Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — About Street Improvements. [ARTICLE]

About Street Improvements.

For -Jhe benefit of the readers of The Democrat, the statute on street improvement which became a law some few weeks ago is published below. The contemplated improvements in this city come under the provisions of this law. Following is the section relating to remonstrants against public improvements: “That in no incorporated town or city of this state of less than twelve thousand inhabitants, shall any assessment be made upon, or any lien attach to, any real estate bordering on, or abating upon,' any street, sidewalk or alley therein, from or on account of any improvement of any kind made upon or in, any such street, side walk or alley .pursuant to any order, resolution, ordinance, or other action of the Board of Trustees of such town, or of the Common Council of such city, unless such improvement shall have first been ordered to be made by such Board of Trustees, or by such Common Council, and not then if a written remonstrance signed by two-thirds of the resident owners of the whole line of lots and parts of lots (measuring only the front line of such lots and parts of lots as belong to persons resident on such street in such town or city,) bordering on or abutting upon, all the parts of such street, side walk or alley upon which, or in which, such improvement shall have been ordered to be made, be filed before the said improvement be advertised for contract. Provided, however, that such Board of Trustees and Common Council shall have power to require such repairs to be made upon the streets and sidewalks of their respective towns and cities as may be necessary to avoid the liability of such towns and cities for damages on account of accident which might occur if such repairs were not made, and to enforce payment of the cost of such repairs according to the provisions of the Statutes now in force ”