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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969-1166 ORDINANCE NO. I ( (,, AN ORDINANCE relating to Local Improvement Districts; specifying modes of payment for local improvements; providing for publica- tion of notice of assessments, manner of payment and amount of interest and penalties on unpaid assessments; limiting the term of bonds and the interest rate there- on, amending Sections8.12.080, 8.12.090, 8.12.100 and 8.12.130 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. • BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section.l. Section 8.12.080 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "8.12.080 Modes of Payment. There shall be two modes of making payment for such portion of the cost and expense of any improvement provided for in this chapter as shall be payable by special assessment, to wit: "Immediate Payment" and "Payment by Bonds ", provided, the City Council may, by ordinance, provide that the cost of an improvement be financed by an installment note in accordance with Section 35.45.150 of the Revised Code of Washington. The mode adopted for any improvement shall be the one which the City Council shall designate in the ordinance ordering such improvement." Section 2. Section 8.12.090 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: • "8.12.090 Mode of Immediate Payment -- Penalty for Delinquency. Whenever the cost and expense of any improvement shall be payable by the mode of "Immediate Payment" the City Treasurer shall upon receipt of the assessment roll publish a notice in the official daily newspaper of the City one time each week for two consecutive weeks that the roll is in his hands for collection and that any assessment thereon or any portion of any such assessment may be paid at any time within thirty days from the date of the first publication of said notice, without penalty, interest or costs, and that unless payment be made within such time, such assessment or unpaid portion thereof will become delinquent. Upon delinquency a penalty of 8 percent shall attach to and become a part of all such assessments. Delinquent assess- ments shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the City Council not to exceed 82 percent per annum until paid. Such delinquent assessments, with penalty and interest, shall be col- lected and the lien thereof shall be enforced in the manner pro- vided by law and the ordinances of the City of Yakima." Section 3. Section 8.12.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "8.12.100 Mode of Payment by Bonds -- Notice -- Delinquency. Whenever the cost and expense of any improvement shall be payable by the mode of "Payment by Bonds" or by an installment note, the City Treasurer shall publish a notice in the official daily newspaper of the City one time each week for two consecu- tive weeks that said roll is in his hands for collection and that the whole or any portion of any assessment levied on account of such improvement may be paid without penalty, interest or costs during the first thirty days following the date of the first publication of such notice, and the unpaid balance, if any, may be paid in equal annual installments, the number of which shall be less by two than the number of years which bonds or install- ment note issued to pay for the improvement may run; or, the lien of any such assessment may be discharged at any time after such thirty day period by paying the entire unpaid portion there- of together with all interest thereon to the date of delinquency next falling due, and together with any interest for delinquency and penalty which may also be due at the time such payment is lik made. The first installment shall become due and payable during the thirty day period succeeding a date one year after the date of first publication of such notice, and annually thereafter each succeeding installment shall become due and payable in like manner. If the whole or any portion of any assessment remains unpaid after the first thirty day period herein provided for, interest on the whole unpaid sum shall be charged at the rate fixed in the ordinance providing for such improvement, but not to exceed 81 per cent per annum, and each year thereafter one of such installments, together with the interest due upon the whole of the unpaid balance, shall be collected. Any installment not paid prior to the expiration of the thirty day period during which such installment is due and payable shall thereupon become delinquent. All delinquent installments shall, until paid, be subject to a charge for interest at the same rate as that charged on the unpaid assessment, and to an additional charge of 8 per- _ cent penalty levied upon such installment or installments." Section 4. Section 8.12.130 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code II I is hereby amended to read as follows: "8.12.130 Term of Bonds -- Interest. Bonds by their terms shall be made payable on or before a date not to exceed thirty years from and after the date of the issuance of such bonds, the term of which bonds shall be fixed by ordinance of the City Council. Such bonds shall bear interest at the rate provided by the ordinance ordering the improvement, but not exceeding 8 per- cent per annum, such interest to be payable annually. Each bond shall have attached thereto interest coupons for each interest payment." Section 5. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by !, law and by the City Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, si: -d and approved this 29th day of September, 1969. c d 7 ATTEST: Mayor City lerk