Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-17
ORDINANCE NO. ea.

An Ordinance Providing for Paving
 All of Review Avenue, of the City
 of Bisbee, and Prescribing the Meth cd of Entering into Contract There
 for, and for the Payment of the Con
 tractor, and for Providing the Man
 ner in Which Cost and Expense of
 Said Paving Shall Be Apportioned
 Among Property Holders in Said
 Street.
 WHEREAS. more than two-thirds of { resident owners of lots, or parts Of lots situate on Review Avenue, in the City of Bisbee have petitioned the City Council of said City to pave sad Review Avenue for it's full width with Vltrified brick and concrete according to the established grade of said street. and,
 WHEREAS, said City Council find that public interest and necessity de Inand that said street be paved as aforesaid,
 Now, Therefore, it is ordained by the said Common Council Of the City of Bisbee, as follows, to-wit;-
 Sec. l. That said Review Avenue be paved according to said established grade with vitrified brick and hydraul- ic cement and broken stone concrete base, according to the plans and spec ifications on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City, said plans and specifications being No. 2, which said specifications were adopted by Ordi- nance No. 63, for Main Street and Brewery Avenue on the 2Sth day of June 1905, and are hereby referred to and made a part of this ordinance. as the plans and specifications for the paving therein provided for.
 Sec. 2. The contract to do said paving shall be let to the best bidder therefor after advertising to receive bids for the same. for ten days in the Bisbee Daily Review, and such other newspapers as said Council may by resolution direct.
 Sec. 5. The cost of paving said street as above mentioned shall be es- timated according to the whole length of said street per running foot, and the said City shall be liable to the Contractor for one-fifth of the actual total amount of the cost of paving said street as above mentioned, and the owners of the lots bordering on said street to be paved shall be liable AO NhC SSAtL ctSlS4 lOi luS1I Of the remaining cost in the ratio of tEe front lines of the lots owned by them to the whole improved line, and in making the assessment against such owners for said improvements, the ground shall be assessed across the ground fronting or immediately abutting on said improvement, back to the distance of fifty feet from said front line, whether such laid be sub divided by plating or conveyance or in any other manner. All assessments where the ground to be assessed is held by more than one owner shall be in proportion of fair cash value of each parcel, less the value of the i'm provements, to be determined by the City Engineer, and in case of a sale upon precept, each parcel shall be offered and sold separately, beginning with the front parcel and so on to the last or rear parcel.
 Sec. 4. When such contract sha,i have been made and shall have been in progress of fulfillment, the Common Council shall have power to cause es- timales to De made from time to time TOT the amount of work done by the contractor and require such amount to
 
 percentage to secure the completion of the contract until the whole shall be finished, and the Common Council shall have power to prescribe in said contract the time within which the whole shall be completed, and such amount shall be liens upon the grounds upon which they are assessed to the same extent that taxes are a lien, and shall have the same prefer ence over other demands Sec. 5. In case any owner or own CTS of lots or parcels of ground on which such assessments have been made shall fail or refuse for the space of twenty days after the date of the estimate to pay the amount thereof tc be paid by such person to such con, tractor, such assessment shall be col iected as is provided in Section e Act No. 10 of the Session Laws of the Twenty-secont Legislature Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, being ar Act entitled Granting to Incorporate cities and towns certain powers anf privileges in addition to thuse already vested in them by charter or genera laws of this Territory"
 Sec. 6. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to advertise for bids to dc said paving, in the Bisbee Daily Re view, for a period of ten days. Bids or proposals for said contract shal be accompanied by a certified check in the amount of ten per cent of the amount bid on said contract, as an assurance that said bidder will enter into a contract with said City, accord ing to his bid to do said paving; said check to be returned to said biddel should said City fail to enter into contract with him according to his bid.
 Sec. [. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and aftei the date of it's passage by the Common Council and approval by the Mayor.
 Passed this 4th day of May 1906.
 Approved this 5th day of May 1906
 C. L. CAVEN