If the owner of any real property next adjacent to any sidewalks, crosswalks, drains and gutters within said City, shall fail or refuse to curb, pave, recurb or repave or to keep the same clean in the manner or within the time required by the Council, it shall be the duty of the Council to cause the same to be done at the expense of the City and to assess the amount of such expenses to such owner of the property abutting thereon and the same may be collected by the City Collector and Treasurer in the same manner provided for the collection of City taxes. Council shall always have authority to pave or repave, curb or recurb or otherwise permanently improve streets, alleys, crosswalks, drains and gutters and sewers in said City at the expense of the City.
The City of Wellsburg having upon the ninth day of April, 1908, by a special election, adopted, chapter 8 of the Acts of the legislature of 1908, as a method for paving and sewering within said City, therefor, section 8-8-1, et seq., West Virginia Code 1931, is hereby adopted and made a part of the Charter of the City of Wellsburg, with the exception that all paving and repaving, curbing and recurbing and sewering, which shall be done in the City, the whole cost thereof, other than that portion which is chargeable to a street railway company, or other railway company, shall, including the intersection of streets and alleys, be charged to the owners of the property abutting upon any street so improved or sewered.