When any public streets are to be paved, the
materials used in such pavement shall be those recommended by the
Director of the Department of Public Works and the City Engineer.
All plans and specifications for the paving
of any streets shall be prepared by the Director of the Department
of Public Works and the City Engineer.
The Director of the Department of Public Works
is hereby authorized to furnish asphalt to persons having contracts
with the City to pave any of its streets.
The asphalt to be furnished to persons under § 412-23 shall be at a price equal to the cost of the same to the City, plus 10% to be added thereto to cover the cost of handling and preparing the asphalt.
Payment by contractors for asphalt under § 412-24 is to be made when and as estimates are given to contractors by the City.
The cost of paving the intersections of streets,
avenues and courts shall be assumed by the City and shall be paid
out of the general City treasury.
Dirt roads in the City shall be temporarily
paved in a manner decided upon by the Director of the Department of
Public Works, either upon the petition of a majority of property owners
in interest and number abutting the line of the proposed improvement
or, if the City deems it best in the interest of the City, the Department
shall have the power to pave any dirt road notwithstanding the majority
of the property owners in interest and number shall not have signed
a petition. The petition must be verified by affidavit of one or more
parties to it. A majority in interest of owners of undivided interests
in any piece of property is to be deemed and treated as one person
for the purposes of the petition.
The proper officers of the city are hereby authorized
and directed to advertise for the furnishing of the necessary materials
and equipment required for the completion of any of the projects authorized
by this Article.
The entire cost of any temporary pave shall
be borne by the abutting property owners. Property owners shall be
given notice of the time and place of making the assessment against
them and such assessment shall be certified by the Department of Public
Works to the proper authorities for collection. Such assessment shall
be allowed as a credit or setoff against any cost assessed for any
subsequent permanent pave.
Immediately after the completion of the work
under this Article, the City Engineer shall file, in the office for
the collection of such accounts, a certificate of completion and a
final or correct schedule of assessments.
The abutting property owners may pay the assessments
in installments or the full assessment may be paid at any time during
the period of performing the work under this Article. However, the
entire assessment shall be paid on or before the date of completing
the work.
All moneys collected from the abutting property
owners as herein provided are hereby appropriated to a fund to be
called "Special Fund for Temporary Paves".
All moneys collected and appropriated to the
special fund for temporary paves shall be segregated to be used for
the paving of the specific road for which it was collected.
