The Town Council shall meet on the first Thursday evening of the month of June of each year at the Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. At which time and place sealed bids shall be publicly opened and duly considered for the letting of a general contract for the improvement, construction, and repairing of all sidewalks of a specified material within the town for the succeeding year, which the property owner shall fail to construct or repair within the time fixed in this subchapter. Each bid must be accompanied by a statutory affidavit of non-collusion and a certified check to be drawn on the First State Bank of Bourbon, and made payable to the town, for the sum of $100 to ensure the execution of the contract for which said bids are made, and that he or she will give a bond with surety to be approved by the Town Council ensuring the faithful performance of such work as is required in the improvement resolution, and to comply with all the terms, stipulations, and conditions of the contract. The letting of such contract shall be in a manner provided by law, and the entire cost of such sidewalk improvement or repair shall be assessed against the property owner abutting upon such sidewalk or sidewalks, and the assessment thereof shall be levied and collected as authorized by law.
(Prior Code, § 5.6)