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„~. <br />DEXTER U. JOYNER <br />- _ - • ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW <br />610 FIRST PAS~c~cx STATE BANK BL~ <br />PASADENA. TEXAS 77502 <br />PHONE 477-5900 <br />• <br />THE STATE OF TEXAS § <br />COUNTY OF HARRIS § <br />CONTRACT FOR COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT TAXES <br />This contract is made and entered into by and between the <br />CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, acting herein by and through its gover- <br />ning body, hereinafter styled "First Party" and DEXTER D. JOYNER, <br />duly licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas, as an Attorney at <br />Law, hereinafter styled "Second Party." <br />W I T N E S S E T H <br />• <br />I. <br />First Party hereby agrees to employ and does hereby employ <br />Second Party to enforce by suit or other appropriate legal remedies, <br />the collection of all delinquent taxes, penalty and interest owing <br />to First Party. Current year taxes of all taxpayers falling delin- <br />quent within the period of this contract shall become subject to <br />its terms on the first day of July of each year. <br />II. <br />First Party and Second Party hereby agree that prior to the <br />• <br />filing of any suits for collection of delinquent taxes, both parties <br />are to review the delinquent tax roll for any errors, double assess- <br />ments or other discrepancies on said roll, the current Assessor- <br />Collector to represent the First Party in such reviewing procedure. <br />Second Party is to intervene on behalf of the First Party in all <br />suits for taxes, hereafter filed by any taxing unit on property <br />located within its jurisdictional limits. <br />III. <br />First Party hereby agrees to furnish the amount of delinquent <br />• <br />taxes to Second Party on all property within the taxing jurisdiction <br />of First Party, along with a copy of First Party's delinquent tax <br />~~ <br />