The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-05-08
RESOLUTION
Designating Certain Steets
of Paris to Be Paved.
CITY HALL, PARIS, Ky.

April 26, 1917.
Be it Resolved by the Mayor and
Board of Council of the City OF Paris
that the following streets of the CITY
of Paris, KY, shall be paved:
High Street from Broadway TO -Four.
Iteenth Street;
Main Street from Tenth Street to
Twentieth Street, and such improve.
ment is hereby declared to be a neees-
sity.
The said improvements shall be
made upon the following basis:
One-third of said cost and expense
shall be borne by the owners OF the
real estate abutting on one side OF such
improvements, and one-third shall be
borne by the owners Of real estate
AUDITING on the other side of such I'M
rrovements, and the remaining one
third shall be borne by the City OF
Paris, but where a street railway or
| interurban runs across, on or along
any street to be improved. such street
railway or interurban shall be requir-
ed to pay for so much paving on sucrf
street as under it's franchise and grant
from the City it is required to build.
keep up and maintain. and the portion
! to be borne by the City shall be re-
duced by the portion which is to be
borne by such interurban or street
railway, and in the event the City pays
for 1-3 of such improvements, 10 may
still recover from such interurban or
street railway it's portion aforesaid
of the expense of such paving. But
such Railway Company shall have the
right to construct its own part of such
proposed improvement, and il it shall
do so no tax shall be assessed against
such company, provided, however, that
such company shall, before the letting
of the contract for such improvements
elect by written request presented to
/ the Board of Council, to construct its
part of such improvement, and shall
execute a bond to the City with good
and sufficient surety to be approved
/ by the Mayor conditioned that 1t will
do the work of improving such part OF
| the street with such material and ac-
cOrding to such plans and specifica-
/ tions and within such time and sub
/ ject to such provisions as the ordi-
nance therefor prescribed. The ex-
pense 10 be borne by the abutting
property. owners is in addition to the
the cost of any pavements or curbins
which the property owners are requir
ed to pay exclusively.
| In addition to the proportion of the
expense of the improvements to be
borne by the City above set out, the
City shall also pay the cost of the
improvements Of intersections with
other public ways, including one
half of the width of the street or alley.
being improved, besides other streets
or alleys which run into, but do not
cross the street or alley so being i'm
proved, and of that proportion OF any
street abutting upon property belong
ing to the city, and shall pay the costs
/ of all improvements where adbuttinS
owner is public school, cemetery.
county, State or United States.
! The cost TO be borne by the abut-
/ ting property owners shall be appor-
toned among and assessed upon the
lots or parcels of real estate abutting
+ feet
/ Said improvements shall be made on
the ten year payment plan, subject to
all the terms and provisions of the act
under which this resolution is passed.
being Chapter 113 of the Acts of Ken
lucky, of 1916.
]. T. HINTON,
Mayor of the City of Paris, Ky.
Attest:
]. w. HAYDEN, Clerk.