§ 6-201. General authority of Mayor and Aldermen.  


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  • (a)

    The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall have full power and authority to grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise improve any portion of the width of any street in said City, and to assess two-thirds of the cost of such paving, grading, macadamizing and otherwise improving on the real estate abutting on each side of the street or lane improved, a railroad company now having or which may hereafter have, tracks running through the streets of said City so improved being required to macadamize or otherwise pave, as the said Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah may direct, the width of its track and two feet on each side of every line of track.

    (b)

    The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall have full power and authority, by a vote of two-thirds of the said Mayor and Aldermen elected to council (the Mayor being entitled to vote), to adopt at any time an ordinance requiring the grading, paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving for travel or drainage, any of the streets or lanes of said City, and to assess two-thirds of the cost of such paving, grading, macadamizing or otherwise improving on the real estate abutting on each side of the street or lane improved—a railroad company now having or which may hereafter have, tracks running through the streets of said City so improved being required to macadamize or otherwise pave, as the said Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah may direct, the width of its track and two feet on each side of every line of track now constructed, or that may hereafter be constructed by such railroad company.

(1910 Ga. Laws, page 1142, §§ 1, 2)