Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22


the regular tax roll to be collected as
other taxes are collected.
Section 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's
| passage and publication.
Approved May IA, 1913. Copy Law
No. 584, Al Published May Is, 1913.
CHAPTER 232, LAWS OF 1913.
AN ACT-To create sections 90Sm
90Sn, $3.50, 903p, $3.50 and 908r of the
statutes, relating to Improvement of
streets in villages located in coun-
ties with a population of over one
hundred fifty thousand.
/ The people of the State of Wisconsin,
! represented in Senate and Assembly
! do enact as follows:
Section L. There are added to the
| ton 908n. The village beard of any
village located in a county with pop
ulation of over one hundred fifty thou
sand may cause any part of any street
j length to be graded paved, macadam-
lied, or otherwise improved, or any
! curb or cutters to be built, and assess
! the whole or any part of the cost
thereof, exclusive of the cost of street
and alley crossings which shall be
paid out Of the general fund, upon
the property adjoining such portion of
! such. street or alley proportional to
| the frontage, upon a petition of a ma
jority of the owners of property front
| ing upon such portion of such street
or alley, including the, owners of at
least one-half of such frontage ex-
| cept that when any curb or gutter is
! to be built on one side of a street only,
a petition of Il majority of the owners
! on such side only shall be sufficient
after an estimate of the cost thereof
made by an engineer employed by the
village shall have been filed for ten
days in the office of the village clerk
and may by resolution at any general
, or special meeting order any curb or
| gutter previously built to be put in
repair when necessary, without petit
ton.
Section 9o8n. Each person signing
such petition as the owner of such
property, shall be required to write
! after his signature thereto, a brief de-
scription of the property so owned by
Thin, it's frontage on such street or al
ley, and of the place of his residence
and annex thereto an affidavit that he
is such owner, and thereupon he shall
! be taken to be such owner and such
petition shall be valid and have the
same effect as if such person were
the owner of such property as
stated in his affidavit, although in fact
| it should thereafter appear that he
was not such owner. Upon the com
pletion of such work the board of
trustees shall make and file with the
village clerk a correct and certified
copy of the cost of such portion of
such work not payable out of the gen
eral fund, and the share thereof APP
portioned to each separately owned
/ piece VI lbuo lEOutlHS upon SUCH pOT-
ton Of such street or alley, which
| amount shall be lien upon such piece
of land from the date of ordering such
work and unless the same be paid be-
| fore the period for the next return of
unpaid taxes, the same shall be en-
| tered and collected the same as other
| village taxes, and collection thereof
enforced in the same manner as other
unpaid real estate taxes. The village
| board may also give a separate GER
| tificate or special Improvement bond
| for the amount so assessed against
| each such piece of land, and may de-
| liver such certificates or such special
| improvement bonds to the contractor
| in part payment of his work, and such
certificates shall entitle the contractor
to demand and receive the amounts
| thereon when such assessment shall
! be collected by the proper village or
county officers, with any interest
which shall have been collected there
| on.
Section $3.50. The village board may
| by resolution or ordinance direct that
the village clerk, instead of entering
| in the tax roll the amount so charged
( against each such piece of land for
| the expense of such work, shall cause
notice to be given by publication
thereof in some newspaper published
! in said village, six times a week for
| one week, or if there be no newspaper
published in said village, then a copy
of such notice shall be posted in three
public places in said village for one
!
such parcel of land shall within thirty
| days after the date of such notice, file
written election with such clerk to
| have the expense of such work col
lected in not more than five annual
equal instruments, and if such election
! is filed, then special Improvement
bonds shall be issued by the village
covering such expense. The bonds so
issued shall bear interest at a rate not
| to exceed six per cent and shall be
| coupon bonds, each bond to contain
| IL,
and one coupon and the annual inter-
! est on such bond shall upon preSe1ta-
! ton to the village treasurer be paid
annually on each first day Of February
| thereafter until all such coupons and
| the interest on such bonds are paid
/ in full. The village clerk shall annu-
ally enter in the tax roll as a special
| tax against the owner of any such lot
or parcel of land electing to pay in
! instruments the expense of such work
! appOrtiOned to such lot or piece of
land, the amount of one instalment and
| the annual interest on said bond, to
become due the following first day of
February, until all such instruments
and interest thereon are paid in full;
and the same shall be collected in all
respects as are other village taxes on
real estate; and the amount so annu-
ally collected shall be used by the viii
, lage treasurer to pay the coupons of
such bond payable February first next
thereafter and the interest thereon, as
heretofore provided. And provided
further that the fling of such election
shall cure all defects in the proceed
ings and defects of power on the part
of the officers making such assess
ments and issuing such bonds.
| Section 908p. The village board may,
however, cause such work to be done
without the petition mentioned in sec
ton 9O8n, if the board shall first de-
termine by vote of at least five of the
seven members thereof that such i'm
provelnent is necessary for the public
welfare, and the resolution ordering
| such work done shall have been re-
ferred to the committee on streets,
and shall have been reported to the
village board by such committee with
it's recommendation that it be adopted,
before vote shall be taken upon it's
adoption; and provided further, such
resolution shall declare why it is nee
essary for the public welfare to pro-
Eceed without such petition; and shall
also upon it's passage be supported by
! the votes of at least five of the seven
members of such village board; provid-
ed further, that such resolution order
ing such work to be done without
such petition shall not be voted upon
or passed at any meeting of the vii
lage board, excepting a regular meet
ing held at least four weeks after it's
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