The Chairperson and Board of Trustees shall have the power by a three-fourths’ vote of the governing body to create by ordinance a paving, graveling or other improvement district and to order such work done upon any federal or state highway in the municipality, or upon a street or route designated by the Chairperson and Board of Trustees as a main thoroughfare that connects on both ends to either a federal or state highway or a county road. The governing body shall contract therefor and shall have the power to assess, to the extent of special benefits, the costs of such improvements upon the properties found especially benefitted thereby.
(Neb. RS 17-512) (Prior Code, § 8-316)