Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-15
ORDINANCE NO. s4.

| ORDINANCE NO. S4.
 An ordinance providing TOT paving O. K. Street in the city of Bisbee, and prescribing the method of entering in- to contract therefor, and for the pay ment of the contractor, and for pro viding the manner in which cost and expense of said paving shall be ap- portioned among property holders on said street.
 | WHEREAS, more than two-thirds of the residence owners of the line of | lots or part of lots situated on O. K. Street in the City of Bisbee, Arizona, have petitioned the City Council of said City to have said street paved | for its full width with yitrified brick and concrete according to the estab- | iished grade of said street.
 And whereas, the said City Council | find that public interest and the wei l faI e of the city require that said street | be paved as aforesaid.
 l NOW, THEREFORE, it is ordained | by the said Common Council of the City of Bisbee, as follows, to-wit: | Sec. 1. That said O. K. street be paved according to the grade estab- lished for said street with vitrified brick and hydraulic cement and brok- en stone, concrete base according to the plans and specifications on file in the office of the City Clerk of said | City, which plans and specifications were adopted by Ordinance No. 63 for Main street and Brewery Avenue, on 1 the 2Sth day of June, 1905, the said plans and specifications are hereby adopted for the paving of said O. K. street.
 l Sec. 2. The contract to do said pay | ing 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 the Evening Miner, and such other newspapers as said Council may by resolution di- rect.
 Sec. 3. The cost Of paving said O. K street as ahoTe mentioned shall be estimated according to the whole length of said street per running foot, and the said city shall be liable to the contractor for one-fifth only of the actual total amount of the cost of paving said street as above mention ed, and the owners of the lots border ing on said street to be paved shall be liable to the contractor for their proportion of the remaining cost in the ratio of the front lines of the lots owned by them to the whole improved line, and In making the assessment against such owners for said improve ment the ground shall be assessed across the ground fronting or imme- diately abutting on said improvement back to the distance of fifty feet from said front line whether such land be subdivided by plating or conveyance or in any other manner. All assess ments where the ground to be assess ed is held by more than one owner shall be in proportion of a fair cash value of each parcel, less the value of the improvements to be determined by the City Engineer, and in case of a sale up a receipt, each parcel shall be offered and sold separately, begin ming with the front parcel and so on to the last or rear parcel.
 Sec. 4. When such contract shall have been made and shall have been in progress of fulfillment, the Con- mon Council shall have power to cause estimates to be made from time to time for the amount of work done by the contractor and to require such amount to be paid to him, deducting a reasonable percentage to secure the completion of the contract until the whole shall have been finished, and the Common Council shall have power to prescribe in said contract the time within which the whole shall be com pleted, and such amount shall be liens upon the ground upon which they are assessed to the same extent as taxes are a lien, and shall have the same preference 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 to
 be paid by such person to such con- tractor, such assessment shall be col lected as is provided in Section of Act No. 70, of the Session Laws of the Twenty-Second Legislative Assem-
 bly of the Territory of Arizona, being an Act Entitled Granting to Incorpo- rate Cities and Towns certain powers and privileges in addition to those all ready vested in them, by Charter or General Laws of this Territory" Sec 6. The City Clerk Is hereby authorized to advertise for bids to do said paving in accordance with the law and the ordinances of this City, and the said bids or proposals for said con- tract shall be accompanied by a certi- fled check in the amount of ten per cent of the amount bid on said con- tract as an assurance that said bidder
 will enter into a contract with said City according to his bid, said check to be returned to said bidder should
 said City fail to enter into the con- tract with him according to the same.
 Sec. [. This ordinance shall take
 effect and be in force from and after
 the date of it's passage by the Com mon Council and approval by the
 Mayor. Passed this 5th day of June, 1906.
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