The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-06
LAWS OF NEW JERSEY
BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER CxxxIv.
ponfinued

Continued.
2. Aud be ii enacted, That the board Of
said street aud water commissioners
herein provided for, IN any city aforesaid.
shall Dc substituted for and became
vested with and shall perform all the
powers, rights, duties aud authority as
are or may be by law vested In aud i'm
posed upou, or exercised by the board OF
aldermen, common council, or other
governing body or board of such city, or
Of any public aqueduct or water board
department, or of any department, civil
engineer. city surveyor, commissioner,
Office or officer, clerk, servant OF employe
or authority of any such city, having
power TO Law out, open, grade, alter,
vacate or cnange the lines OF streets, ave-
nues, lanes, alleys or highways. or to
pave, repair, repave. improve or clean
streets, avenues, lanes, alleys or
or to make any street. highway or
eve constructions, connections, altera-
tions, repairs or improvements, or having
power to control aud regulate the use and
occupation Of the streets, avenues
highways and sidewalks in snch city. or
having power TO remove by contract or
otherwise ashes. offal. garbage and other
refuse matter and accumulations in
dwellings aud other buildings and prem
ises IN such city, or the control, opera
tion, construction. repair. maintenance OF
public water works and the public water
supply aud distribution. sale and use OF
water. aud the collection Of water rents
and charges of such city. or having power
aud authority to construct. improve. re-
pair. manage. maintain and control the
public parks and places, and the public
docks, wharves, bulkheads, bridges,
baths, fountains or other structures. or
the erection, construction, tmproveme at.
repair, maintenance. control aud manage
ment OF all public buiidin gs, or real
estate, owned. rented, used or occupied
by. or under the corporate authority OF
such city and not used exclusively for
city hall, or public markets, hospital or
poor and aims and reformatory purposes,
and having power and authority to pur-
chase In the corporate name OF such city
real and personal property for any and all
the public purposes or works as afore-
said; provided, however, that the con-
struciion, furnishing and repairing OF
public school houses. police and IRE
buildings. shall remain under the control
of the hoard or boards now OF hereafter
entrusted with the same under the laws
governing such city; that tue Office OF
aqueduct or water commissioner OF any
such city and the Office or position OF
counsel, superintendent, treasurer, sec
rotary, supervisor, civil or mechanical en-
gineer, inspector or n other ofice or
officer, clerk, servant or elnploye what
ever OF such aqueduct or water board or
connected with any authority thereof,
and any and every office or officer, clerk,
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with or under the employ OF auy stree
department or street commissions or
superintendent office, or city surveyor
or engineers Office or department.. or OF
any department, office, officer or munich
pal authority whatever then existing In
any such city, or in or under the corpor-
ate authorities thereof, having IN whole
or in part the government control, man
A2ement. regulation or supervision
OF streets aud highways, sidewal ks,
~w~,-W-a1fro nrror 1naka ruhurUoa
piers, bridges. public parks,
baths, fountains, lamps, lights OF public
plaees-ars respectively hereby abolished
and the term or terms OF Office and EN-
ployment of all such officials are hereby
terminated, and all authority and power
OF each and every the same shall cease
and determine Immediately on the organ
ization OF such board of street and water
commissioners, as h~ereinbefore provided,
but the said board Of street and water
commissioners may continue in their en-
ployment temporarily all or any of the
clerks, servants n subordinate en-
ployes of the various departments gof the
city governments by this act transferred
to the control OF said board,
and all books. papers, maps, draw
ings, profiles, records, property, effects,
matters and things whatsoever, used by
or theretofore in the custody, charge, OF
) under control OF such municipal board,
DO iy, department., office, officer, CLERK or
employe. and apDertaining TO n pur-
pose whatever connected with the exer-
else of the authority, powers and duties
by this act conferred or contemplated 10
be conferred upon uch board of street
T and water commissioners herein provided
for aud authorized In such city, shall at
once be delivered to such board OF street
and water commissioners, or TO the per-
sons designated BY such board to receive
i the same.
8. And be it enacted, That the board OF
street and water commissioners herein
authorized, shall have uli power, Ia their
discretion, to repave and improve accord.
Ing to specifications adopted by said board
for material for any such repaving. and
for the work in each case, any street,
avenue, lane. alley, highway, or public
3 place already paved in n such city, OF
any part thereof, a portion OF the expense
: to be assessed In the same manner as now
7 provided by law, on the property benefit
ed in proportion to the benefit received,
but in no case for mote than one-rnird OF
the cost thereof, and In no case beyond
the benefit received, provided, the owners
T or their legal representatives, owning OIL
representlng a majority OF the lineal feet
: frontage Of any such street, avenue,
D lane. alley, highway or public place, oil
part thereof, shall petition such
such board to have the same SO repaved
and improved; and the said board shal
have power to proceed and do u repay
: ing aud improving without such petition,
by unanimous vote of the commissioners
, Of such board, proceeding In all things as
now required by law for like street i'm
provemenls In any such city except as
J herein otherwise provided.
A And be- IL enacted. That the said
board of street and water commissioners
! shall nave power, Ia addition TO all Other
powers granted by law to sue board, IN
T their discretion, TO change the grade and
so establish a new grade In whole or In
part for any street, avenue, lane. alley.
highway or public place, that is to be re-
paired or repayed as in this act author
lied; and the cost Of all such ~excavating
or grading up or down, or filling in, &c
bring such street, avenue, lane, alley,
. highway or public place, or any part
. thereof up to the same grade SO estab-
, iished, shall be borne by such city al
large; said board shall have full power &c
4 adopt maps, grades and specifications for
: eurbs along any such street, avenue, lane,
alley, highway or public place, or part
!. thereof, and for sidewalks, and may sup
ply, set and reset such curbs and supply
grade, and lay and relay the sidewalks
wherever needed to make them conform
to the grade or specifications adopted fol-
curbs or sidewalks in any such street,
avenue, lane, alley, highway or public
place, and to the new grade established
= for any such street. avenue
lane, alley, highway or public
: place, or curbs or sidewalks, II
! any have been so adopted oil