[Adopted as Rev. Ords. 1964, §§ 18-38 to 18-40
(Ch. 20, Art. VI, of the 2010 Code)]
[Amended 8-15-2000]
All applications for establishing or constructing sidewalks
shall be in writing and shall be addressed to the Mayor and Municipal
Council. The Municipal Council shall appoint a time and place for
hearing all parties interested and shall give notice thereof in writing
to all abutters on such proposed sidewalk seven days at least before
the time of hearing. The notice shall be served by leaving the same
at the usual place of abode of each of such abutters or by delivering
the same to such abutter in person or to his/her tenant or authorized
agent, and if such abutter has no known place of abode and no tenant
or authorized agent within the City known to the Municipal Council,
or if, being a resident therein, he/she is not known as such to the
Municipal Council, such notice shall be posted up in some public place
in the City seven days at least before the time of hearing.
At the time and place so appointed, and after notice as aforesaid,
the Municipal Council shall meet and hear all parties interested therein
and, if requested, shall view the premises, and if it shall adjudge
that the public convenience requires that a sidewalk should be established,
constructed or graded as prayed for, it may establish and grade the
same in such manner as it may deem proper and may make assessments
for the expenses thereof as hereinafter provided.
[Amended 8-15-2000]
Every sidewalk so established shall be constructed, graded and
completed by the Supervisor of Streets or under his/her direction,
of such materials and dimensions and in such manner as the Municipal
Council prescribes. The Supervisor of Streets shall keep an exact
account of the expense incurred therefor and shall report the same
to the Municipal Council within 30 days after its completion, with
the names of all abutters assessable therefor and the estates benefited
thereby, with a brief description thereof, and thereupon the Municipal
Council may, provided that the order establishing the sidewalk stated
that betterments were to be assessed, assess the several abutters
thereon not exceeding the expense thereof proportionally. The report
and assessment shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk, and
the City Clerk shall record in a book furnished by the City and kept
for that purpose the names of the streets in which sidewalks are so
established and shall enter therein the length and width of such sidewalks,
the date when established, the names of the several owners of the
estates abutting thereon and the several sums so assessed thereon,
and the Supervisor of Streets shall forthwith deliver to the City
Treasurer/Collector and City Auditor a certified copy of such assessments.
