot or parcel
of land shall not exceed twenty per.
centum Of its assessed value.
Sec. II. If the estimated cost of
the improvement shall exceed one
per centum of the assessed value of
the real property aforesaid then it
shall be provided by ordinance that
the assessment shall be paid in
successive annual iustallments, so
that no assessment shall in any one
year exceed more than one per
centum of the assessed value of
said real property. The ordinance
shall fix the amount of the assess.
ment which shall be collected each
year and shall fix the day in each
year when the assessment for the
year shall be paid. And the day
for the payment of of the first as.
sessment shall not be later than
sixty days from the date
of the ordnance making the assess
ment.
Sec. II. That the City Assessor
and Collector shall procure the as
sessment against each lot or parcel
of land in said improvement dist
rict, as made by the council and
extend the same upon the tax
books of said city, and shall within
sixty days from the date Of the or
dinance making the assessment, and
in the day specified in the ordi-