Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

No. 322, Al Published July 5, 1911.
CHAPTER SIT, LAWS OF 1911.
AN ACT to repeal sections 904 and s27
OF the statutes, and to create two
new sections to be designated sec
tions 904 and OPT of the statutes. re-
lating to the discontinuance of roads,
streets, slips, piers, lanes and alleys
in villages and cities.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section L. Sections 904 and 927 of
the statutes are repealed.
Section 2. There are added to the
statutes two new sections to read: Sec
| ton 904. The whole or any part of any
road, street slip, pier, lane or alley, in
any lawfully incorporated village, may
be discontinued by the board of trus-
petition Of the owners of all the 'front.'
age of the lots and lands abutting upon
the portion thereof sought to be dis
continued, and of the owners of more
lots and lands abutting on that portion
of the remainder thereof, which lies
within two thousand six hundred and
fifty feet from the ends of the portion
proposed to be discontinued. When
ever any of the lots or lands aforesaid
is owned by the state, county, city or
person, or the title thereof is held in
trust, as to all lots and lands SO owned
or held, said petition may be signed by
the governor, chairman of the board Of
supervisors of the county, mayor OF
the city, president of the board or trus-
tees of the village, guardian Of the
minor or incompetent person OF the
trustee, respectively, and the signature
of any private corporation may be made
by its president, secretary or other
principal officer or managing. agent.
Written notice stating when and where
the petition will be acted upon, and
stating what road, street, slip. pier,
lane or alley, or part thereof, is pro-
posed to be discontinued, shall be given
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By posting copies thereof in three pub
lie places in said village not less than
three weeks before the day fixed for
the hearing, and when possible, by the
publication of said notice in the official
or. some other newspaper printed in
said village, once a week for three sue
cessiye weeks before said day. .
porated under special law shall have
and possess, and may exercise and pur-
sue all the rights, powers, PRIVILEGES
prescribed by sections $40 and 1913 of
the statutes. The board of trustees of
every such village, and the common
council of every city OF the second ana
third classes, shall at all times have
and possess, and may exercise and pur-
sue all the rights, powers, privileges
and procedure conferred, granted or
prescribed by sections 895 to 904, in
elusive, as well as the powers and
privileges conferred by the provisions
of their respective charters, and may
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in exercising such rights, powers and
privileges, including all damages and
costs incurred by the taking of private
property, in the manner provided by
section 903 or, at their option, IN the
manner provided by sections $3.50
to 925-197a of the statutes.
2. Every city of the first and fourth
class shall have and possess. and may
exercise and pursue all the rights. pow
ers, privileges and procedure conferred,
granted or prescribed to or for cities of
the second and third class by this sec
tion except that no action shall be had
by any city of the first or fourth class
and villages under section 904, unless
the petition therein mentioned be
signed by all the owners of lots and
land AUDITING on the portion OF the
proposed to be discontinued, and two
thirds of the owners of lots and land
abutting on the remainder thereof, and
not otherwise.
Section 8. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.
Approved July 8, 1911. Copy Law.