§ 26-169. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Assessed value means the value of the property abutting, adjoining, adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, the parkway, boulevard, or highway improved, and all improvements thereon, as fixed by the duly constituted authorities as the value of the same for the purposes of the county taxation for the current year.

Current year means the calendar year in which the lien is attached by law to the property.

Lots or parcels means all real estate by whomsoever owned or occupied within any improvement district authorized by this article, and shall include the right-of-way of any steam railroad, interurban railroad, electric railroad, tram road, toll road, or neutral strip of any street railroad or other railroad, whether the same crosses the parkway, boulevard or highway or lies in or contiguous and adjacent thereto, and also any street, alley, road or highway which may be temporarily closed or under lease.

The cost of making any such improvement and the expense of constructing such improvements mean every item of expense whatsoever, incurred by the county or county mayor, or paid out as a result of such improvement, and shall, in addition to all other items of cost or expense, be expressly held to include:

(1)

The cost of any property purchased, condemned, or otherwise acquired for the purpose of opening, extending, widening, establishing or improving any parkway, boulevard or highway and all court costs and every other charge incidental to such condemnation, purchase or acquisition.

(2)

The cost of removing, altering, or relaying any property or tracks of any person which the county is by existing contract or law required to remove, alter or relay.

(3)

The amount of damage paid as a result of injury to abutting or adjoining property, if any, by a change of grade or drainage, including all court costs and incidental expenses arising as a result of any proceedings had to ascertain and fix such damages.

(4)

The cost of any retaining walls, sidewalks or fences built or altered in lieu of cash payment for the damages to property or the acquisition thereof.

(5)

The cost to the county of all printing, advertising, clerical help, collection of funds, loss of interest on money advanced, engineering supervision, legal advice, stenographers, abstracts, plats, accountings, and in general, the expense of supervising, directing and controlling the work or improvement, which amounts need to be itemized and charged to the improvement, but may be ascertained by adding to the total of the sums which have been otherwise expended, ten percent of such sums otherwise expended, save the cost of acquiring any property necessary to the improvement, and such ten percent shall be held to be the amount of such unitemized sums expended on the improvements.

(6)

The cost of any bridge, viaduct, culvert, or other structure upon which any parkway, boulevard or highway is carried over any bayou, creek, river, drain or other obstruction.

(7)

The cost of improving the entire parkway, boulevard or highway, including that portion of intersecting roads, streets, alleys, or highways lying between the boundaries or sidelines of the parkway, boulevard or highway improved, when such intersections are improved in like manner, with the rest of the parkway, boulevard or highway, so as to make a continuous thoroughfare of one kind or character.

(8)

The cost of moving or altering any store or other structure where such removal or alteration is made necessary by change of the parkway, boulevard or highway improved.

(Code 1992, § 25-211; Priv. Acts 1925, ch. 423, § 19)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction, § 1-2.