The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-26
CHAPTER ccII.

An Act to authorize borouQhs 20 order
and regulate the construction Of side
walks, and 20 provide for the payment
of the expenses of the same.
/. BE It enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly Of the state of New
Jersey, That the Incorporated boroughs
of this state shall have power through
their several appropriate legislative
bodies to pass M ordinance for the regu-
lation, construction and repairs Of side
walks, aud thereby to Tx aud determine
the method in which sidewalks
in such boroughs shall be con-
strncted, and maintained from ma
terial out of which the same shall
be constructed; and also to provide
for the payment OF the cost OF such con
struction. repair and maintenance; pro-
vided, however. that the property owners
may construct. at their W expose, side
walks of any material that may be
allowed by general ordinance Of such
borough.
2. Aud be 1t enacted. That any r1ch
borough may prescribe by general ordi-
nance in what cases such sidewalks shall
be constructed, repaired and maintained
at the expense of the abutting land own
ers; whenever in any borough it shall
hereafter become the duly of any
owner of aoutting lands under
the ordinance of a borough to con-
struct or alter or repair ans side
Wulk5 OF HECLlUu iucIbDAs AlC dhAIOltLiEoO A
such borough having charge OF the street
affairs of the borough may cause a notice
in writing to be served upon the owner or
occupant of said lands requiring the nee
essary specified work to said sidewalks to
be done by said owner or occupant within
a period of not less than twenty days from
the date OF service of such notice; when
ever any lands are unoccupied and the
owner cannot be found within the bor-
ough the same may be mailed, postage
prepaid, to his or her postoffice address,
IL the same can be ascertained; in case
such owner is a non-resi enb OF the Dor
ough and his or her postofhce address
cannot be ascevtained, then the notice
NAV be inserted for four weeks, once a
week. in some newspaper of such borough:
in case the owner or occupant of such
lands shall not comply with the require
ments of such notice 1t shall be lawful for
the street department OF the borough to
cause the required work to be zone and
paid for out Of the money! OF the borough
to tue credit of the street department; the
cost of such work shall be certified by the
person or persons having charge thereof
to the person having charge of the collec-
ton of taxes and assessments in such
borough; upon filing said certificate with
the collector of taxes OF said borough the
mount OF the cost OF such work shall be
and become a lieu upon the said aOuJting
lands in the front of or on the side
of which such work was done;
and it shall aud may be lawful for the
authorities in such borough 10 place the
assessments made against any property
improved in the manner specified in this
act in the annual tax bills rendered TO the
owner or owners of such property, and
the same may be collected in the same
manner and by the same officers as taxes
are or may be collected in such borough;
Ia addition thereto the borough may nave
an action upon contract to recover the
said amount against the own
err of said lands in any court having OBJ
tanned Jurisdiction thereof; the certified
COPY of the aforesaid certificate shall in
such an action be prima facie evidence Of
the existence of a debt due from the said
owner to the borough.
8 And be it enacted, That all moneys
recovered or paid to the borough under
the provisions of the last preceding sec
tion shall be credited to the account out
Of which the cost Of such work was paid.
l. And be il enacted, That this act snail
take effect Immediately.
Approved April IA, 1891.