§ 31. Streets and sidewalks.

The city council shall have power to designate or alter the width, course, height, grade and level of the streets of said city and to order the owner or owners of land and buildings fronting on highways and streets of said city, to make suitable walks of such material as it may deem proper, and to designate the time within which the same shall be done and the manner of doing it. It shall have the further power to order each such owner to provide and erect such railings or guards along the sidewalks in front of the owner's premises as public safety may require and to keep the owner's sidewalk in repair. The city is also authorized to perform all work and to provide all necessary material for improvements of streets, curbs, gutters and sidewalks, and repairs to sidewalks, as may be ordered by the city council, and it may assess the cost or a portion thereof upon property benefited thereby as is provided by section thirty-seven hereof.

(Amend. eff. 12-8-11)

Legislative history— Sp. No. 352, § 26, 1911; Sp. No. 367, 1913; Sp. No. 87, 1925, Sp. No. 434, § 54, 1931; Sp. No. 484, § 34, 1939.