Council may order and cause to be constructed, under the supervision of the City Manager, such street, avenue and alley crossings and crosswalks of such materials as Council may deem necessary. When a petition for the construction of any such crossing by the City is filed by an interested resident of the City in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer, the Clerk-Treasurer shall refer the petition forthwith to the City Manager who shall investigate and then submit the petition, together with his recommendation for allowance or rejection, to Council for final action.
All crosswalks shall be built and maintained by the City, shall be of the same material and shall be built in the same general manner as sidewalks but of such width as the City Engineer shall in each case determine and of such elevation as to allow free drainage of surface water in its usual and natural course.
(1958 Code § 23.8)