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Tit. XIII, Ch. 23. STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND SEWERS. §§ 3889-3913-
SEC. 3889. Levy of assessment—installments.
1 The special assessments made in said plat and schedule, as cor-
2 rected and approved, shall be levied at one time, by ordinance or reso-
8 lution, against the property abutting on such street improvement _or
4 sewer, and, in case of sewers, upon adjacent property, and, when levied
5 and certified, shall be payable at the office of the county treasurer.
6 If the owner of any lot or parcel of land or railway or street railway,
7 the assessment against which is embraced in any bond or certificate
8 provided for in chapter twenty-six, title thirteen, shall, within thirty
9 days from the date of such assessment, promise and agree in writing,
10 indorsed on such bond or certificate, or in a separate agreement, that,
11 in consideration of having the right to pay his assessment in install-
12 ments, he will not make any objection of illegality or irregularity as
13 to the assessment or levy of such tax upon and against his property,
14 and will pay said assessment with interest thereon at such rate, not
15 exceeding six per cent per annum, as shall by ordinance or resolution
16 of the council be prescribed, such tax so levied against the lot or
17 parcel of land or railway or street railway of such owner shall be
18 payable in ten equal installments, the first of which, with interest on
19 the whole assessment from date of acceptance of the work by the city
20 council, shall mature and be payable on the date of such assessment,
21 and the others, with interest on the whole amount unpaid, annually
22 thereafter, at the same time and in the same mariner as the March
23 semiannual payment of ordinary taxes; but where no such promise
24 and agreement in writing shall be made by the owner of any lot or
25 parcel of land or railway or street railway within said time, then the
26 whole of said special assessment so levied upon and against the prop-
27 erty of such owner shall mature at one time, and be due and payable,
28 with interest from the date of acceptance of the work by the city
29 council, on the date of such assessment, and shall be collected at the
30 next succeeding March semiannual payment of ordinary taxes. All
31 such taxes with interest shall become delinquent on the first day of
32 March next after their maturity, and shall bear the same interest,
33 with the same penalties, as ordinary taxes.
[C, '97, § 825; S., '13, § 825; 39 G. A., ch. 255, § 1.]
SEC. 3912. Paving or graveling highways leading into cities.
1 Cities having a population of two thousand or more, shall have
2 power to construct paved or graveled roadways along such streets,
3 avenues or highways within said cities as, in the judgment of the city
4 councils thereof, constitute main traveled ways into and out of such
5 cities, and to repair, improve and reconstruct the same, all as herein-
6 after provided.
[S. S., '15, § 840-h; 39 G. A., ch. 138, § 1.]
SEC. 3913. Paving districts—assessments—limitation.
1 Such cities shall have power to establish districts to embrace such
2 portions of said cities as, in the judgment of the city councils thereof.
3 will receive special benefits from the construction, repair, improve-
4 ment, or reconstruction of such paved or graveled roadways, to change
5 the boundaries of same from time to time as may become in the judg-
6 ment of such councils, just and equitable and to assess so much of the
7 cost of such paved or graveled roadways against all lots or tracts of