The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-05-19
Street Improvement Ordinance No. 6.


An ordinance to provide for the i'm
provement of FIRST STREET, in
the town of Union City, Tennessee,
from the south limo of Lee street
to the north line of Palmer street
in said town, all of said street to
be improved by repairing, curbing,
guttering, draining. and paving
with asphaltic concrete, with
sheet asphalt, bitulithic, or rock
asphalt on concrete base; or
on gravel OF. stone Macadam base,
or on Telford base; or by paving
with concrete; and doing all
necessary work incident to said
street improvement pursuant to
Chapter IS of the Acts Of
the First Extra Session of the
Legislature of the State of Tennes-
see for the year 1913; to provide
for the maintenance or same pur-
suant to Chapter 121 of the Acts
of the Legislature of the State Of
Tennessee for the year 1919; and
to provide for the payment OF the
expenses thereof and the collection
of same so provided % 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 Legisla -ure 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 First
street in said town of Union City,
from the south line of Lee street
in said town of Union City, to the
north lire of Palmer street in the said
town of Union City, be improved by
repairing, curbing, guttering, drain
ing and paving all of said section of
said street with asphaltic concrete
sheet asphalt, bitulithic, or rock
asphalt on concrete base, or gravel
or stone Macadam base, or on Tel
ford base; or by paving with con-
crete; and doing all necessary work
incident thereto, and said section
of said street is hereby made an i'm
2rovement district for this purpose.
The said Board of Mayor and Alder
men reserve the right as provided ty
said statute to do all or any part Of
said improvement by labor hired by
the town of Union City, Tennessee,
and with material purchased as 9TH
er municipal purchases are made,
or to have said improvements done
by contract as provided in said stat
ute u.s.
This improvement shall include all
the work done on all street and alley
intersections between the terminals
of said improvements and said work
shall be included in and paid for as
a part of the said improvement.
SECTION 2. 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-
the year 1913.
SECTION 3. Be it further ordain-
ed that the Board of Mayor and AL
dermen may require from the contrac-
tor constructing the said work suff
Client and satisfactory guarantee to
maintain and keep in repair the
work done by him on the said street
for a period not exceeding three
years from the date of completion as
provided in Chapter 121 Of the Acts
of the Legislature of the State Of
Tennessee for the year 1919.
SECTION 4. Be it further ordain-
ed that the cost of the said improve
ment shall be borne as follows: Two
thirds of the cost of the said i'm
provements exclusive of intersections
shall be borne by the property abut
ting on the street improved; and
two-thirds of the cost of the improve
ment at each intersection shall be
borne by the property abutting on
the street improved and by the prop
erty abutting on the intersecting
street for Cne-half block n
every direction, all in direct pro-
portion to the frontage of the
sal d abutting properties, and
the property abutting on the said
street and on the intersecting streets
within the limits named is hereby
bound for two-thirds of the cost Of
said improvement; and a lien is here
by retained and declared to be in
effect from and after the date of con-
firmation of this ordinance, upon the
same to secure payment of its pro
rata share of the proper cost of said
improvement, including all costs of
engineering, printing, advertising,
clerical services, court costs, proper
ty damages, pavements, curbs, gut
tiers, 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
provements 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
aforementioned cost of improvement
as provided in Chapter 121 OF the
Acts of the Legislature of the State
of Tennessee for the year 1919.
SECTION s. Be it further ordain-
ed that the Recorder of the town OF
Union City is hereby directed to pub
lish a notice Of the adoption OF this
ordinance two consecutive times in
the Union City Commercial, news
paper Of general circulation pub
lished in the town of Union City,
Tennessee, and said notice shall no