All petitions for the paving or repaving of any street, alley,
parkway, park approach or lateral roadway of such parkway or park
approach, or a portion thereof, shall be in writing and presented
to the City Clerk and by him presented to the Council. The petition
may request the paving or repaving of any street, alley, parkway,
park approach or lateral roadway of such parkway or park approach,
or any portion thereof, with any kind of pavement for which specifications
are on file with the Commissioner of Public Works. Each person who
has signed such petition shall state under oath that he has signed
the same of his own free will; that no compensation was paid therefor,
directly or indirectly; and that no promise, inducement or threat,
explicit or implied, was made to secure his signature thereto. Any
owner or his duly authorized agent on any street, alley, parkway or
park approach, the improvement of which may be requested, may sign
such petition either in ink or with indelible pencil, and opposite
the signature shall be the date of the year and month when such signature
was written. Any petition containing signatures bearing date six months
prior to the date of the presentation of the petition to the City
Clerk, or not complying in all respects with the conditions prescribed
by this section, shall be rejected by the City Clerk and not presented
to the Council. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to examine
petitions which are filed with him and see that the conditions herein
imposed have been complied with.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to stamp or otherwise
endorse upon every such petition the date, hour and minute of its
receipt, and before stamping or otherwise endorsing the same, he shall
enter in a record to be kept by him for such purpose a brief description
of the work petitioned for and the day, hour and minute of the receipt
thereof by him. Said record shall be so prepared and kept that the
entry therein, with respect to each successive petition, shall occupy
only one line, and shall follow on the next line below the entry as
to the last preceding petition received. In the event that any petition
is rejected by the City Clerk as above stated, the reason for the
rejection shall be inserted in said record.