104 ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY and all other expenses attending the issue of same, and the total amount thereof shall be assessed equally by the feet front upon the property fronting or abutting or bordering upon said improvement. In case when same is undertaken under the provisions of section 3572 and for the purpose of this amendment, the intersection of streets and crossings adjoining shall be added to the cost of improvement, to be paid by the property holders abutting the property improved. All property fronting or abutting or bordering upon said improvement belonging to the city shall be considered and assessed as property belonging to individuals, and the assessment thereon may be paid in the same manner by the city out of the general fund and charged to the "street improvement fund” as is paid by individuals, or the city may pay said assessment out of the proceeds realized from premiums on sale of street improvement bonds and take same out of the street improvement fund, also in case the city shall assume the payment of any portion of the improvement other than against property owned by the city fronting or abutting said improvement, the city may settle for such amount assumed by it in the same manner as prescribed for settling for any assessment against any property belonging to the city. The astion completed. sessment shall be made as soon as the improvement is fully completed, and the sum assessed which shall include the cost of the intersection and crossings aforesaid, together with the cost attending the sale and issue of said bond as aforesaid against each piece of property and also the owners thereof, shall be placed upon the tax list of the city, and shall be payable at the office of the city treasurer in ten equal annual installments with interest at the rate specified in said bonds upon the unpaid portion thereof. The first installment, together with interest on the whole amount at rate specified shall be payable at the first payment of taxes next succeeding the time the assessment is placed upon the tax list, the interest to be Assessment to be made when construc computed to the date that taxes are due and payable and the other installments annually thereafter and always at the time of payment of the other city taxes, with interest on the installments not due at the time until all installments are paid. The assessment may be collected like other taxes, or the city may, at any time, after one installment remains delinquent for thirty days, by suit in equity, enforce its lien for all of the unpaid installments, with interest thereon to date of satisfaction of same, and its cost expended. The city treasurer and the city collector shall not be entitled to receive any compensation whatever for their services in collecting taxes provided for in this amendment nor for any other services performed under this amendment unless the city council see (proper, by ordinance, to make them, or either of them a specific allowance therefor, which shall only be done by a vote of two-thirds of the members elect of said council. provided. 105 The city council may provide a sinking fund to Sinking Fund meet any deficit that may occur in the "Street Improvement Fund" by reason of property owners not paying their assessments when due, and any money remaining in said sinking fund, or which may not be needed for the purpose it was created, may be transferred to the general fund. § 5. WHEREAS, This act will save a great deal of Emergency. money in the cost of construction of streets, an emer gency is declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved March 24, 1908. CHAPTER 41. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3646 of the Kentucky Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Conmonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section three thousand six hundred and forty-six of the Kentucky Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted, so that when so amended and re-enacted, it will read as follows: Section 3646. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent any city having an indebtedness existing prior to September twentyeight, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one from levying and collecting such taxes for the payment of such indebtedness and the interest thereon, as are provided for in such laws, in addition to the taxes herein authorized to be levied and collected. Such city council shall have the right to issue renewal or funding bonds in payment of the bonded and floating debt of any such city, existing at the date of the passage of this act: Provided, That the issual of said renewal and funding bonds shall not exceed the principal of said bonded and floating debt, nor bear interest exceeding six per cent per annum, and said renewal and funding bonds shall not be sold for less than par and accrued interest. Upon the issuance of said bonds such city shall annually carry to a sinking fund an amount sufficient to pay the annual interest on said bonds, and create a fund for their purchase from time to time, or redemption at maturity. All moneys received from licenses, poll tax and from fines, penalties and forfeitures for violations of ordinances or by-laws, shall be paid into the general fund. Approved March 24, 1908. CHAPTER 42. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act to amend Section 4315, Kentucky Statutes, being Chapter 110 of the Kentucky Statutes," approved March 21, 1906. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Road work; § 1. That section four thousand, three hundred and fifteen of the Kentucky Statutes, approved, (amended) March 21, 1906, be amended by striking out all of the words in said section, beginning with the words “At the Court House door" in the third line of said section and ending with the words "At all times in good order for travel and transportation" in the twentysecond line of said section and substituting in lieu thereof the following, "Or if there is no supervisor, the County Judge to advertise for fifteen days in succession in some newspaper of general circulation how to be let. in his county or by written or printed notices posted up in three or more conspicuous places in each voting place in said county just preceding the regular monthly meeting of the Fiscal Court in April in each year, that the Fiscal Court will receive bids to let out to the lowest and best bidder (who shall give bond with surety approved by said Court) the working and keeping in repair of all roads in said county for a term of not less than one or more than four years, not however including in such letting, roads previously contracted for. The said work shall be done as prescribed in bonds of contractors, the Fiscal Court reserving the right to annul any and all contracts, with contractors when the terms of the contract are not fully. complied with. The Fiscal Court shall also let out at such times Bridge work. 1 Bids, how received for road work. needed and on reasonable (printed or written) notice, And by adding after the word "Oversee" in the So that section, when amended, will read as follows: § 4315. Supervisor-Duty and Power of Letting Roads to Contractor-Fiscal Court-County JudgeIn counties wherein roads are worked by taxation, it shall be the duty of the supervisor, or if there is no supervisor, the County Judge, to advertise for fifteen days in succession in some newspaper of general circulation in his county or by written or printed notices posted up in three or more conspicuous places in each voting place in said county just preceding the regular monthly meeting of the Fiscal Court in April in each year, that the Fiscal Court will receive bids to let out to the lowest and best bidder (who shall give bond with surety approved by said Court) the working and keeping in repair of all roads in said county for a term of not less than one nor more than four years, not however including in such letting, roads previously contracted for. The said work shall be done as prescribed in bonds of contractors, the Fiscal Court reserving the right to annul any and all contracts made with con |