The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-02-24


further disturb bed of such street
for period of five years; and the
Council may provide appropriate
penalties for violations of its ordin-
ance.
So. The Council may levy a tax
rate for purposes of paying all or the
City's share of the costs of street
construction or improvement; pro-
vided that the levy shall be made on
ly once a year, at the time of the
annual levy of taxes by the Council,
and the streets levy shall be included
in the general levy.
SO. All grading, paving, repairing
and improving of the sidewalks,
curbs and cutters, or any of them,
along the public thoroughfares of
Hagerstown shall be performed
either by the City of Hagerstown or
by the abutting property owner
when directed by the Council, and
the entire cost thereof shall be paid
by the abutting property owner;
provided, however, that once the
abutting property owner has paid
the cost of said pavement, curb, or
gutter, and changes made in the
grade or location of said pavement,
curb, or gutter for any purpose,
other than to keep said pavement,
curb or gutter in a reasonable state
of repair, shall be at the expense of
the City and not at the expense of
the AUDITING property owner
so. The City of Hagerstown may
provide by general ordinance for
the cleaning and removal of snow
and ice from the sidewalks within
its corporate limits by its own ser
wants agents, or contractors, and for
the cutting and removal of weeds
within the area extending between
the curb-line of any street or other
highway within said corporate limits
and line two feet back of the in
side walk line of any such sidewalk,
by its own servants, agent, or con-
tractors, the actual or established
minimum cost of cleaning and re-
moving snow and ice, as aforesaid,
and cutting and removing weeds, as
aforesaid to be collected as are mu-
nicipal taxes, and said charges shall
be and they are hereby declared to
be liens upon the AUDITING property
after the same have been approved
by an order of the Council and a
statement Thereof placed in the hands
of the City Tax Collector and Treas
urer, provided that said property has
not previously been conveyed to an
innocent party for value without
knowledge of such charges; and the
Council is authorized and empowered
to establish by the general ordinance
aforesaid minimum cost of cleaning
and removing snow and ice, as
aforesaid, and cutting and remov-
ing weeds, as aforesaid, of not more
than five cents for each lineal foot
of sidewalk from which snow and
ice may be so cut and removed.
81 The City Of Hagerstown shall
have the right to condemn the parts
of all public highways, lying within
the limits of the City. for public use,
and to open, widen, straighten or
close up the same, in whole or in
part; provided, free access is allowed
to all public roads running to the
limits Of said City through the high
ways of the City.
g. The Council shall have and is
hereby vested with power to direct
The laying out, opening, extending,
widening, Strengthening or closing up,
in whole or in part, of any street,
highway, square, lane, alley, sewer,
sanitary sewer drain or water course
within the bounds of the City, which,
in their opinion, public convenience
may require.
g. The City of Hagerstown shall
have the power to regulate all sub
divisions of land within the cor
porate limits of the City of Hagers-
town, and also within one mile out
side thereof, and for the purpose of
carrying into effect this subsection
no plat or plan of any such sub-di-
vision upon which any street, alley,
: lane, avenue, thoroughfare, or public
highway shall have been laid out,
shall be received by the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Washington
County for recording among the
Land Records of Washington Coun-
ty until the said plat or plan has
been approved in writing by the
Council of HagerStown and said ap-
proval stamped thereon. The Coun-
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