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Ordinance 0188101 Z-x �/- OEAIT410E E O . 188. An Ordinarce amending Ordinance lo..177 of the City of Edmonds State of Washingtor:, ertitled, "An Ordinance providing the manner OIL making local improvements within_ the City of Edmonds, and the manner it which special assessments therefor may be made and collected on property specially benefited thereby, and the mode of payir_g for the same. The City Coureil of the City of Edmonds do ordain as f ollows: SECTION: 1: That Sectior 6 of Ordinance Lo.177 of the City of Edmonds, State of Washington, entitled "An Ordinance providing the manner of makin6 local improvements within the City of Edmonds, and the manner in which special assessmerts therefor may be made and collected or property specially benefited thereby, and the modes of paying for the same". Passed and approved April 1st, 1909, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Sectior 6. Such Ordinance shall provide that such improvement -J-6-6 shall be made, and that the cost and experse thereof shall be taxed,015�- and assessed upon all the property i-. _1-:ch local improvement dis- trict which cost shall be assessed in proportion to the benefits derived by said improvement. SECTIOp 2: That Section 7 of said ordinance ho.177 be, ar.d the same is hereby amended to read as follows: y� Section 7. The cost and expense of all improvement in the _fie p space formed by the junctior of two or more streets, or where ore main street terminates in or crosses ar•other main street, and the expenses of establishing, building and repairing bridges, or any part thereof, may, at the option of the Council, be paid by the City of Edmor..ds, or may be assessed against the property in said improve- ment district as the Council -shall provide in its resolution de- claring its intention to make such improvement. SECTI01 3: That Sectior 15 of said Ordinance lo.177 be, and the same is hereby amerded to read as follows: Section 15. The City Treasurer shall be charged with the total amount of the levy therein made against the property in said �E improvemert district. 'Said Treasurer shall publish a notice in the p �� official paper of Edmonds, that he has received such assessment roll for collection describing the date of the final levy, and the im- provemert district within which the property in said roll contained, is located ar_d that unless the same is paid within thirty (30) days, from the date or which said notice is published, the same will be declared delinquent and certified to the County Treasurer of Sno- homish County in said State as provided by the laws of the State of Washington. A printed copy of said notice with the affidavit of the publisher of said official newspaper in which the same is pub- lished showing the date of publication and that said copy is a true copy of said notice and publication, shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk, by the Treasurer, at the time of making his return as herein_ provided. SECTIOT 4: That Section 17 of said Ordinance Eo.177 be, and the same, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 17. At ary time after the expiration_ of thirty days,_L.� from the date of the publication of the notice provided in Section p 9/3 15 of this Ordinance, the Council may by resolution declare said assessment delirquer_t and authorize the City Treasurer to certify the same to the County Treasurer of Srohomish County, State of Washington. Wherever such resolution shall have beer passed the Treasurer shall enter upon said assessment roll that all descrip- tiors of lards and lots in said roll contained, rot marked "paid" are urpaid and are delinquent and that he has collected the amounts marked "paid" and no more. Sl]CTI01, 5: That Section 18 of said Ordinance no.177 be,and the same, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sectior_ 18. Whenever such resolution shall have been passed,,j-,ee by the Council, declaring said assessment delinquent and direct- )99 3 ing the same to be certified to the County Treasurer, the City Treasurer shall make a delinquent assessment roll which roll shall 102 contain the descriptionsof all property which are not marked "paid" upon the original roll together with the delinquent assessment chargeable against each such descriptior of property and the rame of the owner or owners, if known, and shall within ten days after the passage of said resolution certify the same together with the original assessmert roll to the County Treasurer of Snohomish County, State of Washington for collection. SECTIOE 6: Than Section 19 of said Ordinance No.177 be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 19. The City Attorney shall bring all suits or actions against the proper parties for the foreclosure of ary certificates of delinquency which may be issued to the City of Edmonds for such delinquent taxes and assessments, and shall prosecute the same to final determination, unless the Council shall, by resolution, di- rect otherwise. SECTIOL 7: That Section 20 of said Ordinance ro.177, the same, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 20: Tho City Attorney shall pay all marey by collected under the provisions of this Ordinance into the Treasury, and the City Treasurer shall receipt therefor in sate. be, and him' City tripli- SECTIOI 8: That Section 30 of said Ordinance ho.177 be, and the same, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 30. In making an estimate of the cost and_egperse of 4 any improvement, as provided in this Ordinance, the Council shall include thereir the estimated cost and expense of the necessary ergireering and surveying for said improvement to be done by the City Engineer; and also the cost and expense of ascertairing the ownership of the lots and tracts of land included it said improve- ment district; and also the cost of advertisirg and publishing all r_otices to be published, and also the amount of interest which may become due or any Watrart or Bond issued in payment for such im- provement. SECTIOE 9: That Section 32 of said Ordir_arce Lo.177 be, and ,,,,rybthe same, is hereby mended to read as follows: Section 32. In paymert of any part of the improvement to the Contractor making such improvement, the City may issue Warrants from time to time as the work progresses upor the special improve- ment fund, which shall bear irterest at the rate of fifteen (15) percent. per annum from the date of the delinquency of the assess- ment. Provided that no Warrant shall bear such interest for a longer period thar such time as there shall rot be sufficient funds in such local improvement fund to meet such outstanding Warrants. Passed by the Council August 19th, 1909. Approved by me this 19th day of August 1909. Attest: Geo-L.Leyda, Clerk. James Brady, -Kayor. I, Geo-YI.Leyda, City Clerk, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance lo- 188, passed by the Council on August 19th, 1909, is a true and correct copy. Geo-Y..Leyda, Clerk.