§ 25.1. Membership and duties The Commissioner of Public Works, President of the Board of Aldermen, and the Mayor shall constitute the Board of Highway Commissioners and shall have the same power to lay out, alter, resurvey, and discontinue streets and highways as is vested by law in selectboards of towns except as otherwise provided […]
§ 25.10. Failure of notice No proceedings instituted by the Board of Highway Commissioners under the citation, nor any proceedings subsequent and pertaining thereto, shall be void on account of any failure to give notice to any person or persons interested therein or shall for that reason be dismissed, but such proceedings shall be suspended […]
§ 25.2. Acceptance of streets (a) Streets and highways in the City may be laid out, opened, accepted, and established by the Board of Highway Commissioners, provided the owners having a majority of the frontage on the proposed street or highway file their petition therefor with the Clerk of the City. Such petition shall be […]
§ 25.3. Discontinuance of highways In case the Board of Highway Commissioners shall decide to discontinue any street or highway in the City, any person owning or interested in the lands abutting said street who is dissatisfied with such decision may within 60 days thereafter institute proceedings that shall have the same effect, be conducted […]
§ 25.4. Altering highways The said Board of Highway Commissioners shall have the power to raise or lower the surface of any street or highway of the City. The same proceedings shall be had in respect to awarding damages to the abutting owners upon such street or highway that they shall suffer by reason of […]
§ 25.5. Procedure Whenever under the provisions of this charter the Board of Highway Commissioners is required to give notice of the time and place of any examination or hearing before it touching the laying out, altering, or discontinuing any street or public highway in the City, or the award of any damages therefor, a […]
§ 25.6. Notice, citation, service (a) The citation shall be made at least 21 days prior to the time appointed for such examination or hearing, except when otherwise specially provided for in this charter. (b) Service of the citation may be accepted by any or all persons therein named, by endorsing their acceptance in writing […]
§ 25.7. Nonresident service (a) The citation may be served by the sheriff or constable upon a person not an inhabitant of this State by leaving a true and attested copy of the citation with his or her return endorsed, with, or at the residence of, his or her known agent or attorney, if he […]
§ 25.8. Evidence of service The return of the sheriff or constable upon the original citation, and the certificate of the Clerk and the receipts, shall be prima facie evidence of the service of the citation as herein provided. The citation and return thereon, with the certificates of the City Clerk and the receipts shall […]
§ 25.9. Defective notice; remedy (a) If at any stage of the proceedings before the Board of Highway Commissioners or in any proceedings subsequent thereto, it shall appear that any person owning or interested in such land shall not have been duly notified, the Board of Highway Commissioners or other tribunal in or before which […]
