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ORDINANCE NO. B -1171
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AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of certain property by grading, ballasting,
surfacing and constructing ,concrete curbs and gutters; establishing a
Local Improvement District'; providing for the method of payment therefor,
and creating a special fund. ; •
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That Sixth Avenue South from Lenox Avenue to Viola Avenue and
Fifteenth Avenue South from Lenox Avenue to Prasch Avenue, in the City, of Yakima, shall
be improved by grading, ballasting, surfacing and constructing concrete curbs and
gutters, and to be constructed in full accordance with the plans; and specifications -
prepared by the City Engineer and' filed with the City Clerk. The property to be bene-
fited by this improvement consists of the following:
Beginning at the intersection of Sixth Avenue South and Lenox Avenue;
thence easterly along Lenox Avenue to a point midway between Sixth
Avenue South and Fifth Avenue South; thence southerly and parallel
with Sixth Avenue South to Viola Avenue; thence westerly along Viola
Avenue to.a point midway between Sixth Avenue South and Cornell
. Avenue; thence northerly and parallel with Sixth Avenue South to
Lenox Avenue; thence easterly along Lenox Avenue to the point of
beginning; also .
Beginning at the intersection of Fifteenth Avenue South with Lenox
Avenue; thence easterly along Lenox Avenue to a point midway between
Fifteenth Avenue south and Fourteenth Avenue South. thence
and parallel with Fifteenth Avenue South. to Prasch' Avenue; thence
westerly along Prasch Avenue to a point midway between Fifteenth Avenue
South and•Sixteenth Avenue South; thence northerly - and.parallel with
Fifteenth Avenue South to Lenox Avenue; thence easterly along Lenox
Avenue to the point of beginning.
Section 2. There is hereby created a Local Improvement District to ,be
called Local Improvement District No. 706, which said district shall include all of
the property described and set forth in Section 1 hereof. .
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Section 3. All of the cost and expense in connection with the making
and .construction of said improvement, including the test and expense of engineering,,
inspection, advertising, publication of notices and all other expenses incident
thereto, shall be levied and . assessed upon all of the property embraced within said
Local Improvement District in accordance with the special benefits conferred thereon,
in the manner provided by the laws of the State of Washington and the Ordinances of
the City of Yakima; and said City shall not be liable in any manner for any portion
of said cost and expense of said improvement. .
Section 4. All of the aforesaid construction work shall be in accordance
with.the plans, profiles, specifications, maps and detailed drawings which have been
prepared by the City Engineer, filed with the City Clerk and which are hereby approved
and adopted.
Section 5. All of the work necessary to be done in connection with the
making of said improvement shall be done and made by contract upon competitive bids
and the City shall have the power to reject any and all bids.
Section 6. There is hereby created a special fund to be called "Local
Improvement Fund, District No. 706 ", into which shall be placed all sums paid on
account of the aforesaid special assessments, including all interest and penalties
thereon; and, in the event of the sale of Local Improvement Bonds by this City, all
premiums and interest on said bonds issued for said improvement.
Section 7. Bonds bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, on or before, 12 years from date of issuance, shall be issued in payment of the
cost and expense of said improvement, which bonds shall be redeemed by the collection
of special assessments to be levied and assessed upon the property within said district,
payable in 10 equal annual installments, with interest at the rate. of 4 per cent per
annum, interest payable annually, under the mode of "payment by bonds" as defined by
the statutes of the State of Washington and the Ordinances of the City of Yakima.
Section 8. This ordinance is one relating to local improvements or
assessments therefor, and shall become effective immediately upon its passage,
approval and publication as provided by City Charter.
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PASSED BY THE CI TY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 25th day of
September, 1950.
ATTEST: PEARL BENHAMIN (S E A L) .
G. W. BURNS
City clerk Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
Ordinance No. B-1171 entitled: "AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of
certain property by grading, ballasting, surfacing and constructing concrete curbs
and gutters; establishing a Local Improvement District, providing for the method of
payment therefor, and creating a special fund." as passed on this 25th day of
September, 1950, and that same has been published as required by law.
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CCITY i CLERK