§ 22-51. Construction, rebuilding, reconstruction of sidewalks by the city.

(a)

The city council may, by ordinance, provide for the building of any sidewalk or for the rebuilding and reconstruction thereof, including grading and filling therefor, including the removal of any obstructions, including approaches at corner lots and including the grading or parking of that portion of the street lying between the property line and the street curb line, by contract, and levy a special assessment against each lot or tract along which such work is done, for the cost thereof. No contract shall be let until the plans and specifications for the work have been adopted by ordinance (provided, the adoption may be by reference to general plans and specifications, which have already been adopted by ordinance by the city).

(b)

No contract shall be let until an advertisement for bids for the doing of the work has been published in at least one issue of a weekly newspaper or at least two (2) consecutive issues of a daily newspaper, published in the city. The date for the opening of the bids shall be at least ten (10) days after the date of the first publication of the advertisement for bids. Before the bids are opened, the city engineer, or other proper person designated by ordinance by the city council, shall prepare and file an estimate showing the estimated quantities of grading, filling and of the various materials required for the sidewalk in front of each separate lot, tract or parcel of ground, and an estimate of the cost of the work per cubic yard or per square yard, as the case may be, and an estimate of the cost of the removal of any obstruction. No contract shall be let for a price in excess of the estimate of the cost.

(c)

After the bids are opened by the city council, the city council shall let the contract for the work to the lowest and best responsible bidder, and in case there are no bids received, or that all bids are rejected for any reason, the city council may readvertise for bids for the work, or may, by ordinance, order and require the city engineer or other proper person to build and construct the sidewalk or do the other work as herein contemplated, according to the specifications adopted therefor (provided, however, that the cost of the work shall not exceed the estimate of the city engineer previously filed), keeping an accurate account of the cost of the separate items thereof. The city council shall pay for the labor and material and all other costs of the work out of any funds which they may have on hand available for such a purpose. At the completion of the work (either by contract or by the city) the city council shall levy the cost thereof as a special assessment against the lot, tract or parcel of ground along which each of the sidewalks or other improvements is made.

(Code 1967, §§ 22-16, 22-19, 22-22, 22-24; Ord. No. 1780, § 1, 8-25-69)

State law reference

Similar provisions, RSMo 88.880.