The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02

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 The word "block" shall mean the l blocks known or designated as such upon the maps and books of the As- l sessor.
 The term quarter block" as used in
 this Chapter as to irregular blocks,
 shall be deemed to include all lots or
 portions of lots. having any frontage on either intersecting street half way
 from such intersection to the next main
 street. or, when no main street inter- venes, all the way to boundary linc
 of the City and County.
 The word paved" shall include any
 pavement of stone, iron, wood or other
 material which the Supervisors may
 by ordinance order to be used; but no
 patented pavement shall be ordered
 during the existence of the patent | therefor, until the owner of such pat ent shall have transferred to the City and County all right to the use of the same therein, with the privilege to any | person to manufacture and lay the
 same upon its streets under any con- 1 tract that may be awarded to him, or entered into by him with the City and County.
 | The term "expense" shall include the price at which the contract was award 1 ed, and the term Incidental expenses | shall include all expenses incurred in l printing and advertising the work con- | tracted for and all expenses for sur
 veying, measuring and inspecting the
 work.
 l All notices and resolutions required in this Article to be published shall be published daily. legal holidays except ed, in the official newspaper.
 | All notices herein required to be served, whether by delivery, mailing | or posting. may be so served by any male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, and his affidavit thereof shall be
 prima facie evidence of such service.
 The affidavit by the publisher of the official newspaper, or his clerk, of the
 publication of any notice required in | this Article to be published, shall be
 prirna facie evidence of such puhlica- | tion.
 Sec. 27. When the owners of all the lands fronting upon any street which is less than forty feet in width, for the entire distance of said street, or for the distance of one or more entire blocks, shall petition the Board of Public Works that the said street, or that DOT ton thereof upon which said lands front, be closed, the Board may pass a resolution recommending that the same be closed. Before passing such resolu- i tion the Board shall cause notice of the application to be published in the official newspaper, and shall fix a time and place at which 1t will consider the same and hear objections thereto. Upon such hearing it shall determine whether | it will recommend that the street be closed; and if it shall so determine, it shall transmit such recommendation to the Supervisors. Thereupon the Super visors may pass an ordinance that the street be closed; and the same shall not
 thereafter be, or be deemed to be, a public street, or subject to any public | expense or improvements; and the land | heretofore included within the road way and sidewalks of said street shall thereafter be the property of the City and County. No such ordinance shall
 be passed until the petitioners shall have paid all the expenses of said pro- ceedings.
 Sec. 2S. In all cases where lands in the City and County shall be hereafter sub-divided and laid out into blocks. or l plats, sub-lots, streets and alleys, or
 when new streets or public grounds shall be laid out, opened, donated or granted to the public by any proprietor, 1 the map or plat thereof shall be sub- mitted to the Board of Public Works | for it's approval, and if the Board ap- prove the same, such approval shall be
 by it indorsed upon the said map or l plat, and said map with said approval l shall then be filed in the office of the
 Recorder; and without such approval 1 indorsed thereon no such map or plat shall be filed in the office of the Re- corder, or have any validity; nor shall any street, alley, or public ground here- after opened and dedicated as such, be- come or be a public street or be subject to any public improvement or expense without such approval, indorsement and record. No street hereafter laid out shall be approved or become pub | lie street unless the same shall be at least forty feet in width and two hun- dred feet distant from any parallel street.
 Sec. 2e. The Board shall annually in- vite proposals for cleaning and sprink- | ling such of the streets of the City and County as the Board shall determine should be cleaned and sprinkled at the public expense. Before causing notice for such proposals to be published the Board shall divide the City and County into such number of districts as in it's Judgment will best induce competition for bids, and secure the cleaning and sprinkling of the streets at the lowest cost. The Secretary of the Board shall, under it's direction, on the first Monday in May of each year, cause to be pub 1ished for a period of ten days a notice inviting proposals for cleaning and SDrlnkllnR 6dcn OI SdIQ QlSlIlClS SpeCl- flying in said notice the streets of each district which are to be cleaned and sprinkled, the number of times a week that they are to be cleaned and sprin- kled, and the amount of security to be given with each contract. Bids shall be made for each district separately. All the provisions of this Article in re- ! lation to the making and opening of bids, awarding of contracts and enter ing into and performance of contracts, shall be applicable to said contracts.
 The Board may at the time it in vites proposals for said cleaning and for said sprinkling, also invite propo- sals for said cleaning separately and for said sprinkling separately, and may award such contracts accordingly as may be for the best interest of the City and County.
 The Board may also, with the consent of the Supervisors expressed by ordin- ance, purchase one or more machines for sweeping the streets, and may en- ter into contracts for sweeping the streets with said machines; but the Board must give the preference to handsweeping so far as it can do so with reference to the proper sweeping of the streets and to the funds at it's disposal.
 Sec. 3O The Board shall cause to be