Source:Ordinance-1910-1911-445
"An ordinance opening Melvin street from Wightman street to Phillips avenue, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1910–1911, no. 445. Passed Jan. 9, 1911; approved Jan. 10, 1911. Ordinance Book 22, p. 385. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh for the Years 1910–1911, appendix, p. 275, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1911 (Google Books 0X0zAQAAMAAJ; HathiTrust uiug.30112108223840; Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1910).
No. 445
AN ORDINANCE—Opening Melvin street from Wightman street to Phillips avenue, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, and providing that the cost, damages and expenses occasioned thereby be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby.
Whereas, It appears by the petition and affidavit on file in the office of the City Clerk that a majority of property owners in interest and number abutting upon the line of Melvin street, between Wightman street and Phillips avenue, have petitioned Councils of the City of Pittsburgh to enact an ordinance for the opening of the same; therefore
Section 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the City of Pittsburgh in Select and Common Councils assembled, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That Melvin street, from Wightman street to Phillips avenue, in the Fourteenth ward of the City of Pittsburgh, be opened to a width of 50 feet, in accordance with an ordinance locating the same, approved July 13, 1909, and recorded in Ordinance Book, Vol. 20, page 457.
Section 2. The Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to cause said Melvin street from Wightman street to Phillips avenue to be opened, in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance.
Section 3. The cost, damages and expenses caused thereby, and the benefits to pay the same, shall be assessed against and collected from properties benefited thereby, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relating thereto and regulating the same.
Section 4. That any Ordinance or part of Ordinance, conflicting with the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same is hereby repealed so far as the same affects this Ordinance.
Passed January 9, 1911.
Approved January 10, 1911.
Ordinance Book 22, page 385.
