The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-05-04
RESOLUTION
Designating Certain Steets
of Paris to Be Paved.
CITY HALL, PARIS, KY,
April &c, 1917.

April 20, 1917.
Be it Resolved by the Mayor and
Board of Council of the City of Paris
that the following streets of the City
tOf, Paris, Ky. shall be paved:
High Street from Broadway to Four
teenth Street;
! Main Street from Tenth Street to
Twentieth Street, and such improve.
merit is hereby declared to be a neces-
sity.
The said improvements shall be
made upon the following basis:
One-third of said cost and expense
shall be borne by the owners IF the
real estate abutting on one side OF such
Improvements. ard Cne-third shall be
borne By the owners o. real estate
3hUtjing on the ether side Of such i'm
pr0vements, and the remaining one
third shall be borne by the City Of
Paris. but where a street railway or
iEterU'Ta~ runs across, on or alOn3
any street to be improved, such streeU
railway or interuTban shall be requir-
ed to pay for so much paving on sucn
street as under its 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, it may
still recover from such interurban or
street railway its portion aforesaid
of the expense of such paving. But
such Railway Company shall have the
right to construct its own part of sucl.
-
do so no tax shall be assessed against
such company, provided. however, that
such company shall, before the letting
CT 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 it will
do the work of improving such part OF
the street with such material and &C
cording to such plans and specifica-
tons and within such time and sub
iect to such provisions as the Ordi-
nance therefor prescribed. The eX
pense to be borne by the AUDITING
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 !
civ shall also paw the cost of the !
of intersections with |
ether 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
inc to the city, and shall pay the costs
Of all improvements where adbuttinS
owner is public school. cemetery,
county, State or United States. Il
The cost to be borne by the abut-
ing property owners shall be appor-
toned among and assessed upon the
IT'S or parcels of real estate abutting
eet. II
Said improvements shall be made or
he ten year payment plan, subject to
III the terms and provisions of the act
lnder which this resolution is passed,
icing Chapter 113 of the Acts of Ken
ucky, of 1916.
]. T. HINTON,
Mayor of the City of Paris, KY.
.ttest:
]. w. HAYDEN, Clerk. :.