The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30
CHAPTER IT.
Improvement 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 public streets, lanes, alleys,
 places or courts, for the purposes or
 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
 street work and street improvement
 under the proceedings hereinafter de-
 scribed.
 Sec. g. 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
 lio Works; and if the expense thereof is to be assessed upon private property, the Board shall investigate the same; and if 1t determine that such improve ment is expedient, 1t shall so report to | the Supervisors; and the Supervisors l shall not order any such improvement
 until the same has been recommended | by said Board When the construction | of any sewer or drain shall involve 8
 cost of more than five dollars per linea1 | foot for any block, it shall not be au- | thorized except by an orc nance passedl | 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 l and County, and the Board of Public
 Works shall not approve of such appli- cation, 1t shall report to the SuperYts-
 ors it's reasons for 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 whlch
 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 Supervts-
 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 @ written recommendation to do the
 same has been made to them by the Board of Public Works. and all suc6
 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 street intersec-
 ton or crossing, where the streets do not intersect each other at right angles.
 it 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 be del1neated the lots so to be benefited. Such map shall be transmitted to the Supervisors with said recommends ton.
 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 a resolution of
 It's intention to recommend the same, 1 specifying the work to be recommend ca, and shall fix a day when 1t shall | take final action upon said resolution. Upon the passage thereof the SecTe-
 tary of the Board shall forthwith, with out any further authority cause a copy
 or said resolution to be posted conspfc- uously for five days In the offlce or said Secretary, and to be published for | period of ten days Qegal holidays ex- cepted) and cause copy to be deposit | ed in the Post Office at the City and County, with postage prepaid. address l ed to each person represented on the Assessment Book of the City and | County for the next preceding fiscal 1 year as being owner of land liable to be
 assessed for said improvement; but if i said lot stand on said book in the name | of unknown owners, such notice need | not be sent.
 1 The Board shall also cause to be con-
 spicuously posted along the line of said l 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 1 further particulars.
 | Sec. 4. The owners of a majority of | the frontage of the property fronting
 on said proposed work or improvement. and in case of a district. those oWptpG