Source:Ordinance-1894-496

From Pittsburgh Streets

"An ordinance authorizing the acceptance of McKee place, from Forbes street to Bates street, and the improvements therein, and declaring the same to be a public highway of the city." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1894, no. 496. Passed Mar. 22, 1894; approved Mar. 24, 1894. Ordinance Book 9, p. 478. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the [Select and Common Councils] of the City of Pittsburgh, for the Year 1893–4, appendix, p. 170, Devine & Co., Pittsburgh, 1893–1894 (Internet Archive pghmunicipalrecord1893).

No. 496.

AN ORDINANCE—Authorizing the acceptance of McKee place, from Forbes street to Bates street, and the improvements therein, and declaring the same to be a public highway of the city.

Whereas, The owners of the property abutting upon McKee place, from Forbes street, have, at their own cost and expense, graded, paved and curbed said McKee place, from Forbes street to Bates street, and have constructed a 10 and 18-inch pipe sewer therein, from Louisa street to Bates street; and

Whereas, It appears by the petition and affidavit on file in the office of the Clerk of Councils, that a majority of property owners in interest and number abutting upon the line of the said McKee place have petitioned the Councils praying that the said McKee place as improved may be accepted and taken charge of as a public highway of the City of Pittsburgh.

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 McKee place, from Forbes street to Bates street, graded, paved and curbed and the sewers constructed therein by the owners of property abutting thereon at their own cost and expense, be and the same is hereby accepted and declared to be a public highway of the city, and the sewer constructed therein a public sewer, and the Department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed to take possession of the same and treat it the same as other improved public highways of the city.

Sec. 2. That any ordinance or part of ordinance, conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same is hereby repealed so far as the same affects this ordinance.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 March 22, 1894.

Approved March 24, 1894.

Ordinance Book 9, page 478.