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parking facilities.

(b)  The special assessment hereby authorized shall be levied annually at a rate
not to exceed One Dollar ($1.00) per $100.00 of assessed valuation.

(c)  The boundaries of any special assessment district established hereunder to
provide off-street parking facilities may be established by Ordinance or Resolution
of the Council of the Town of Easton shall determine. No special assessment
district shall be established unless prior to the final passage of such Ordinance or
Resolution, public notice is given by notice inserted in two successive issues of a
newspaper published in the Town of Easton, the last issue of which shall be
published within ten days of the day on which a hearing is held by the Town of
Easton. This notice shall further include a description of the boundaries of the
special assessment district proposed, the time and place of the hearing to be held
thereon, a statement of the special assessment proposed to be levied as well as a
statement of the class of properties exempt from said levy, if exemption is
proposed.

(d)  The Council of the Town of Easton may exempt from the levy hereby
authorized properties as follows:

1.  Properties used for residential purposes only which provide one "off-street"
parking space for each family.

2.  Properties furnishing off-street parking facilities equal to the requirements of
any zoning ordinance or any Off-street Parking Ordinance or Resolution passed in
pursuance of the authority hereby granted.

(e)    The special assessment hereby provided shall constitute a lien against the
respective properties upon which levied until paid, and bear interest in the same
manner as all other town, real estate ad valorem taxes; any levy made hereunder
shall be considered as being made for the purpose of servicing municipal bonds and
shall not be used for general revenue purposes, and shall not be included in any
computation of any limitation upon the taxing power of the Town of Easton which
may be established by any other section of this Charter.

(f)  Borrowing. The Town of Easton is hereby authorized to borrow whatever
funds the Council determines, by Resolution duly passed, to be necessary to
finance any off-street parking facilities including the acquisition of access to and
egress from off-street parking facilities, and to evidence such borrowing by the
issuance of notes, tax anticipation notes or such other indicia of indebtedness as
the lender or lenders may request.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of adoption
of this Resolution is July 17, 1972, and the amendment of the Charter of the Town
of Easton hereby enacted shall become effective on September 6, 1972 unless a
proper petition for a referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law,
provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution shall be continuously posted
on the bulletin board of the Town Hall until August 26, 1972, and provided further
that a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in The Easton Star
Democrat, a newspaper of general circulation in the Town of Easton, or in any
other newspaper of such general circulation, once in each of the weeks of July 19,
1972, July 26, 1972, August 2, 1972 and August 9, 1972.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of Easton
is hereby specifically enjoined to carry out the provisions of Section 2 hereof and,
as evidence of said compliance, the Mayor of Easton shall cause to be affixed to
the minutes of this meeting appropriate certificates of publication of the newspaper
or newspapers in which the title of this Resolution shall have been published and