The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-05-26
Street Improvement Ordinances Nos. 6,7,S
Street Improvement Ordinance No. Z

An Ordinance to provide for the i'm.
provement of Church street in
the town of Union City, Tennes.
see, from the west line of Second
street to the east line of Cemetery
section of said street to be i'm
proved by repairing, curbing, gut
tering,' draining and paving with
asphaltic concrete, with sheet as
phalt, bitulithic, or rock asphalt
on concrete base; or on gravel OF
stone Macadam base, or on Tel
ford base; or by paving with con-
crete; and doing all necessary
work incident to said street i'm
provement pursuant to Chap
ter IS of the Acts Of the First
Extra Session of the Legislature
of the State of Tennessee for the
year 1918; to provide for the
maintenance of the same pursuant
to Chapter 121 of the Acts of the
Legislature of the State of Tennes-
see for the year 1919; and to pro-
vide for the payment of the ex-
penses thereof and the collection
of same so provided by Chapter Is
of the Acts of the First Extra
Session of the Legislature of the
State of Tennessee for the year
1913, as amended by the Acts of
the Legislature for the State of
Tennessee for the year 1921.
SECTION /. Be it ordained by
the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of
Union City, Tennessee, that Church
street in said town of Union City,
from the west line of Second street
in said town of Union City to the
east line of Cemetery street in the said
town of Union City, be improved by
repairing, curbing, gutteriig, drain
ing and paving all of said sec
ton of said street, with asphaltic
concrete, sheet asphalt, bitulithic,
or rock asphalt on concrete base,
or on gravel or stone Macadam base,
or on Telford base; or by paving with
concrete; and doing all necessary
work incident thereto, and said Sec
ton of said street is hereby made an
district for this pur-
pose.
The said Board of Mayor and AL
dermen reserve the right as pro-
vided by said statute to do all or any
part of said improvement by labor
hired by the said town of Union City,
Tennessee, and with material pur-
chased as other municipal purchases
are made, or to have said improve
ments done by contract as provided
in said statute.
This improvement shall include
all the work done on all street and
alley intersections between the ter
minals of said improvements and
said work shall be included in and
paid for as part of the said improve
ment.
SECTION q. Be it further ordain-
ed, That the improvement designated
in Section One of this ordinance shall
be constructed under and by virtue
Of the power and authority given
said Board of Mayor and Aldermen
by said Chapter Is of the Acts of
The First Extra Session of the Legis
ature of the State of Tennessee for
he year 1918.
SECTION 3. Be it further ordain-
ed that the Board of Mayor and AL
1ermen may require from the con-
tractor constructing the said work a
sufficient and satisfactory guarantee
10 maintain and keep in repair the
work done by him on the said street
for period not exceeding three years
from the date of completion, as pro-
vided in Chapter 121 of the Acts of
he Legislature of the State of Ten
nessee for the year 1919.
SECTION 4. Be it further ordain-
I'd, That the cost of the said improve
nents shall be borne es follows: Two
thirds of the cost of the said i'm
exclusive of intersections
shall be borne by the property abut-
ting on the street improved; and
.wo-thirds of the cost of the improve
ment at each intersection shall be
borne by the property AUDITING on
the street improved and by the prop
erty AUDITING on the intersecting
street for one-half block in every di-
rection, all in direct proportion to the
frontage of the said AUDITING proper
ties, and the property abutting on
the said street and on the inter-
secting streets within the limits
named is hereby bound for
two-thirds of the cost of said
and lien is here
by retained and declared to be in
effect from and after the date of the
of this ordinance upon
the same to secure payment of its pro
rata share of the proper cost of said
including all costs of
printing, advertising,
clerical services, court costs, proper
ty damages, pavements, curbs, gut
ters, changes in sewers and water
pipes and drains or new ones, and
all items authorized to be embraced
in the cost of constructing said i'm
as defined in Chapter Is
Of the Acts of Tennessee at the First
Extra Session of the Legislature for
the year 1918, and the cost of the
said maintenance and repair guaran-
tee on the said street shall be borne
in like manner and proportion as the
cost of improvement
as provided in Chapter 121 of the
Acts of the Legislature of the State
of Tennessee for the year 1919.
SECTION 5. Be it further ordain-
cd That tho Recorder of the town of