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within said Oakmont sub-division; provided, that before any contract for
work shall be entered into, or any obligation with respect thereto incurred,
notice shall be given to the owners and others of record interested in said
abutting property an opportunity to be heard, such hearing to be had be-
fore said Oakmont Citizens' Committee, which shall decide the matters
properly brought before it. Any party affected by the final decision of
said Citizens' Committee made after such hearing, shall have the right to
appeal therefrom within ten days to the Circuit Court of Montgomery
County; and provided further, that upon the petition of a majority of the
resident property owners owning property abutting upon any street, road

or lanes to be graded, paved, macadamized or otherwise to be improved
under the provisions of this section requesting the grading, paving, macad-
amizing or otherwise improving of any such streets, roads or lanes, it shall
be the duty of the said Citizens' Committee to make the assessment against
the abutting property owners, to provide the funds for and cause to be per-
formed the necessary work or construction to be done in accordance with
the provisions hereinabove provided.

1918, ch. 190, sec. 5.

671. Said Oakmont Citizens' Committee shall not expend for material
or work a sum exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) without having first
advertised the specifications therefor and inviting bids for the same, after
which said Committee may purchase such material or may contract for
such work, or have such work done by employed labor, or otherwise as it
may deem best; and provided further, that said Committee may make con-
tracts, and provided further, that no member of said Citizens' Committee
shall furnish any supplies of any kind or contract in any manner with

said Citizens' Committee.

1918, ch. 190, sec. 6.

672. Said Citizens' Committee subject to the approval of the said
Board of County Commissioners may adopt such regulations with respect
to dumping of garbage, sanitation, erection of buildings, tearing up of
streets, speed regulations, care of property, removal of snow, ice or other
police or health regulations and to provide penalties for the violation there-

of, as said Committee may deem proper.

Any Justice of the Peace in Montgomery County shall have jurisdiction
to try and determine any violation of any of said regulations and to im-
pose penalties thereby provided. The sheriff of said county and his dep-
uties and any constable in said county shall have authority to arrest for
any violation of said regulations and to execute all writs issued by any
such Justice of the Peace in connection with such regulations or with the
punishments of the persons violating any of them. The procedure shall
be in accordance with that now provided for the trial of misdemeanors.
All proceedings with respect to the violation of any such regulations shall
be conducted by or through and in the name of said Citizens' Committee.