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shall qualify by taking an oath before any officer of said Montgomery
County, authorized by law to administer oaths, to diligently and faithfully
discharge all duties of office. Said committee shall select from their num-
bers a chairman, secretary-treasurer and any other officers they may deem
necessary.

1918, ch. 190, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 163.

670. Said Oakmont Citizens' Committee is empowered to grade, pave,
macadamize or otherwise improve any existing dedicated street, road or
lane, or any road, street or lane which has been or which may be acquired
and opened for public use, but which is ungraded, unpaved or unimproved,
and to lay sidewalks and curbs thereon; provided, that said Citizens'
Committee, subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners
and after due publication thereof, shall have power to assess the cost of said
grading, paving, macadamizing or improving against the property abut-
ting on said street, road, lane or sidewalk, in proportion to the frontage
of said abutting property on the same. Such lots platted as fronting on
already existing improved roads, lanes or streets, but which abut on such
streets or lanes as are to be improved under the provisions of this Act,
shall be assessed in accordance to benefits accruing from such new improve-
ments as are herein provided for, such benefits to be determined by one
member of the Board of County Commissioners, one member of the Oak-
mont Citizens' Committee and one resident of Montgomery County to
be chosen by aforesaid member of Board of County Commissioners and
member of Oakmont Citizens' Committee. All property acquired by the
Citizens' Committee under this section shall be held for the benefit of the
citizens of the said Oakmont subdivision.

Any tax so assessed as above provided in this section shall be payable
to the county treasurer in not less than eight annual installments nor more
than fifteen as nearly equal as may be, the first installment thereof to be-
come due and payable the first day of July next succeeding the making
of such special assessment as herein elsewhere provided, and to be collected
as county taxes in said county are collected, and any tax so assessed as pro-
vided in this section shall be subject to interest from said first of July
until paid, at the rate of six per cent, per annum. Each annual install-
ment shall become a lien against said abutting property and any such in-
stallment not paid by the first of January following its becoming due shall
be subject to the same penalties and shall be collected in the same manner
as provided for the collection of unpaid taxes in the said county. All
taxes assessed as provided in this section shall be paid over by the treas-
urer of said county to the treasurer of the Oakmont sub-division, who shall
devote such funds to the exclusive purpose of paying for the special im-
provements herein provided for or any indebtedness which may be in-
curred therefor.

Said Oakmont Citizens' Committee shall have the power to pave, grade,
macadamize or otherwise improve said streets, roads or lanes or sidewalks