1901 private laws – Ch.333 Sec.59

That every owner of a lot on a street, if so ordered by the Board of Aldermen, shall improve, curb, pave or repair in such manner as the Board of Aldermen may direct, such sidewalk as far as it may extend along such lot; and shall also, if so directed by the Board of Aldermen, macadamize, pave or otherwise improve the gutters adjoining the said sidewalk and onefourth of the street adjoining, with such materials and in such a Manner as may be required by the Board of Aldermen, and all work done under this section shall be done under the strict supervision of the Superintendent of Streets or of the Street Committee; and on the failure to do as directed within twenty days after the notice by the Superintendent of Streets or the Chief of Police to said owner, or if he be a non-resident of the county of Guilford, to his agent, or if such non-resident have no agent in said county known to the Board, or if personal notice can not be served upon the owner or agent, then after publication of a notice by the Superintendent of Streets or the Chief of Police for ten days in some newspaper published in Greensboro, calling on the owner to make such repairs, the Board of Aldermen or the Superintendent of Streets may cause the same to be repaired or improved as directed by the Board, and the expenses shall be paid by the person in default; said expense shall be a lien upon said lot, and if not paid within two months after compleuon of the work such lot may be sold, or enough of the same, to pay such expenses and costs, under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, rights of redemptions and savings as are prescribed in said charter for the sale of land for unpaid taxes: Provided, however, that the Board of Aldermen, in order to secure uniformity in the work done, may, after giving ten days notice in the manner herein prescribed to the owner, have all the work provided for herein done by the city forces or by contract and charge the actual cost of such work to the abutting property and the said charges shall be a lien as herein provided and collectible as provided above; Provided further, that if the property owner should so elect and give notice of the fact in writing to the Board within the two months hereinbefore prescribed, he shall have the privilege and option of paying the said assessment in five equal annual installments, each installment to bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from the date on which said work is done up to the time when the same shall be due and collectible, which said date shall be the date on which taxes are due and collectible and in the case of the failure or neglect of any property owner to pay said installment when the same shall be due and collectible, then, and in that event the said amount of said installment shall be a lien upon said property as hereinbefore provided and collectible as provided above: Provided further, that whenever the city has had any of said work done it shall give the owner of the said abutting property ten days notice of the amount charged against neat his said property, and if the said owner is dissatisfied with the amount of the said charge he may give notice to the Board of Aldermen within the ten days aforesaia that he takes an appeal to the next term of the Superior Court of Guilford County, and shall within five days thereafter serve a statement of facts upon which he bases his appeal. The said appeal shall at the said term of court be tried as other actions at law; and the said owner may in like time and manner appeal from any order or act of the y Board of Aldermen made or done under this section, but said apZ peal shall not delay or stop the said improvements. ) was gs o % a