The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-05-26


| to time all persons whose property
may be affected by such improve
ment or improvements, may appear
in person or by attorney, or by a
petition, and protest against the
making of the said improvements,
the material to be used or the man
ner of making same. And said Board
shall consider such objections and
protests, if any, and may confirm,
amend, modify or rescind such orig
inal ordinance. Failure to object or
protest at the time of confirmation
of the original ordinance shall con-
stitute a waiver of any and all irreg-
ularities, omissions and defects in
the proceedings taken prior to such
time.
SECTION 6. Be it further ordain-
ed, That the City Engineer, or such
other person as may be secured for
this purpose on or before said date,
is hereby ordered to prepare full de-
tails, drawings, plans, specifications
and surveys of said work, and esti-
mates of the cost thereof and to file
the same with the City Recorder.
And said plans, specifications and
estimates shall be subject to the in
spection of any property owner in
terested at any time within office
hours of said Recorder.
SECTION T. Be it further ordain-
ed, That the owners Of all AUDITING
real estate are hereby ordered to con-
meet their several premises with wa
ter mains and sewers located in the
street adjacent to their several prem
Uses, and upon the default of such
owners for thirty days after such or
der to make connection, the
said Board of Mayor and AL
dermen may contract for and make
connections aforesaid at such dis
tances under such regulations and
in accordance with such specifica-
lions as may be prescribed by the
said Board of Mayor and Aldermen
and the whole cost of each connec-
tion shall be assessed against the
premises with which the connection
is made.
SECION s. Be it further ordain-
ed, That after the completion of the
work of this improvement, the Board
of Mayor and Aldermen shall pro-
coed to assess two-thirds of the cost
of said improvements, exclusive Of in
tersections against the property abut-
ting on the street improved, and two
thirds of the cost of the i'm
provement of each intersection
against the property AUDITING on
the street improved and against the
abutting on the intersecting
street for one-half block in every di
rection, in direct proportion to the
frontage of the said abutting prop
critics; and when such assessment
shall have been completed shall di-
rect the City Recorder to publish in
the Union City Commercial a notice
that such assessment list has been
and is on file in the office
Of the City Recorder, and may be in
spected during the hours that the
said office is open for business. Said
publication shall not fy all persons
that the Board of Mayor and Alder
men will meet on a date there
in named, not less than ten days after
the publication of the said notice to
consider written objections or defense
to the proposed assessment or the
amount thereof. On the date named
in the notice, or such date as said
meeting may be adjourned to, the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen shall
consider said assessment and the
written objections thereto, and shall
confirm, modify or set aside said as
sessment as shall be deemed right
and proper. If no objections to the
pro rata or the amount thereof is
filed, or if the property owner fails
to appear in person or by attorney,
and insist upon the same, the assess
ment shall be made final and the own
ers who do not file objections / writ
ing or protest against the same, shall
be held to have consented to the S. me,
and to be forever barred to attack
the regularity, validity or legality of
such assessment.
SECTION 8. Be it further ordain-
ed, That all assessments levied under
this ordinance for the purposes here
in specified shall be due and payable
within thirty days after said assess
ment is made final, as herein
provided, but at the election of a
property owner, by an agreement in
writing with said town OF Union City,
that in consideration of such privi-
lege he will make no objection to
any illegality or irregularity with
regard to the assessment against his
PROPERTY, and will pay the same as
required Ly law, with the specified
interest, said assessments may be
paid in ten annual installments, and
shall bear interest at the rate of six
per cent per annum, interest payable
and such agreement
shall be filed with the City Recorder.
In all cases where such agreement has
not been signed and filed within the
time limited the entire assessment
shall be paid in cash, without inter-
est, before the expiration of said
thirty days.
SECTION 10. Be it further ordain-
ed, That any property owner who
shall have elected to pay his assess
ments in ten annual installments
shall have the right and privilege of
paying up the assessments in full at
any installment period by paying the
full amount of the installments, to-
gether with all accrued interest, and
an additional sum equal to one-half
the annual interest thereon.
SECTION IL. Be it further or
dained, That if any property owner
make default in the payment of any
installment and interest thereon, all
of said installments with interest
and an additional sum equal to one
half the annual interest shall become