200                              Local Improvements.                [§§ 401-404

to widen, to regulate, to grade, to curb, to gutter, to flag, and to pave
streets, to lay crosswalks, and to construct lateral sewers within its
district, and generally for such other improvements in and about
such streets within its district as the public wants and convenience
of the district shall require.

Id.; to transmit resolution; further procedure; expenses to be a lien.

§ 402. If the local board shall by resolution decide to recommend
that proceedings be initiated for a local improvement within its
jurisdiction, it shall thereupon, forthwith, transmit a copy of such
resolution to the board of public improvements. Said board shall
promptly consider such resolution, and If, in Its opinion, the work
proposed ought to be proceeded with, it shall take such steps In
regard thereto as are In this act provided in the cases where public
works are proposed and initiated by said board of public Improve¬
ments. The expense of all such Improvements shall be assessed and
be a lien on the property benefited thereby in proportion to the
amount of said benefit, and In no case shall extend beyond the
limits of said district.

Local boards; power to flag- sidewalks, etc.

§ 403. A local board shall have the power to cause the flagging
or refiagging of sidewalks, laying or relaying of crosswalks, fencing
vacant lots, digging down lots or filling in sunken lots within its
district, by resolution approved by the board of public improve¬
ments. When such public work or improvement shall have been
duly authorized, the board of public improvements shall direct the
proper department to proceed forthwith in the execution thereof,
as in cases where public works are proposed and Initiated by said
board of public improvements.

Construction of this title.

§ 404. Nothing in this title contained shall be construed to in
any way limit the power of the board of public improvements or
of the municipal assembly, or of the board of public improvements
and the municipal assembly conjointly, in authorizing any public
improvement, nor shall anything herein contained be construed to
authorize any local board to incur any expenditures other than as
authorized by the board of estimate and apportionment.