The City Engineer shall certify to Council a detailed schedule of all sidewalks laid, widened or rebuilt and the cost of the same, from which schedule Council may be aided in determining the amount to be assessed as a special assessment against each lot or piece of ground. The City Engineer shall certify such other facts as may be necessary to enable Council to make the proper special assessment. He shall also certify to Council the acceptance of any sidewalk so improved or what other action he has taken with reference to the sidewalk. The City Engineer shall allocate the cost of sidewalk improvements to the adjoining lots or parcels of land and prepare all necessary data for assessment sheets.
If there is no duly qualified and acting City Engineer in the City, the City Manager shall perform all the duties required of the City Engineer with relation to any sidewalk improvements contemplated by this chapter.
(1958 Code § 23.54)