The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
CHAPTER II. :.
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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 pubic streets, lanes, alleys, 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 street work and street improvement
 under the proceedings hereinafter de- Scribed.
 Sec. ?. Application for the doing of any such work or improvement must in the first instance, except where otherwise provided in this Article, be l 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 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 ort. nance passed by the affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members of the Board of Su- pervisors. If an application is made
 
 the expense is to be paid by the City and County, and the Board of Public Works shall not approve of such appli- cation, it shall report to the Supervis-
 ors its 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 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 Supervise ors, an estimate of the expense, and in
 such case the Supervisors may order the same done.
 No street work or street irnprove- ments of any kind shall be ordered to be done by the Supervisors unIese written recommendation to do the same has been made to them by the Board of Public Works, and all suc6 l recommendations shall be made mat
 ters or record in the office of said Board. When the Board shall recommend anv ! tlon or crossing, where the streets do not intersect each other at right angles It shall in each such case deterroine what lots in the blocks adjacent to such intersection or crossing will be benefit ca by said work, and shall cause a
 map to be made on which shall be- 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 De recommend, | ed, and shall fix a day when it shall 1 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, conv
 of said resolution to be posted conspic.
 uously for five days in the office of safd l Secretary, and to be published for a 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- 1 ed to each person represented on the l Assessment Book of the City and. l County for the next preeedinp 6saa1 VI "S itiS OWnSA OL ldIlu 1dDle to be
 assessed for said improvement: but if
 said lot stand on said book in the name l 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, it's date. and briefiv tha
 work or improvement proposed. and re
 Ter to the resolution of intention for further particulars. 1oi
 Sec. 4. The owners of a majority of the frontage of the pror srty fronting
 on said proposed work or improvement.