Sec. 32-1. - Laying out sidewalks on petition of abutting landowners.

(a)

The city council is hereby authorized in its discretion, upon the petition of abutters on public highways, to make concrete, cement or granolothic sidewalks, according to the choice of such abutters on such public highways, such abutters so petitioning to pay one-half of the cost of such work and the city the other half. Such work, when ordered by the city council, shall be done under the direction of the department of public works.

(b)

The city council may make rules as to the payment of the cost of work done under this chapter by the abutters, or it may authorize the department of public works to make rules as to the payment of such cost.

(Code 1973, §§ 23-1, 23-2; Code 1994, § 34-1)

State Law reference— Division of cost between city and landowners, G.L. 1956, § 24-7-3.