§ 188. Alteration of streets.  


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  • When it deems it necessary the council may cause any street, alley or public highway to be opened, straightened, altered, diverted, narrowed, widened or vacated, and shall assess such portion of the cost thereof, not exceeding fifty per cent, as it may determine, upon the property benefited thereby, but not in excess of the special benefit conferred upon such property by such improvement.