The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-03-28
Amendment to City Charter

w wy Ossus W.
Ordered by the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen of the city of Grenada that
section II of the charter of said city be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section II. The mayor and board of
aldermen shall have power, in thair dis
erection, to require special improve
ments to be made on the whole or any
part of any public street, avenue, lane
or alley in the municipality, and to tax
the cost thereof on the property own
ers whose property adjoins any street,
avenue, lane or alley, or any part
thereof, ordered to be improved. The
cost of such special improvement may
be assessed against the adjoining own
ers in the nj hereinafter specified.
(2) The word street" in this amend
ment shall include all public streets,
the words Especial improvement" shall
include only the construction of i'm
provements on streets, but when ap-
piled to sidewalk improvements shall
include both the construction and re-
pair thereof.
81 When, in the judgment Of the
mayor and board of aldermen, any
special improvement is necessary on
any street in the city, they may use
their discretion as to whether the gen.
eral improvement fund shall be used
to make same. If they are Of the
opinion that said fund is not sufficient,
or should not be used, to make the i'm
%provement, it may be ordered and re-
quired to be paid for in the manner
hereinafter directed.
IA The mayor and board of alder
men shall be the sole judges as to the
necessity for the special improvement
and as to whether or not the cost shall
be assessed against the property own
ers; but the method adopted for the
payment of the improvement must be
the same on all streets of the city, and
in case the city has already commenced
any particular improvement it must
continue to assess the cost on all own
ers of property in the anne way that
the assessment was made before this
amendment, to the end that all persons
may be compelled to pay for the same
character of improvements on an equal
basis; provided that this amendment
shall not apply to property owned by
the state.
(5) When the mayor and board of
aldermen shall deem necessary any
special improvement on any street of
the city and in their judgment the gen.
eral improvement fund should not be
used for the purpose of making the i'm
p%rovement, a special tax to make same
may be levied as herein indicated. In
such case the board shall, by resolu-
ton, declard the improvement necessa-
ry. The resolution shall describe the
character of the special improvement
proposed; shall fix the street or part of
street on which it is proposed to have
it made; shall state whether the pro-
posed improvement is to be made on
the street or sidewalk, and shall desig-
nate between what points the street or
streets shall be improved, whether the
whole length or only a part of the
street.
W) When the above resolution is
passed, it shall be published in some
newspaper published in the city once q
week for three successive weeks. II
shall not be necessary that any particl
ular number of days intervene between
the first and last publication, if the nos
tice in fact appear in the paper three
different times in three different weeks
ca When any notice is required tn
be published in a newspaper by any
provisions of this amendment and there
be no newspaper in the municipality,
then the notice may be published by
putting same in three or more public
places in the city for three full weeks,
one of the places to be at the mayors
] Office. .
(8) The property owners actually
residing on property owned by them
and included within that part of any
street ordered to be specially improved,
or otherwise actually occupying prop
erty owned by them and included with
in that part of the street ordered to be
specially improved, may file a protest
with the mayor and aldermen against
the proposed improvement. If a ma
jority of such property owners shall
protest against the proposed improve
ment, then it shall not be made, the
parties having the right to protest must
file the protest with the clerk of the
mayor and board of aldermen within
ten days after the completion of the
publication of the resolution aforesaid.
81 At the first regular meeting Of
the mayor and board of aldermen after
the completion of the publication OF
said resolution, they shall meet at theil
usual place of meeting for the purpose
of considering objections of all inter
ested parties to the proposed improve
ment. At this meeting the objections
of all property owners who appear shall
be heard and considered. whether the
property owner actually occupy hi,
property adjoining the street or not
and regardless of whether the property
owner is resident or nonresident; buI
the board shall have the power to dis,
allow any and all objections and pro
coed with the work, If, in the judgmen'
of the mayor and board of aldermen, !
is proper so to do, unless there be
written protest from a majority O
those property owners given the RICH
under this amendment to defeat tn,