The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-05-28
AN ORDINANCE

struction of Permanent Improve
ments of the Streets and Sidewalks
of the Town Of Manning, and the
Payment Therefor.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Councilmen of the Town of Manning
IN Council assembled:
Sec. l. That such streets and side
walks or parts thereof of the Town of
Manning as Council may from time
to time deem cXpedient and by reso-
luton direct, shall be paved with last
ing paving material, and when peti-
ton has been filed as is provided for
IN Section 2 hereof, such resolution
sha!l in terms prescribed that such
paving be met by a specific appro-
priatlon, which shall be at least one
half of the cost thereof by the Town
or Manning, and the remainder shall
be charged against abutting property
owners on such streets or sidewalks
as hereinafter declared Provided,
mat where a portion Of such i'm
provemsnts shall be done or paid for
at the cost of any railroad, street
rallway or other corporation, the
Town and the abuttin9 property own
arS shall divide between them the
3oSt OF only the remaining portion in
the proportions as above prescribed:
Ard. provided, further, That where
the portion paved includes street
crossing, the abutting property on
contiguous blocks shall not be charged
with any part of the cost Of paving
such street crossing.
Sec. z. That whenever wo-thirds
or more in number Of the owners OF
abuttmg property on any street or
definite portion of street shall de-
slra the paving of the street, side
walk or both, Of such street or por-
tion of street, they may file with the
Clerk Of Council q petition in writ
ing signed by them requesting such
pav!n%. Within the meaning OF this
Ordinance the phrase "abutting prop
erty' shall as to sidewalks include
only the property on one side of the
street, but both sides as TO the other
part of the street.
Sec. 3. If such petition be grant
ed 1t shall be filed as permanent
record with the Town Clerk, and the
Town Council shall appropriate and
set apart its portion Of the cost of
such improvements, which. together
with payments made by owners or
holders Of abutting property, shall be
kept separate from other funds and
used only for the payment of such
improvement, and Council shall by
resolution assess the remaining por-
ton OF such cost upon the several
abutting property on such street or
sidewalk IN proportion to the front
age of the several lots OF land there
on.
Sec: 4. That the payment by or
Tor the owners or holders Of the
sad several lots of such assessments
so laid upon the abutting property
Shall be paid in cash at the COM
mencemcNt of the work, or at such
times and in such installmcnts, not
extending over period of more than
ten (lO) years, as may be scverallv
agreed upon between them and the
'iown Council: Provided, That all
deferred payments shall bear inter
est not to exceed seven (7) per cent
per annum, payable annually from
;hc date when work was commenced,
and all assessments so laid upon
abuttng property shall constitute a
len upon the lots Of land so abutting
from the entry thereof of the assess
mcnts IN the book hereinafter pro-
vlded for until fully paid, as provided
m section" Of an Act of the General
assembly of this State entitled "An
w ,'u.''o' i"S .iic SltleS Ol tOlum-
bia and Grccnvillc and the Town Of
Manning to lay and enforce an assess
Ment upon abutting property owners
Tor the purpose of paving for perman-
mt improvements on its streets and
5ldewalks," approved February II.
1911.
Sec. 5. There shall be kept in the
oiice of the Clerk of Council as a
permanent record book to be called
Assessment Liens" in which shall
be entered by streets and blocks under
appropriate heads the following