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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
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Charter of the City of Lake City
work according to special benefits and other pro­
cedure shall be the same and shall have like effect 43/257
as above provided where such work has already
been completed.
Sec. 6. The Mayor and City Council are here­
by authorized, by ordinance, to regulate, provide
for and require the opening, widening and extend-
ng and improving of streets, avenues and public
places; the construction and maintenance of side­
walks and street pavements; the establishment and
maintenance and keeping in order of grass plots
and parkways in front of property between the
property lines or outer sidewalk lines and the drive­
ways in the center of streets; the drainage and fill­
ing in of low places, public or private, dangerous to
public health, and the cleaning up and putting
into proper condition of places requiring such work
to be done to promote the public welfare; and the
construction and maintenance of water mains,
sewers and drains; and may, by ordinance, provide
for the payment of the cost thereof by general tax­
ation or by special assessment of the cost thereof
against the property fronting or abutting upon the
street, avenue or public place where the same is
done, in proportion to frontage of the property
fronting thereon, the special assessment being
made per front foot of the abutting property, or
part of the cost thereof may be, by ordinance, paid
by general taxation of all property, of the city, and
the remainder by such special assessment, and in
cases of drainage and filling in of low places (other
than streets, avenues and public places) dangerous
to public health, and the cleaning up and putting
into proper condition of places requiring such work
to be done to protect the public welfare, shall pro­

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