The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-04-25
PETITIONS NOT NECESSARY
City Council Gan Act Independent of
Property Owners and Order Cost of
sprinkling Charged to Property Own
ers with Other Parts of Tax Roll.

He City council has decided TO have
sprinkllng in Kenosha done in keeping
with the provisions of the new state
law and in the future it will not be
necessary for property owners to get
petitions signed by majority Of the
property owners to have the streets
sprinkled. The council may order any
improved street sprinkled and has the
right under the state law to charge
the cost of such work to the property
in the tax roll.
The following are the pertinent pro-
visions Of the new law under which
the council is working:
Section 1.-The common council of
any city of the first and second class
In this state, whether organized under
special charter or under the general
laws, may at any time provide by
resolution or ordinance, by majority
recorded vote of the aldermen Of such
city, whether the streets, or any Ger,
tain streets. or portions of streets
within the corporate limits of such
city, shall. be flushed, watered or
sprinkled with water or solution, in
whole or in part, during the current
year.
Section 2.-Whenever the common
council Of any such city shall by reso-
luton or ordinance determine that
the streets, or certain parts Of streets
within such city, shall be so flushed,
watered or sprinkled during the then
current year, the board of public
works of such city shall provide for
such flushing sprinkling or watering
of such streets or parts of streets so
determined upon by such common
council, during the then current year
during such months or parts of months
and in such manner and with such
fluids as such board of public works
may adjudge to be conducive to pub
lie comfort and welfare. The expense
Of such flushing, watering or sprink-
ling, and the proportion of such ex-
pense to be borne by the owners of
lots or parcels of land abutting upon
such streets or portions of streets, and
the rate to be assessed upon each line
al foot of real estate upon such
streets or portions thereof, shall be
estimated and determined by the
board Of public works, and such de-
termination shall be based upon the
actual expense Of such flushing, water
or sprinkling, including all labor, APP
paratus, materials and solution used
except water, and the expense so de-
termined shall be assessed upon the
real estate abutting upon the streets
or portions Of the streets, flushed,
watered or sprinkled, in proportion to
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on the street or portion thereof so
watered or sprinkled.
Section 3.-The cost of flushing,
watering or sprinkling such streets or
parts of streets at intersections of
streets and alley crossings, public
grounds, and to the middle of such
streets adjacent to public grounds,
shall be paid out of the street and
alley fund Of such city, or such other
fund as such city may have in lieu of
such street and alley fund.
Section At shall be the duty of
the said board of public works of
such city to keep a strict account Of
the cost Of such work done upon such
streets, or portions thereof, in front
Of such lots or parcels of land abut-
ting upon such streets, or portions
thereof, and report to the city comp
troller of such city on the fifteenth
day of November Of each year, stat
ING and certifying the description of
the lands, parts of lots or parcels of
land in front of which flushing, water
ing or sprinkling chargeable thereto
shall have been done and the amount
chargeable to each such piece of prop
erty, and the said comptroller shall
at the time Of making his annual re
port to the common council of the
lots or parcels Of land subject to
special tax or assessment, include
therein the said lots or parcels of land
$50 reported to him by the board of
public works, with the amount charge
able therto for such flushing, water
ing or sprinkling during the preceding
year, and such amount shall be levied
on the lots or parcels of land respec-
lively to which they are 50 chargeable,
in like manner as other special taxes
are levied in said city.
Section 5-Each assessment so
levied as in the foregoing section pro-
vided, until collected, shall be a valid
lien on such lots, parts Of lots or par
GELS of land, and when collected shall
be credited to the street and alley
fdnd Of such city, or such fund as