Sec. 8.
The council shall have control of all sidewalks in the public streets and alleys of the village and may prescribe or change the grade of the sidewalks when considered necessary. The council may build, maintain, and keep in repair sidewalks and cross walks in the public streets and alleys, and charge the expense of constructing and maintaining the sidewalks upon the lots and premises adjacent to and abutting upon the walks. The council may require the owners and occupants of lots and premises to build, rebuild, and maintain sidewalks in the public streets adjacent to and abutting upon the lots and premises and to keep them in repair at all times, and to construct and lay the sidewalks upon such lines and grades, and of such width, materials, and manner of construction, and within such time as the council shall, by ordinance or resolution, prescribe, the expense thereof to be paid by the owner or occupant. The council may by a 2/3 vote of the members pay such part of the expense of building or rebuilding such walk as they may consider proper from the general street fund, or from the street district fund of any street district in which the sidewalk is located.
History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895 ;-- CL 1897, 2776 ;-- CL 1915, 2647 ;-- CL 1929, 1556 ;-- CL 1948, 67.8 ;-- Am. 1983, Act 205, Imd. Eff. Nov. 10, 1983
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