In accordance with the statutes of the State of Nebraska, including Neb. RS 17-509 through 17-521, 17-524, 18-1705, 18-1751, 18-2001 through 18-2005, 19-2408 through 19-2415, 19-2427 through 19-2431 and 76-704 through 76-724, the city shall have the power to grade partially or to an established grade, change grade, curb, recurb, gutter, regutter, pave, gravel regravel, macadamize, remacacamize, widen or narrow streets or roadways, resurface or relay existing pavement or otherwise improve any street, streets, alley, alleys, public grounds, public way or ways, or parts thereof, a street which divides the city corporate area and the area adjoining the city, construct or reconstruct pedestrian walks, plazas, malls, landscaping, outdoor sprinkler systems, fountains, decorative water ponds, lighting systems and permanent facilities used in connection therewith, construct sidewalks and improve the sidewalk space, at public cost or by levy of special assessments on the property especially benefitted thereby, proportionate to benefits, and by ordinance to create paving, repaving, grading, curbing, recurbing, resurfacing, graveling or improvement districts therefor, to be consecutively numbered, which may include two or more connecting or intersecting streets, alleys or public ways, and may include two or more of the improvements in one proceeding. These improvements may be by petition, by ordinance, as special improvement districts, without petition or creation of a district, or as combined improvements. Needed land may be acquired by purchase, gift or eminent domain proceedings.
(1998 Code, § 8-309)