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§ 8-210  NON-COMPLYING CONSTRUCTION.
   In case any property owner, under notice given or otherwise, shall construct a sidewalk in violation of this article, the Municipal Services Director or City Engineer may stop the work of such construction and order the same to be constructed in accordance with this article, and order the work already done to be changed. On the failure of such owner to change any such work, the Municipal Services Director shall change such work, and the expense of the same shall be assessed and taxed to the abutting property and collected as taxed, as provided by law.
(Ord. 2329, passed 2-15-2011)
ARTICLE 3: STREETS
Section
   8-301   Improvement districts; objections
   8-302   Petition for improvement district
   8-303   Widening or opening
   8-304   Excavations
   8-305   Construction, barricades and lights
   8-306   Driving stakes
   8-307   Mixing concrete
   8-308   Harmful liquids
   8-309   Interference with new paving and barricades
   8-310   Heavy equipment
   8-311   Load limits
   8-312   Pipe lines and wires
   8-313   Assessments; authorized
   8-314   Improvement of streets on corporate limits
§ 8-301  IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS; OBJECTIONS.
   (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)
§ 8-302  PETITION FOR IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
   Whenever the owner of lots or lands abutting upon any street, avenue or alley within the city, representing three-fourths of the front footage thereon, so that such district when created will make up one continuous or extended thoroughfare or more, shall petition the Mayor and Council to make improvement of such street, avenue or alley, including intersections of streets or avenues and spaces opposite alleys, against the private property within such improvement district or districts, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council to create the proper improvement district or districts, which shall be consecutively numbered, and to improve the same and to proceed in the same manner and form as herein before provided for in other paving and improvement districts; provided, the Mayor and Council shall have power to levy the entire cost of such improvements of any such street, avenue or alley, including intersections of streets or avenues and spaces opposite alleys, against the private property within such district, and to issue street improvement bonds of said District to pay for such improvements in the same manner and form as provided by statute.
(2005 Code, § 8-302)
§ 8-303  WIDENING OR OPENING.
   The governing body shall have the power to open or widen any street, alley or lane within the limits of the municipality; to create, open and improve any new street, alley or lane; provided, all damages sustained shall be ascertained in such manner as shall be provided by statute.
(2005 Code, § 8-303)
§ 8-304  EXCAVATIONS.
   No person shall be allowed to make any excavation in any paved street or alley, or remove any paving or other material forming any street or alley improvement, without a permit from the Municipal Services Director, to be issued only upon the written application of the party desiring such permit. Such person shall maintain good and sufficient barricades, guards, lights and signals to protect the public from injury or loss. When required such applicant shall deposit with the City Clerk a sum sufficient to cover the cost of replacing any improvement so removed, and the Municipal Services Director and City Engineer shall cause such pavement to be replaced. After paying the expense thereof out of such deposit, the balance of the deposit remaining in the hands of the City Clerk, if any, shall be refunded to the applicant. When a deposit is not required the City Clerk shall cause to be collected the cost of said replacement from the applicant. All such cuts or excavations shall be made under the supervision of the City Engineer or the Municipal Services Director.
(2005 Code, § 8-304)
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