The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-08
TO SAVE PAVEMENT
City Council To Be Asked To
Adopt New Law as Part Of
Kenosha City Charter
MUST PUT IN SERVICE PIPES

At the next meeting of the City
Council the aldermen will be asked to
pass resolution adopting as a part
of the City Charter one Of the laws
passed by the recent session of the
Legislature which will make it posi-
bic for the city to prevent the tearing
up of the pavements in the different
parts of the city. The law is designed
for the use of cities in the state acting
under special charters and it gives
the Councils of the city, vwhen the
clause has been adopted as part of
the charter, the right to force prop
erty owners to put in all service
mains before street is paved. The
law is as follows:
An Act to amend section o25- 223,
statutes of 1898, relating to laying
water, gas pipes andtdrains.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assem-
bly,, do enact as follows:
Section l. Section 925-223, stat
utes of 1898, is amended to read: Sec
ton 925-222. Whenever the Council
shall order the paving or repaving of
any street in which water, gas mains
and sewers or either of them shall
nave been previously laid or con-
structed, they may also by resolution
require water and gas service pipes
and house drains to be first laid in
such street, at the cost of the prop
erty fronting thereon, from the main
sewer, water and gas mains in such
street to the curb line on either side
thereof, at such intervals as the Coun-
Gil shall direct, along the whole length
of such paved street, except at street
and alley crossings, and notice shall
thereupon be given to the owners or
occupants of the property adjoining
such street, by publication thereof
for six days IN the official paper, re-
curing them to do such work opposite
their respective lots according to Plans
and specifications to be before pre-
pared and filed in the Office of the
board of public works, city clerk or
city surveyor, as the Council shall
prescribe, showing the location and
size and the kind and quality of ma
terial of such lateral sewers or drains
and water and gas service pipes; and
if such owners or occupants shall re-
fuse or neglect to do the same before
the paving or repaving of said street
so ordered and within ten days after
publication of such notice, the board
of public works or the officer or Off
GERS discharging the duties thereof
may procure the same to be done,
Such Board of Public Works or the
Office or officers discharging the duties
thereof shall keep an accurate &C
count of the expenses of putting in
such lateral sewers or drains and
water and gas service pipes in front
of each lot or parcel of land, whether
the work be done by contract or other.
wise, and report the same to the
Comptroller or City Clerk, who shall
annually prepare statement of the
expense so incurred in front of each
lot or parcel of land, and report the
same to the City Clerk, and the
amount therein charged to ca Oh lot or
parcel of land shall be by such clerk
entered in the tax roll as special tax
against said lot or parcel of land, and
the same shall be collected in all
respects like other city taxes upon
real estate; provided that no street
shall be paved, or repaved by order of
the council unless the water and gas
mains and service pipes and necessary
sewers and their connections shall, as
required by the council, be first laid
and constructed in that portion Of
such street SO to be paved or repaved.
Approved June Il, 1907.