§ 18-23. Authority of common council to order street paving and grading work performed by special assessment without petition.
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The common council shall have jurisdiction and authority, without the petition or
consent of the owners of property affected thereby and liable to assessment therefor,
to order in any one year the paving of streets not to exceed ten (10) miles in length
and the grading or regrading of streets not to exceed six (6) miles in length. The
ordinance declaring its intention to make any such improvement shall not be passed
except by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the common council and when approved
by the mayor shall be deemed a substitute for the petition or consent of property
owners and thereafter the same notices shall be served and the same steps and proceedings
had and taken and the expense thereof be provided for, defrayed, assessed, levied
and collected in the same manner and by the same proceedings as in the case of a like
improvement instituted by petition or consent of property owners.
