Whenever the City Council deems it necessary to make any improvements allowed by statute which are to be funded by a levy of special assessment on the property especially benefitted, the City Council shall, by ordinance, create a paving, graveling or other improvement district and, after the passage, approval and publication or posting of the ordinance, shall publish notice of the creation of any district for six days in a legal newspaper of the city, if a daily newspaper, or for two consecutive weeks if it is a weekly newspaper. If no legal newspaper is published in the city, the publication shall be in a legal newspaper of general circulation in the city. If the owners of the record title representing more than 50% of the front footage of the property directly abutting on the street or alley to be improved file with the City Clerk within 20 days after the first publication of the notice written objections to the creation of the district, the improvement shall not be made as provided in the ordinance, but the ordinance shall be repealed. If objections are not filed against the district in the time and manner prescribed in this section, the City Council shall immediately cause the work to be done or the improvement to be made, shall contract for the work or improvement and shall levy assessments on the lots and parcels of land abutting on or adjacent to the street or alley especially benefitted in the district in proportion to the benefits to pay the cost of the improvement.
(Prior Code, § 8-312) (Ord. 19-96, passed 1-8-1996)
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Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-511