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ORDINANCE SETTING OUT THE PROCESS FOR LAYING SIDEWALKS AND REGULATING FRONTAGE
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Whenever the Council shall determine to build a sidewalk or pavement on any of the public streets of said City of Jonesboro, they shall by order (two-thirds of the members of said Council voting thereof) determine the locality, beginning and ending points, grade, width, height, material and manner of construction thereof, and shall direct their standing committee on streets and alleys to proceed to contract for the material and construction thereof.
The said committee shall as soon as may be after the date of any such order, ascertain the whole cost of the said sidewalk or pavement, also the value of each separate piece of property, abutting on the same; the aggregate value of all abutting property of each individual owner, and the total value of all property abutting on such pavement as appears from the last real estate assessment list of Craighead County, and the cost of said pavement or sidewalk shall be assessed by said committee to the various owners of such abutting property in such manner that each owner shall pay such proportion of the total cost of such sidewalk or pavement as the value of the whole of said abutting property shall bear to the value of said owners’ abutting property.
As soon as the said committee shall have a completed assessment they shall report the same to the Council, and the same shall be considered by said Council at a public meeting of which notice shall be given in the newspaper of said town, and at which meeting any person who is dissatisfied with the assessment of the said committee, may apply to have the same modified or set aside. Provided, that the assessment of said committee as reported, or as modified by the Council, shall, when adopted by a two-thirds vote, become final.
The several amounts so to be assessed by the provisions of this ordinance shall be payable by the owner or owners of such abutting property at the time of the assessment personally, and shall also be a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of land in the possession of any such owner from the time of such assessment.
In case any amount so due under any such assessment shall not be paid within thirty days from and after the date of the final order of assessment by the Council, then steps shall be taken to collect the same by suit at law against the owner, or proceedings to enforce said lien, or both, at the discretion of the Council or its attorneys.
Whenever any porch, portico, platform or awning in front of any building shall project into the public street, the same shall if necessary be removed as the cost of the owner of such building, and the sidewalk or pavement in front of the same shall be made to conform to the order of the Council or its committee on streets and alleys.
Owners of property where sidewalks or pavements are or may be constructed shall have the privilege and option of constructing the pavement in front of their own property, and when any such owner shall construct the same to the satisfactory of the standing committee on streets and alleys, such owner shall not be assessed with any further cost or charge on account of such pavement. Provided that the work of constructing pavements or sidewalks shall in no case be delayed by any person in the exercise of his said option and any such delay shall forfeit his option.
Passed and approved this12th day of November, 1883