The San Francisco call., 1898-03-31
CHAPTER II.
Improvement of Streets.

SECTION 1. All streets, lanes. alleys places or courts in the City and Coun- ty, now open or dedicated or Wnlcn 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 tho 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 or Pup 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
 until 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 orc nance passeA by the affirmative vote of not less thaE fourteen members of the Board of Su-r 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 approve of such appli- cation, it shall report to the Supervis- 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 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 street intersec- tion 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 crossing will Le benefit ed by said work, and shall cause 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- ton.
 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 copy of said resolution to be posted conSpic- l 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 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 t
 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 or
 the frontage of the proT -rty fronting on said proposed work or improvement, and, in case of district, hose ownlns