Show BILLS TO RELIEVE CITY'S DEBT I I Proposed Law Would Compel Prop Property Owners to Pay All Costs ON STREET INTERSECTIONS I Mayor Bransford d and American Amer Arner- I I ican Party Administration Are Behind Movement An public Improvements will ho bo done at tho the expense of ot tho property owners own own- ers ors benefited Intersections and a all If It Senate bill No introduced by Senator Sen Sen- ator Carl A A. Badger yesterday at nt tho time request of certain members of tho the Salt Lake Lako City administration becomes bo- bo comes effective This Is la tho the matter mat mat- ter alluded to In the tho message of Mayor Bransford to the tho city council and Is cities being done dono In most of tho the Western The Time bill blU includes all classes clasHes of cities cilles but ut may later Inter be amended to include only first nut second and third class cluss citIes cit cit- ies lee As to assessments the bill says gays Tho The entire cost of paving macall- macall repaying grading curbing and guttering of streets and alleys and of at constructing sewers rs and sidewalks within any Improvement district In Including In- In eluding tho tIme intersections of at streets and spaces opposite alleys nUe's within such district dis dis- dis shall ahall be assessed upon the lots and lands hands abutting upon tho the streets and alleys In such uch district In proportion tion lion to tho the square quare feet teet or feet teet front trant or both so abutting upon such Ruch streets and alleys alles The Tho asses assessment ment will wm include all aU costs for tor time the Improvement such ouch as the contract contract con con- tract price engineering Inspection I publishing notices notice and making the tax levies lovles Paving Pa Improvements are to be bo paid In ten equal installments and five payments for sidewalks sowers curbing and anti guttering The Tho bill amends several overa sections of ot time the pre present on t Ja laws 8 and repeals section 12 chapter chapt r H 14 H. H of ot tho the Complied Compiled Laws of 1907 Companion Bills Two companion bills wore Introduced at the same samo time by Senator Badger I at the request of the city officials of ot I Salt Lake Bill BIJJ provides that partial par par- partial payments for tor Improvements shaU haU be bo paid In equal Installments of one ono year ear apart tl to the tho contractor At present pros pres ent the city could mako make a contractor wait walt until the tho work vork Is completed or until the time limit or ton term years run out before paying a cent on Im Improvements un- un This bill repeals section of the Compiled Complied Laws Lans Time The third bill from the tho city officials No lOG amends section 1117 of th the e Complied Compiled Laws seeking to give Ivo cities citie es s of oC the first and second classes the tho right t to la lay out establish open or accept t tt the dedication of at streets avenues u boulevards and antl alJe alleys of any width the council of such cities shall deem prop proper or Tho The bill dealing with assessing assessing- th tho o total cost of Improvement against th the oe ol e property owners Is 18 considered of vital vita l Importance to Salt Snit Like lee and other othe r large cities of Utah Under the present present present pres pres- ent law tho time city pays S l for all Intersections Intersections intersections and for tor halt half of the grading which means nearly quarter one-quarter of tho the ex cx expense ex- ex pense penso With proposed Improvements improvement s amounting to nearly 2 tim the tho se e ell city could not possibly hold hoM up It Its s end of tho the game Jame |