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CHAPTER 28 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE 1 THE City OF FAYETTEVILLE
Resolution requiring sidewalks to be laid. The board of aldermen shall have authority to order and direct by suitable resolution that sidewalk or sidewalks be laid upon any street or streets or sections, or portions thereof, within the city in conformity with plans and specifications prescribed and fixed by the board, and to require, in the boards discretion, that the owner or owners of any lot or lots fronting and abutting upon any such street or streets or portion thereof shall lay such sidewalk across the frontage of such lot or lots at the cost of such owner or owners. When any such resolution is adopted by the board, it shall give personal notice to the owner or owners of any lot or lots affected thereby if such owner or owners can be found within the city, but if such owner or owners cannot be found within the city, then publication of such resolution once in each of two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the city shall be deemed and held to be sufficient notice. If the owner or owners of any lot or lots across the frontage of which it is required that a sidewalk be laid shall fail to comply with Private5 the terms of such resolution within the time therein specified, then the city of Fayetteville shall cause such sidewalk or sidewalks to be laid at its expense and the entire cost thereof and interest shall thereupon be especially assessed and collected from such lot or lots in the manner prescribed by chapter fifty-six, article nine of the Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina of nineteen hundred nineteen.