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Tit. XIII, Ch. 22. STREETS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS. §§ 3814-3814-a2.
11 be paid from the general fund, or from the highway or poll taxes of
12 such cities or towns, or partly from each of such funds, or by assess-
13 ing all or any portion of the cost thereof on abutting and adjacent
14 property according to the benefits derived from such extension, re-
15 pairs and improvements as provided in chapter twenty-three, title
16 thirteen.
17 Provided, however, that the city council may extend the assess-
18 ments made over a period of not to exceed twenty years payable in
19 equal annual installments, and that such city council shall have the
20 power to issue certificates or bonds in anticipation of such assessments
21 and levies.
22 The district benefited and in which adjacent property is to be
23 assessed shall be designated and determined by the council in the
24 ordinance or resolution ordering such extension, repairs and improve-
25 ments, provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as
26 changing the manner of assessing abutting and adjacent property
27 for the cost of paving, guttering, curbing or macadamizing streets
28 and alleys.
[R., '60, §§ 1064, 1097; C, '73, §§ 464, 465, 527; C, '97 §
751 ; S. S., '15, § 751 ; 39 G. A., ch. 184, § 1.]
NOTE: Temporary retroactive provision. See 39 G. A , ch. 184, § 1.
SEC. 3814. Regulation of jitney busses.
[Repealed by 39 G. A., ch. 115, and the five following sections enacted
in lieu thereof.]
SEC. 3814-al. Jitney busses—regulation and license.
1 Cities and towns, including cities acting under the commission
2 form of government, and cities acting under the city manager plan
3 of government, shall have power, under the restrictions and conditions
4 hereinafter named, to regulate and license so called jitney busses and
5 all motor vehicles operating upon the streets and avenues of such cities
6' and towns and engaged in carrying passengers for hire on a plan sim-
7 ilar to that followed by street railway companies ; to require such vehi-
8 cles to be operated over reasonable routes and upon reasonable
9 schedules; to impose penalties within the limits of section thirty-five
10 hundred seventy-four of the compiled code, for the violation of any
11 ordinance enacted hereunder, not inconsistent and in conflict with this
12 and the four following sections.
[S. S., '15, § 754-a; 39 G. A., ch. 115, § 1.]
SEC. 3814-a2. Excluding jitneys from certain streets.
1 The city or town council may prohibit any such jitney bus or
2 motor vehicle from operating on that part of any such street or avenue
3 on which there is operated a street car line or lines when such street
4 car line is maintained and operated under a franchise granted by any
5 such city or town.
6 Such jitney or motor bus may cross such street or avenue at right
7 angles with said street car line or lines, and in addition thereto, said
8 jitney or motor busses may travel over such streets and avenues so
9 far only as is necessary to cross bridges.
10 Said busses and vehicles may have a terminus in the business dis-
11 trict of such city or town, and for the purpose of going to and from