[Adopted as Secs. 32-50 through 32-54 of the 1963 City Code (Ch. 222, Art. VII, of the 1980 Code)]
[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.
A. 
No sidewalk shall be constructed, completed or repaired by any person other than the Highway Department of the City, or any firm acting under a contract with the Department, until after the City Engineer shall have prepared all necessary plans and specifications therefor and filed the same, all as provided in the preceding section.
B. 
No such work shall be begun prior to the execution and delivery to the City of a bond in the form and upon the conditions set forth in § 222-12 nor prior to the issuance of a permit therefor by the Superintendent of Highways. All work done under this section shall be under the supervision and subject to the control of the Superintendent of Highways.
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.