PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS
Article 13.--PARKS, PARKWAYS, BOULEVARDS AND PLAYGROUNDS
13-1334.Streets through parks; railroads; transmission lines.
No roads nor streets shall be laid out or constructed through any park
except said board of park commissioners shall lay out and construct or
permit the laying out and construction of the same; and any road, highway,
street or alley (excepting railroads), or part thereof, which may pass
through or into or divide or separate any lands now used or condemned, or
that may hereafter be acquired or condemned, for parks, shall upon
condemnation [recommendation] of said board of park commissioners, with the
consent of the city council of such city be by said city council vacated
and closed up and made a part of such park. And no railway shall be built
into, through or over any park, parkway or boulevards without the consent
of said board of park commissioners; nor shall any street railway,
telegraph, telephone or electric-light wires, or posts or supports thereof,
be erected or placed in, upon, through, over or adjoining any park without
the consent of said board of park commissioners; and said board shall have
power and authority to designate the place or places for and manner of
erecting, placing and maintaining the same in or upon any park or
boulevard, and may cause the place and manner of maintaining the same,
whether heretofore or hereafter erected or placed, to be altered at such
time and in such manner as it shall deem best for the interest of the city,
and may require telegraph, telephone and electric-light wires in any park,
parkway or boulevard to be laid underground.
History: L. 1907, ch. 115, § 35; March 4; R.S. 1923, § 13-1334.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS
Article 13.--PARKS, PARKWAYS, BOULEVARDS AND PLAYGROUNDS
13-1334.Streets through parks; railroads; transmission lines.
No roads nor streets shall be laid out or constructed through any park
except said board of park commissioners shall lay out and construct or
permit the laying out and construction of the same; and any road, highway,
street or alley (excepting railroads), or part thereof, which may pass
through or into or divide or separate any lands now used or condemned, or
that may hereafter be acquired or condemned, for parks, shall upon
condemnation [recommendation] of said board of park commissioners, with the
consent of the city council of such city be by said city council vacated
and closed up and made a part of such park. And no railway shall be built
into, through or over any park, parkway or boulevards without the consent
of said board of park commissioners; nor shall any street railway,
telegraph, telephone or electric-light wires, or posts or supports thereof,
be erected or placed in, upon, through, over or adjoining any park without
the consent of said board of park commissioners; and said board shall have
power and authority to designate the place or places for and manner of
erecting, placing and maintaining the same in or upon any park or
boulevard, and may cause the place and manner of maintaining the same,
whether heretofore or hereafter erected or placed, to be altered at such
time and in such manner as it shall deem best for the interest of the city,
and may require telegraph, telephone and electric-light wires in any park,
parkway or boulevard to be laid underground.
History: L. 1907, ch. 115, § 35; March 4; R.S. 1923, § 13-1334.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS
Article 13.--PARKS, PARKWAYS, BOULEVARDS AND PLAYGROUNDS
13-1334.Streets through parks; railroads; transmission lines.
No roads nor streets shall be laid out or constructed through any park
except said board of park commissioners shall lay out and construct or
permit the laying out and construction of the same; and any road, highway,
street or alley (excepting railroads), or part thereof, which may pass
through or into or divide or separate any lands now used or condemned, or
that may hereafter be acquired or condemned, for parks, shall upon
condemnation [recommendation] of said board of park commissioners, with the
consent of the city council of such city be by said city council vacated
and closed up and made a part of such park. And no railway shall be built
into, through or over any park, parkway or boulevards without the consent
of said board of park commissioners; nor shall any street railway,
telegraph, telephone or electric-light wires, or posts or supports thereof,
be erected or placed in, upon, through, over or adjoining any park without
the consent of said board of park commissioners; and said board shall have
power and authority to designate the place or places for and manner of
erecting, placing and maintaining the same in or upon any park or
boulevard, and may cause the place and manner of maintaining the same,
whether heretofore or hereafter erected or placed, to be altered at such
time and in such manner as it shall deem best for the interest of the city,
and may require telegraph, telephone and electric-light wires in any park,
parkway or boulevard to be laid underground.
History: L. 1907, ch. 115, § 35; March 4; R.S. 1923, § 13-1334.