Redwood City Municipal Code Art. I In General

For the purposes of this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this Section:

CITY: Where the word City is referred to in any of the acts referred to in this Chapter, the same shall be deemed to be the City of Redwood City.

ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION: Wherever the word ordinance is referred to in any of the acts referred to in this Chapter, the same shall be deemed to be a resolution.

Where any of such acts require and provide for the adoption of an ordinance, the same shall be deemed to provide for the adoption of a resolution, and the adoption of a resolution shall be deemed to be a full and sufficient compliance therewith.

POWER GIVEN BY ACTS: Where a power is given in and by any of the acts referred to in this Chapter, the power shall thereby be conferred upon the City.

PUBLIC OFFICIALS: The public officials referred to in any of the acts referred to in this Chapter are the public officials of the City, and the matters and things therein mentioned with reference to a city be deemed to apply to and be the City.

(Ord. No. 333, Art. VII, § 4)

All streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, public ways or property or rights of way, now open or dedicated or which may hereafter be opened or dedicated to public use, and any property for the immediate possession and use of which, as rights of way required for public use, an order has been obtained in compliance with the provisions of section 14 of article I of the State constitution, shall be deemed and held to be open public streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places, public ways or property, or rights of way owned by the City for the purposes of this Chapter; and the City Council is hereby empowered to establish and change the grades of such respective ways, properties and rights of way and fix the width thereof and is hereby invested with jurisdiction to order to be done therein, over or thereon either singly or in any combination thereof, any of the work and things mentioned in this Chapter under the proceedings described in this Chapter.

(Ord. No. 333, Art. VII, § 3)

All work and improvement in this Chapter is found by the Council of the City to be and is hereby declared to be a Municipal affair, and no general law of the State or other law of the State shall be applicable thereto except insofar as the procedure of any particular law shall be adopted in and by this Chapter. Where the procedure of any general law is adopted for such work and improvement by this Chapter, the provision of such law as adopted by this Chapter, in effect at the date specified in this Chapter, shall be adopted hereby, and no amendment of such general law thereafter shall be applicable thereto.

The provisions of this Chapter shall be construed to be an alternate procedure under which public improvements may be constructed. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, the Council may elect to construct public improvements by proceeding under the general laws of the State now in effect or hereafter enacted in accordance with section 74 of the Charter of the City.

(Ord. No. 333, Art. VII, § 8)

This Chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that its purpose may be effected. No error, irregularity, informality, and no neglect or omission of any officer of the City in any procedure taken hereunder, which does not directly affect the jurisdiction of the City Council to order the improvement, shall void or invalidate such proceedings, or any assessment for any such improvements or any bonds issued thereunder. The exclusive remedy of any person affected or aggrieved thereby shall be by appeal to the City Council as provided in this Chapter.

(Ord. No. 333, Art. VII, § 8)

This Chapter shall not affect or relate to any proceedings for the doing of any work or improvement instituted prior to its passage [2], and which has not been abandoned, but in such case the work done or proposed to be done shall be completed in accordance with the statute under which such proceedings were instituted. Any assessments levied or to be levied or bonds issued or to be issued thereunder shall be issued, levied and collected and continued to be collected and paid in accordance with the law under which the same were issued or levied, or to be issued or levied.

(Ord. No. 333, Art. VII, § 2)

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Editor's note— The ordinance from which this Chapter is derived was enacted March 14, 1932.

The City is hereby authorized and empowered to bid and purchase any property offered for sale for the nonpayment of any improvement assessment levied and assessed under any of the provisions of this Chapter, or of any installment of same, or penalties or costs or interest thereon, or any suit brought to foreclose such assessment. Whenever any property shall have been acquired by the City at any such sale, then the property or any lien on or interest in same thereunder, may be released, assigned, sold or otherwise disposed of by the City in the manner heretofore provided or hereafter to be provided by ordinance or resolution or order of the City Council thereof; provided, however, that no such release, assignment, sale or other disposition of any such lien or interest or of any such property shall be made unless there shall be first paid to the City a sum of money equal to not less than the amount paid therefor, with all accrued penalties, costs, interest and necessary expenses incurred; provided, further, however, that if any such lien or interest or property cannot, as determined by the Council, be sold for the amount or charges computed as herein provided, then the City Council may by five-sevenths ( 5/7 ) vote of such body sell any such lien or interest or property for the best price obtainable.

(Ord. No. 333, Art. VII, § 5)

The requirements of any section of any law the procedure of which is adopted by this Chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, no notice, resolution or other paper required herein to be published need be published more than twice.

(Ord. No. 333, Art. VII, § 7)