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The chief street official shall notify the owners in fee simple of real estate abutting a street, alley or a part thereof which is to be put under contract for paving or repaving. Notice shall also be given to all gas, electric service and telephone companies. Notice shall also be given to all consumers of gas, water and sewer services which will be discontinued during such construction. Said notice shall be published one time in a legal newspaper at least 20 days prior to the beginning of such construction by the party undertaking such construction and said notice shall state at what date connections must be made and excavation completed. All gas, water, sewer and underground connections must be made prior to the paving or repaving of the street under construction. After expiration of such time, permits for excavation will not be issued, nor will excavation be allowed until after the completion of the pavement in said street or alley and the formal final acceptance thereof by the proper officials of the municipality.
(Prior Code, § 8-310)
(A) To defray the costs and expenses of street improvements, as may be authorized by law, the governing body shall have power and authority to levy and collect special taxes and assessments upon the lots and pieces of ground adjacent to, abutting upon or especially benefitting from, the street, avenue, alley or sidewalk in whole or in part opened, widened, curbed, curbed and guttered, graded, paved, repaired, graveled, macadamized, parked, extended, constructed or otherwise improved or repaired. The governing body sitting as the Board of Equalization shall review all such improvements in accordance with the procedure provided by law.
(B) All special assessments shall be made by the governing body at a regular or special meeting by resolution, taking into account the benefits derived or injuries sustained in consequence of such improvements and the amount charged against same. The vote shall be recorded in the minutes. Notice of the time of holding such meeting and the purpose for which it is to be held shall be published in some legal newspaper published, or of general circulation, in the municipality at least four weeks before the same shall be held. In lieu of such aforementioned notice, personal service may be had upon the persons owning or occupying the property to be assessed. Such assessments shall be known as “special assessments for improvements” and with the cost of notice shall be levied and collected as a special tax in addition to the taxes for general revenue purposes, subject to the same penalties and collected in like manner as other municipal taxes and shall be certified to the County Clerk by the Municipal Clerk forthwith after the date of levy for collection by the Treasurer of said county unless otherwise specified.
(C) After it shall become delinquent said assessment shall draw interest at the legal interest rate per annum. In the event the property owner is a nonresident of the county in which the property lies, the municipality shall, before levying any special assessment against that property, send a copy of any notice required by law to be published by means of certified mail, return receipt requested to the last known address of the nonresident property owner. The last known address shall be that address listed on the current tax rolls at the time such required notice was first published.
(Prior Code, § 8-312)
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 way 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.
(Neb. RS 17-510) (Prior Code, § 8-313)
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