It is hereby ordered and directed that no plan,
plot or description showing the layout of any highway or street upon
private property, or of building lots in connection with or in relation
to such highway or street, shall, within the limits of the City of
Albany, be received for record in the office of the Clerk of the County
of Albany until a copy of said plan, plot or description has been
filed with the City Engineer and he has certified with relation thereto
his approval thereof. Such certificate shall be recorded as a part
of the record of said original instrument containing such plan, plot
or description. No such street or highway shall be accepted by the
City until the matter has been referred to the City Engineer.
No ordinance accepting any street shall be passed
until the same has been referred to and approved by the City Engineer.
The City Engineer is hereby authorized and empowered
to make such changes in the names of existing streets as will prevent
the duplication of street names, and similar names, and the confusion
arising from disconnected portions of streets. He shall obtain the
necessary consent of the owners of property to the change of names
of streets, whenever in his judgment such change is for the best interests
of the public, and he may employ the labor necessary to secure such
consent.
The sum of $500, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the City Treasury,
derived from any source other than by municipal tax and not otherwise
appropriated, to pay the expenditures hereinbefore authorized.