Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-05-13
AN ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE
Providing for an Assessment Upon
Abutting Property Owners for the
Purpose of Paying for Permanent
Improvements on Streets and Side
walks, and Providing for the Manner
of Payment of Such Assessments.
DE it Ordained by the Mayor and AL
- dermen, constituting the Town
Council Of the Town of York:
Section l.. An election having been
heretofore held on the 30th day of
April, 1919, in which the Town OF
York voted affirmatively upon the
question Of whether or not the said
Town should come under the provi-
sions of an Act entitled, IAN Act to
Authorize any or all Incorporated Cities
and Towns within the State to levy and
enforce an Assessment upon Abutting
Property Owners for the purpose OF
paying for permanent improvements
on their streets and Sidewalks approx
ed the 18th day Of March, A. D., 1919.
that it is fact, and 1t is hereby re-
cited as such a fact, that two-thirds or
more in number Of the owners of the
property abutting upon the streets and
sid ewalks, or parts Of either, proposed
to be improved, have filed with the
Town Clerk their written consent for
an assessment upon the abutting prop
erty owners Of not less than one-half
of the cost Of such improvements.
Section 2. That the Town Of York
will by contract hereafter to be let,
erect and construct permanent streets
and sidewalks upon the following
streets and portions thereof in the
said town of York, to wit, on that por-
at. hnO In
ming at the corporate limits Of the
Town and running South to the inter-
section of Kings Mountain Street with
Lincoln and Congress Streets; and that
portion of Lincoln Street beginning at
a point where said Street crosses the
lC. & NV. Ry track, and running
south to where Lincoln Street inter-
sects with Kings Mountain and Con-
gress Streets; on Charlotte Street upon
its intersection with Lincoln Street
Eastward to where said street makes
an abrupt turn to the North in the rear
of the property Of j. R. Lindsay; on
Wright Avenue from its intersection
with Kings Mountain Street to its in
tersection with West Madison Street;
on West Madison Street from the in
tersection of Wright Avenue Eastward
to its intersection with Congress Street,
or Main Street, and thence on East
Madison Street to point where this
Street crosses the c. & NV. Railway
track; en- West Liberty Street from
point a short distance West Of the
County Jail Eastward to Congress or
Main Street; and thence on East Lib
erty Street from Congress Street East
ward to the town limits; and on Col
lege Street from East Liberty to East
Jefferson Street; on West Jefferson
Street from the intersection Of Cleve-
land Avenue Eastward to Main or
Congress street, and on East JEFF
ferson Street from Main or Con-
gress Street to the tracks of the South
ern Railway Company; on Cleveland
Avenue from West Jefferson Street to
California Street; ON Main or Congress
Street from its intersection with Lin
coin and Kings Mountain Streets
Southwark to a point a short distance
South of the old depot Of the c. & NJ
w. Railway Company, to where a street
turns at right angles across the c.
NV. Railway tracks; and on this last
named street from Congress Street
across the tracks Of the c. & NV.
Railway to a point where Chester
Street turns abruptly to the South.
Section g. To defray in part the
cost of the construction of such per-
manent streets and sidewalks, the
owners of property abutting upon such
streets, or parts of such streets, are
hereby assessed one-half of the cost OF
such permanent streets and sidewalks,
each property owner on each side or
said streets to be assessed one-fourth
of the cost of such permanent streets.
and each property owner be assessed
one half the cost Of the permanent
sidewalk directly and Immediately
abutting his property.
Section 4. That the property owners
hereby assessed and to be assessed
shall pay their assessment in the fol-
lowing manner and at the following
time, that is to say: One-fifth thereof
whenever demanded by the town, and
the remaining four-fifths in four equal
annual installments (the last four in
stallments to be due and payable In
one, two, three and four years, re-
spectively, from the date upon which
the first payment is demandedO all
deferred payments to bear interest at
rate not exceeding seven per cent per
annum, payable annually; with the
privilege to the assessed property own
er of paying his entire assessment, or
any part thereof, at any time before
the same is due hereunder.
Section 5. That the amounts of
money raised by such assessments, to-
gether with the amounts added thereto
by the Town Of York, shall constitute
and be kept as a separate fund, and
shall be used only for the purpose of
constructing permanent streets and
icewalks in the Town Of York.
Section 6. That the assessments so
laid shall constitute and be lien upon
the property so assessed, and the pay
mont of said assessment may be en-
forced as the payment Of town taxes
are now enforced, provided such as
sessment shall be entered in a book
kept by the Town Clerk, to be entitled
Assessment Liens, stating the names
Of the owners, the location Of the prop
erty, and the amount Of the assess
ment, and the time or times of pay
ment And provided further, that
such liens shall continue from the date
of entry on such book until the expi-
ration Of five years from the date when
final payment is due and payable, un-
less sooner paid. Upon default in the
payment CT any installment or deferred
portion of any assessment, at the time
| and in accordance with the terms and
conditions fixed by this Ordinance, the
total amount Of such assessment then
unpaid (including deferred install
ments and interest) shall Immediately
become due and collectible as Town
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