The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
CHAPTER II.
Improvement of Streets.

| SECTION l. All streets, lanes, alleys. | places or courts in the City and Coun- 1 ty, now open or dedicated or which may hereafter be opened or dedicated | to public use, shall be deemed and held to be open pubic streets, lanes, alleys, l places or courts, for the purposes of | this Chapter; and the Supervisors are hereby empowered to fix the width and grade thereof, and to order to be done therein and thereon any and all 1 street work and street improvement
 under the proceedings hereinafter de- | Scribed.
 | Sec. 3. Application for the doing of
 any such work or improvement must | in the first instance except where
 otherwise provided in this Article be
 made in writing to the Board of Pub
 lie Works; and if the expense thereof
 is to be assessed upon private property,
 the Board shall investigate the same;
 and if it determine that such improve
 ment is expedient, 1t shall so report to
 the Supervisors; and the Supervisors | shall not order any such improvement i until the same has been recommended | by said Board. When the construction
 of any sewer or drain shall involve cost of more than five dollars per lineal foot for any block it shall not be au- thorized except by an orr nance passed by the affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members of the Board of Su- | pervisorS. If an application is made for any work or improvement of which l the expense is to be paid by the City and County, and the Board of Public Works shall not approve of such appli- cation, 1t shall report to the Supervis-
 ors it's reasons tor such disapproval, and the Supervisors may then, after having obtained from the Board of | Public Works an estimate of the ex- | pense of said work or improvement, by ordinance passed by the affirmative I vAfn nf ct 1Ae-e- of the Board of Supervisors, order the doing of said work, or the making of | said improvement
 l The Board of Public Works may also. except as herein prohibited recommend any improvement, the expense of which is to be paid by the City and County, | though no application may have been
 made therefor and must make, with | said recommendation to the Supervis- ors, an estimate of the expense, and in
 such case the Supervisors may order | the same done.
 | No street work or street improve ments of any kind shall be ordered to
 be done by the Supervisors unless a | written recommendation to do the | same has been made to them by the Board of Public Works, and all suc6 i recommendations shall be made mat | ters of record in the office of said Board.
 
 | work to be done on a street intersec- tion or crossing, where. the streets do not 1nterSect each other at right angles
 1t shall in each such case determine what lots In the blocks adjacent to such intersection or crossing will be benefit
 ed by said work, and shall cause a | map to be made on which shall he delineated the lots so to be benefited.
 Such map shall be transmitted to the | Supervisors with said recommenda- | tion.
 | Sec. 3. Before recommending to the Supervisors the ordering of any work
 or improvement, the expense of which.
 or any part thereof, is to be assessed | upon private property, the Board of Public Works shall pass a resolution of ! its intention to recommend the same. | specifying the work to be recommend | ed. and shall fix a day when it shall
 take final action upon said resolution. | Upon the passage thereof the Secre-
 tary of the Board shall forthwith, with
 out any further authority cause a copy
 of said resolution to be posted conspic-
 uously for five days in the office of said | Secretary, and to be published for a
 period of ten days Oegal holidays ex-
 cepted) and cause copy to be deposit | ed In the Post Office at the City and
 County, with postage prepaid address | ed to each person represented on the Assessment Book of the City and County for the next preceding fiscal
 year as being owner of land liable to be
 assessed for said improvement: but if
 said lot stand on said book in the name of unknown owners. such notice need | not be sent.
 The Board shall also cause to be con- | spicuously posted along the line of said ! contemplated improvement, at points
 not more than one hundred feet in dis | tance apart. notices, not less than
 three in all, of the passage of said reso-
 lution. Each of said notices shall be
 headed Notice of Street Work in let | ters of not less than two inches in
 length. and shall in legible characters
 state the fact of the passage of said resolution, its date, and. briefly the
 work or improvement proposed. and re- | fer to the resolution of intention for | further particulars.
 Sec. 4. The owners of a majority of i the frontage of the pror -rty fronting | on said proposed work or improvement, l and fin case of a district thoaa owning