Case Name: ANDERSON BOURGEOIS, PROSECUTOR, v. OCEAN CITY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1904-02-23
Citations: 70 N.J.L. 622
Docket Number: 
Parties: ANDERSON BOURGEOIS, PROSECUTOR, v. OCEAN CITY.
Judges: Before Justices Fort, G-arretson and Pitney.
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 70
Pages: 622–623

Head Matter:
ANDERSON BOURGEOIS, PROSECUTOR, v. OCEAN CITY.
Argued November 6, 1903
Decided February 23, 1904.
Improvements on the ocean front end of streets and the construction of proper approaches thereto upon the streets are street improvements, and under the forty-eighth section of the charter of Ocean City (Pamph. L. 1897, p. 70), can only be authorized by ordinance.
On certiorari.
Before Justices Fort, G-arretson and Pitney.
For the prosecutor, Albert A. Howell and Edmund B. Learning.
For the defendant, David J. Pancoast and James M. E. Hildreth.

Opinion:
Pjsr Curiam.
There appears tobe no authority for the city of Ocean City to make the street improvements proposed to be made under the resolution brought up by the writ except in the manner pointed out in section 48, subdivision 3, of the city charter. Pamph. L. 1897, p. 70. Under this section of the charter all such street improvements must be authorized by ordinance. Conceding, but not deciding, that the city of Ocean City has the power to malee the improvements on the ocean front ends of the streets and constructs proper approaches thereto upon the streets, still it is clear that such improvements are within legal contemplation street improvements and must be carried out by ordinance.
If the improvements contemplated by the resolution brought up are not properly designated as street improvements then the resolution must fail for lack of power to prove it. No authority was cited other than the authority to improve streets to sustain the action of the council in passing the resolution. We find none in the city charter. Pamph. L. 1897, p. 46.
The resolution is without authority and will be set aside, with costs.