Chap. 69.—An ACT to allow the city of Norfolk to require the city or the
property owners to build or keep in repair the sidewalks, or both build and
keep in repair the same.

Approved February 12, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred, entitled an act giving
power to the councils of the city of Norfolk to require owners of property
abutting on strects, 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 occu-
pant, that the owner shall build or repair, and his neglect to do so, to
build or repair the walk and have the costs therefor assessed as a lien
against the property and imposing a penalty for a violation of ordinances
passed in pursuance thereof, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
The councils of the city of Norfolk shall have the power to
require the owners of property abutting on streets cither to pave or keep
in repair, or both pave or keep in repair the sidewalks in front of and
adjacent to their property; or to require, when the councils deem such
pavement or repair necessary or proper, that the city cither 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 and adjacent
to which such walk is required to be built or repaired, that such owner
shall build and repair the same, and if such owner shall neglect, for a
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
committee 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 ordi-
nances passed in pursuance of this act, be subject to fine to be deter-
mined by ordinancce, 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 constructed, and to regulate their width and manner of
construction.

3. This act shall include and apply to the fifth or Brambleton ward
and to the sixth or Atlantic City ward of the city of Norfolk.

4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.