[Amended 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76]
All sidewalks ordered constructed or completed
by the City Council shall be so constructed or completed by the Highway
Department of the City which shall keep a careful and accurate account
of the cost and expense attending such construction or completion
and the Superintendent of Highways shall, as soon as the work is finished,
certify to the City Engineer the whole cost and expense thereof.
The City Engineer shall make and prepare all
needed plans and specifications for the construction of all sidewalks
constructed by order of the City Council, which plans shall be filed
in the office of the City Clerk. After being so filed, the plans shall
be deposited and kept in the office of the City Engineer, which shall
be deemed a part of the City Clerk's office for the keeping of such
plans.
One-half of the entire cost and expense of all sidewalks constructed or completed by the City under the provisions of §
222-38 shall be assessed proportionally on all owners of land abutting in such sidewalks, less any amounts previously assessed in respect to such abutting land and paid for the cost of construction in any other manner of such sidewalks.
The City Engineer shall, as soon as the work
of constructing or completing any such sidewalk is finished, certify
to the City Council, for the purpose of assessments, the total cost
of such construction or completion as certified to him by the Superintendent
of Highways, the frontage of all estates abutting on such sidewalks,
the names of the owners thereof, all amounts previously assessed,
in respect to such abutting estates and paid for the cost of constructing
such sidewalks in any other manner, and the proportional amount of
the assessment to be levied on the owner of each such abutting estates.