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The Board of Officers provided for in ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 11-84-2, shall consist of the Mayor, City Clerk and City Engineer, or if there is no City Engineer, then the Superintendent of Streets. The Mayor shall act ex-officio as chairman of the Board, and the City Clerk as Clerk thereof. The Clerk shall be the keeper of the records of the Board.
('68 Code, § 6.25)
All sidewalks laid after 1953 shall be of uniform width, lines and grade; provided that no sidewalk of less width than five feet shall be constructed except to connect with a four-foot concrete sidewalk previously laid and accepted. In the Pine Acres Subdivision to the city it shall be lawful to construct sidewalks three feet in width. All sidewalks shall be of concrete. Any sidewalk or pavement which does not conform substantially to the grade, or line, or to the materials and workmanship required, is declared to be a nuisance, and the person building the same, or the owner of the adjoining premises, shall remove the same on five days' notice from the City Engineer. In such case, the walk may be summarily removed and reconstructed by the city, and the expense collected from the property owner.
('68 Code, § 6.25)
A sidewalk is hereby declared to be a local improvement and the cost thereof and the expense connected therewith to be paid for by special taxation of the lot, lots and parcels of land contiguous to and abutting on said street and touching upon the line of said improvement according to and in proportion to their frontage on said sidewalk. The levy of such cost shall be made against each lot, lots and parcels of land touching upon the line of said sidewalk, according to its frontage upon said street.
('68 Code, § 6.25)
It shall be the duty of the Board of Officers of the city, without delay, after the passage of any ordinance for such improvement to send by mail to each party who paid the last general taxes on the respective lot, lots or parcels of land touching on or contiguous to the line where said sidewalk is to be constructed, a notice of the passage of such ordinance and it shall be the duty of each owner of any lot or parcel of land touching the line where the sidewalk is ordered to be constructed, to construct such sidewalk in front of their respective lots or parcels of land in accordance with the specifications within 30 days after the mailing of the notice of the passage of such ordinance addressed to the party who paid the last general taxes on the respective lots or parcels of land.
('68 Code, § 6.25)
In default thereof, the city will enter into a contract for the furnishing of said material and the construction of the sidewalk as hereinafter provided. The cost thereof shall be charged to and against the lots or parcels of land along the line of said street where the said sidewalk is to be built according to the frontage thereof and to be collected as hereinafter provided.
('68 Code, § 6.25)
The material and construction of a sidewalk shall be under the supervision of and subject to the approval of the Board of Officers of the city. Whenever the owner of any lot, lots or parcels of land touching upon the line of this improvement shall desire to build his own sidewalk in conformity with this subchapter, it shall be the duty of the Board of Officers of the city, upon demand of such owner, within 30 days after the mailing of the notice as aforesaid, to see he is furnished with grade stakes and a copy of this subchapter. All such sidewalks as provided for in this subchapter constructed by the owner or owners in front of the lot, lots or parcels of land as hereinbefore provided shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Officers of the city and shall fully conform to the requirements of this subchapter.
('68 Code, § 6.25)
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