[Adopted 7-5-1972 by Ord. No. 72-3]
The Director of Public Works of the City of Bridgeton shall notify all owners of abutting properties, as shown on the records of the Tax Assessor's office, that a road, street, avenue or highway of the City of Bridgeton is or is about to be reconstructed. Said notice shall further provide that said adjoining landowners may renew utility services under said road, street, avenue or highway within 60 days of the date of said notice by notifying the Director of Public Works that it desires such work to be done. Said notice shall further state that if the utility services are not renewed within the time specified in the notice, the property owners may be subject to payments for repair of said road, street, avenue or highway as set forth in § 305-7 of this article.
Said notice shall be sent by regular mail to the adjoining property owners of said road, street, avenue or highway to be reconstructed at the address shown by the records of the Tax Assessor's office.
In addition, the Director of Public Works shall publish notice that said reconstruction or improvement of roads, streets, avenues or highways is to be completed. Said notice shall be published in a newspaper printed and circulated in the City of Bridgeton which shall set forth the fact that utility services may be renewed within a period of 60 days from the date of publication of said notice on the roads, streets, avenues and highways to be reconstructed or improved and shall state further that if utility services are not renewed within the time specified, the property owner may be subject to payment for repair of said road, street, avenue or highway as set forth in § 307-7 of this article.
If any owner of abutting property on said road, street, avenue or highway shall fail to renew his service pursuant to a notice described in §§ 307-3 through 307-5, inclusive, of this article and shall find it necessary to renew his utility services within five years after a road, street, avenue or highway is reconstructed or improved, he shall be liable for the total cost of making final and permanent repairs to the excavation or opening of said road, street, avenue or highway which final repairs shall be made by the Department of Public Works of the City of Bridgeton or its designated representative, and said final repairs shall put the road in such condition as existed before the excavation or opening was made.
The total cost of said repairs shall be paid by the adjoining landowners within 30 days after said final repairs are completed upon notice from the Department of Public Works and if the adjoining landowners shall fail to make such payments, the costs for making final repairs to the road, street, avenue or highway shall be certified by the Director of Public Works to the Tax Collector of the City of Bridgeton and shall become a lien upon the real estate adjoining said road, street, avenue or highway for which the utility is renewed.
If any question should arise concerning the application of this article or if any adjoining landowner believes a hardship exists with regard to his property and the reopening of said road, street, avenue or highway, he may make application to the Director of Public Works for an exception to this article. If the Director of Public Works shall find that there exists no ground for hardship, the application shall be denied and in such event said adjoining landowner may appeal the decision of Department of Public Works to the City Council of the City of Bridgeton, which shall finally determine whether a sufficient hardship exists to qualify as an exception to this article.