(A) (1) The Mayor and Council shall have power to make improvements of any street, streets, alley, alleys or any part of any street, streets, alley or alleys, in said city, a street which divides the city corporate area and the area adjoining the city, or within a county industrial area, as defined in Neb. RS 19-2501, contiguous to such city, and for that purpose to create suitable improvement districts, which shall be consecutively numbered; and such work shall be done under contract.
(2) Such districts may include properties within the corporate limits, adjoining the corporate limits and within county industrial areas, as defined in Neb. RS 19-2501, contiguous to such cities.
(B) Any paving district or other improvement district shall include only portions of different streets, or portions of town alleys, or portions of each, which abut or adjoin so that such district, when created, makes up one continuous or extended street or more; except that, the district may include a cul-de-sac, any street, alley or portion thereof which is closed at one end or which connects with only one other existing street, alley or portion thereof. Any paving or other improvement district may include portions of each; provided, they abut or connect with each other, or provided the several portions abut on pavement or gravel already laid, or any other of aforesaid improvements already laid.
(C) (1) The Mayor and Council shall first, by ordinance, create a paving, graveling or other improvement district or districts.
(2) The Mayor and Clerk shall, after the passage, approval and publication of such ordinance, publish notice of the creation of any such district or districts one time each week for not less than 20 days in a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation published in the city.
(D) (1) If the owners of the record title representing more than 50% of the front footage of the property abutting or adjoining any continuous or extended thoroughfare or more street, cul-de-sac or alley of the district, or portion thereof which is closed at one end, and who were such owners at the time the ordinance creating the district was published, shall file with the City Clerk, within 20 days from the first publication of said notice, written objections to the improvement of a district, said work shall not be done in said district under said ordinance, but said ordinance shall be repealed.
(2) If objections are not filed against any district in the time and manner aforesaid, the Mayor and Council shall forthwith proceed to construct such improvement.
(2005 Code, § 8-301)