Chap. 488.—An ACT giving power to the councils of the city of Norfolk to
require owners of property abutting on streets, or to require the city to
pave or keep in repair, or both pave and keep in repair, the sidewalks, and
giving the councils power, acting through a board or committee, after
notice to the owner or occupant that the owner shall build or repair, and
his neglect to do so, to build or repair the walk and have the costs thereof
assessed as a lien against the property and imposing a penalty for violation
of ordinances passed in pursuance thereof.

Approved February 21, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the councils
of the city of Norfolk shall have power to require the owners of prop-
erty abutting on streets either to pave or keep in repair, or both pave
and keep in repair, the streets in front of their property; or to require,
when the councils deem such pavement or repair necessary or proper,
that the city either pave or keep in repair, or both pave and keep in
repair, its sidewalks.

2. The councils of said city shall have power to provide and ordain
by ordinance that whenever any sidewalk in said city requires to be
built or repaired the board of street, sewer, and drain commissioners,
or other board or committee designated by the councils, shall notify the
owner or occupant of any lot or parcel of land in front of or adjacent
to which such walk is required to be built or repaired, that such owner!
shall build or repair the same, and if such owner shall neglect, for
time to be specified in such ordinance, to do such building or repairing
the councils may by such ordinance make it the duty of such board
or cuminittee to do or cause the same to be done, and in such case the
expense thereof shall be assessed upon such lot or parcel of land, and
shall be a lien thereon until collected and paid in a manner prescribed in
such ordinances, and such owner shall, for failure to obey the ordinances
passed in pursuance of this act, be subject to a fine to be determined by
ordinance, not to exceed, however, five hundred dollars. The councils shall
also have power by ordinance, by-laws, or resolutions, to determine and
designate the materials of which sidewalks in the city shall be con-
structed, and to regulate their width and manner of construction.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.