(A) Execution by owners. All petitions for street improvements must be signed in ink by the owners of the property signed for, or by their duly authorized agents.
(B) Execution when town owns property. Whenever the abutting landowners on any street petition to have the same improved and the town owns property along the street whereon the improvement is desired, the Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to sign the petition in the name of the town for the full frontage of the property owned by the town along the street.
(C) Right to withdraw signature. Any person shall have the right to withdraw his or her signature from a petition for the pavement or repavement of a street, but the withdrawal must be in the handwriting of the withdrawing petitioner and shall state that it is his or her own act uninfluenced by persuasion from any person manufacturing competing products.
(D) Effect of withdrawal of signature. Any person who has signed a petition for the pavement or repavement of a street or portion of a street and withdraws his or her signature therefrom thereafter will not be considered on any petition for pavement or repavement; that is, the withdrawing person can sign any other paving petition, but the town will not pass the other petition unless the required number of feet is signed in addition to that of the party who had withdrawn his or her signature.
(E) Misrepresentation to induce withdrawal of signers. No person shall appeal personally to signers of the petitions to withdraw their names and in making the appeals misrepresent the facts, either as to the cost of the respective pavements or any other fact connected therewith.
(Prior Code, § 4-1003)