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6-628 – Liability of Village in Certain Actions.

§ 6-628 Liability of village in certain actions. No civil action shall be maintained against the village for damages or injuries to person or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dangerous or obstructed or for damages or injuries to person or property […]

6-630 – Provisions Governing the Improvement of Highways in Villages.

§ 6-630 Provisions governing the improvement of highways in villages. l. The term “highway improvement,” as used in this section, shall mean the filling, excavating, grading, paving, draining and the laying of curbs, gutters, sidewalks upon or otherwise improving a state highway, or a highway constructed under a special act of the legislature having the […]

6-612 – Street Improvement or Acceptance.

§ 6-612 Street improvement or acceptance. The board of trustees may by resolution provide for laying out, altering, widening, narrowing, discontinuing or accepting the dedication of a street in the village.

6-614 – Notice of Meeting of Board.

§ 6-614 Notice of meeting of board. Upon adoption of a resolution the board shall immediately give notice of a hearing thereon at specified time and place to consider the resolution, and such hearing shall be conducted as provided in article twenty-one herein. The notice must state the general object of the resolution and if […]

6-616 – Changing Grade of Street or Bridge.

§ 6-616. Changing grade of street or bridge. 1. If a village has exclusive control and jurisdiction of a street or bridge therein, it may change the grade thereof. If such change of grade shall injuriously affect any building or land adjacent thereto, or the use thereof, the change of grade, to the extent of […]

6-618 – Streets on Boundary Lines.

§ 6-618 Streets on boundary lines. Whenever a street is on a line between two villages, or between a village and a city or town, the highway or street commissioners of such adjoining municipalities shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, meet at a time and place to be determined […]

6-620 – Sidewalks, Payment for Construction.

§ 6-620 Sidewalks, payment for construction. Whenever the owner or occupant of lands adjoining a street constructs along such street a sidewalk of stone, cement, brick or other similar materials to be approved by the board of trustees, and the board consents to bear a portion of the expense of construction thereof, the board of […]

6-622 – Pavements.

§ 6-622 Pavements. The board of trustees may cause a street in the village or a part thereof, to be graded and paved or repaved wholly at the expense of the village, or wholly at the expense of the owners of the adjoining land or partly at the expense of each. If the street or […]

5-526 – Petty Cash Account.

§ 5-526 Petty cash account. l. The board of trustees may, by resolution, establish a revolving petty cash account for any administrative unit or officer in such amount as is deemed necessary. Any such petty cash account shall continue in existence from year to year until abolished by like action. 2. Expenditures from a petty […]

5-528 – Appropriations to Maintain Municipal Conferences and Associations.

§ 5-528 Appropriations to maintain municipal conferences and associations. l. The board of trustees of any village is hereby authorized to annually include in the budget and raise by taxation a sum to meet its proportionate share of the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing the conference of mayors and other municipal officials […]