17-521 Streets; improvement; railways; duty to pave between rails.
17-521. Streets; improvement; railways; duty to pave between rails.Any street or other railway company, occupying with any track any street, avenue or alley or portion thereof, which may be ordered paved, repaved, macadamized or graveled, may be charged with the expense of such improvement of said portion of such street, avenue or alley so occupied by it between its tracks, between its rails and for one foot beyond the outer rails; and the cost thereof may be collected and enforced against such company in such manner as may be provided by ordinance; or the mayor and council or board of trustees may by ordinance require such company to pave, repave, macadamize or gravel such portion of such street, avenue or alley occupied by said tracks and for one foot beyond its outside rails. SourceLaws 1909, c. 22, § 1, p. 194; Laws 1911, c. 21, § 1, p. 141; R.S.1913, § 5110; Laws 1915, c. 92, § 1, p. 234; Laws 1917, c. 102, § 1, p. 270; Laws 1919, c. 50, § 1, p. 148; C.S.1922, § 4283; Laws 1923, c. 135, § 1, p. 334; Laws 1927, c. 42, § 1, p. 181; C.S.1929, § 17-432; Laws 1933, c. 136, § 20, p. 534; C.S.Supp.,1941, § 17-432; R.S.1943, § 17-521.