§ 100. Apportionment of city’s expense of improvements. The common council may, by ordinance approved by the board of estimate and apportionment, fix and determine the amount and proportion of the expense which shall be borne by the city at large for opening, altering, grading, curbing or paving a street, or for constructing therein a […]
§ 101. Discontinuance of streets. Whenever the common council shall contemplate the discontinuance of any street, it shall cause a notice to be published for ten days in the official newspaper or newspapers of the city of its intention so to do, and that all persons interested may be heard in reference thereto at a […]
§ 102. Streets by prescription. All lands which shall have been used by the public as a street for twenty years or more continuously shall be a street with the same force and effect as if it had been duly laid out and recorded as such.
§ 103. Acquisition of lands. Whenever any real estate or interest therein shall be required for any municipal purpose, except as otherwise provided by law, the commissioner of public works may acquire for the city the necessary land and real estate by gift or by purchase, at a price approved by the board of estimate […]
§ 90. Commissioner and deputy commissioner of public works. The commissioner of public works shall be the head of the department of public works. He shall appoint, to hold office during his pleasure, a deputy and such other subordinates as may be prescribed by the board of estimate and apportionment. In case of the absence […]
§ 91. Powers and duties of commissioner. The commissioner, subject to the provisions of law and ordinances of the common council, has cognizance, direction and control of the construction, maintenance, alteration, repair, care, cleaning, paving, flagging, lighting and improving of the streets, highways, sidewalks and public places of the city; of the construction, alteration and […]
§ 92. Repair of sidewalks; removal of snow and ice. The commissioner of public works shall have full power and authority to require the owner of property abutting upon a street to repair any sidewalk in front thereof or bring the same to true grade, and to remove the snow and ice therefrom. Where the […]
§ 93. Performance of public work to be certified. All public work performed pursuant to contract under the supervision or control of the commissioner shall, before it is accepted, be certified to by him to the effect that such work has been performed in a good and substantial manner with the materials required, of the […]
§ 94. Water works. In case the city owns and operates a system of municipal water works, the commissioner of public works shall appoint, to hold office during his pleasure, a superintendent of water works, who shall have, under the direction of the commissioner, the supervision, care, management and control of the water department and […]
§ 95. Collection of water rents. All water rents shall be collected from the owners of the lots and buildings which shall be situated upon any street or avenue upon which the distributing pipes are now or may hereafter be laid, and from which such lots and buildings can be supplied with water. Water rents, […]
§ 96. Superintendent of parks. Unless otherwise provided by law, the commissioner of public works shall appoint, to hold office during his pleasure, a superintendent of parks, who shall have, under the direction of the commissioner, the supervision, care, management and control of all the parks of the city and of such portions of the […]
§ 97. City engineer. No person shall be eligible to appointment as city engineer unless he be a civil engineer of at least five years’ practical experience in his profession. He shall appoint, to hold office during his pleasure, a deputy and such other subordinates as may be prescribed by the board of estimate and […]
§ 98. Duties of city engineer. It shall be the duty of the city engineer to perform all the ordinary engineering and surveying services in the affairs and business of the city and to supervise, under the general direction of the commissioner of public works, all the work done for the city in which the […]
§ 99. Alteration of grades and names of streets. The grade of any street shall not be fixed or established except by direction of the common council. The grade of a street heretofore or hereafter legally established shall not be changed, except by direction of the common council, and except also upon compensation for damages […]
