The San Francisco call., 1898-04-19
CHAPTER IT.
1mprovement of Streets.

SECTION 1. All streets, lanes, alleys. places or courts in the City and Coun- ty, now open or dedicated Or which may hereafter be opened or dedicated to public use, shall be deemed and held to be open pubnc streets, lanes, alleys, places or courts, for the purposes Of this Chapter; and tic Supervisors are hereby empowered to fix the width and grade thereof, and to order to be done therein and thereon any and all street work and street improvement under the proceedings hereinafter de- scribed.
 Sec 2. 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, it shall so report to the Supervisors; and the Supervisors shall not order any such improvement huntil the same has been recommended by said Board. When the construction of any sewer or drain shall involve a cost of more than five dollars per lineal foot for any block, it shall not be au- thOriZed except by an or 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 the expense is to be paid by the City and County, and the Board of Public Works shall not approV, of such appli- cation, it shall report to the Supervis- ors its 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 vote of not less than fourteen members of the Board of Supervisors, order the doing of said work, or the making of said improvement.
 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 such recommendations shall be made mat ters of record in the office of said Board.
 When the Board shall recommend any work to be done on a street intersec- ton or crossing, where the streets do not intersect each other at right angles, 1t shall in each such case determine what lots in the blocks adjacent to such intersection or cro, ing will Le benefit ed by said work, and shall cause a map to be made on which shall be delineated the lots so to te benefited Such map shall be transmitted to the Supervisors with said recommends tion.
 Sec. 8. 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 resolution of it's 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 Qegal holidays ex- cepted) and cause a 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 the frontage of the pro rty fronting on said proposed work or improvement, or ir, rnc nf ct