(A) Of streets on corporate limits. The Mayor and Council shall have the power to improve any street or part thereof which divides the municipal corporate area and the area adjoining the municipality. When creating an improvement district including land adjacent to the municipality, the Council shall have power to assess, to the extent of special benefits, the costs of such improvements upon the properties found especially benefitted thereby.
(1976 Code, § 8-312)
(B) Petition for improvements. Whenever a petition signed by the owners of record title representing more than 60% of the front footage of the property directly abutting upon the street, streets, alley, alleys, public ways or the public grounds proposed to be improved, shall be presented and filed with the Municipal Clerk, petitioning therefor, the governing body shall by ordinance create a paving, graveling or other improvement district or districts, and shall cause such work to be done or such improvement to be made, and shall contract therefor, and shall levy assessments on the lots and parcels of land abutting on or adjacent to such street, streets, alley or alleys, especially benefitted thereby in such district in proportion to such benefits, to pay the cost of such improvement. The governing body shall have the discretion to deny the formation of the proposed district when the area has not previously been improved with a water system, sewer system and grading of streets. If the governing body should deny a requested improvement district formation, it shall state the grounds for such denial in a written letter to interested parties.
(1976 Code, § 8-313)
(C) Improvement districts; objections. Whenever the governing body 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 governing body shall by ordinance create a paving, graveling or other improvement district and, after the passage, approval and publication or posting of such ordinance, shall publish notice of the creation of any such district for six days in a legal newspaper of the municipality, if a daily newspaper, or for two consecutive weeks if it is a weekly newspaper. If no legal newspaper is published in the municipality, the publication shall be in a legal newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. 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 Municipal Clerk within 20 days after the first publication of such notice written objections to the creation of such district, such improvement shall not be made as provided in such ordinance, but such ordinance shall be repealed. If objections are not filed against the district in the time and manner prescribed in this section, the governing body shall immediately cause such work to be done or such 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 such street or alley especially benefitted in such district in proportion to such benefits to pay the cost of such improvement.
(1976 Code, § 8-314)
(Ord. 622, passed 8-23-1979; Ord. 623, passed 8-23-1979; Ord. 722, passed 9-1-1983; Ord. 1207, passed 1-22-1996)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-509, 17-510, 17-511