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§ 95.03 MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL.
   The City Council shall have the care, supervision, and control of all public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares, and commons within the city and shall cause the same to be kept open and in repair and free from nuisances.
(Neb. RS 17-567)
§ 95.04 REGULATION OF OBSTRUCTIONS.
   (A)   The city may remove all obstructions from the sidewalks, curbstones, gutters, and crosswalks at the expense of the person placing them there or at the expense of the city and require and regulate the planting and protection of shade trees in and along the streets and the trimming and removing of such trees.
   (B)   The city may regulate the building of bulkheads, cellar and basement ways, stairways, railways, windows, doorways, awnings, hitching posts and rails, lampposts, awning posts, all other structures projecting upon or over and adjoining, and all other excavations through and under the sidewalks in the city.
(Neb. RS 17-555)
§ 95.05 REGULATION OF SNOW, ICE, AND OTHER ENCROACHMENTS.
   (A)   The city shall have power to prevent and remove all encroachments, including snow, ice, mud, or other obstructions, into and upon all sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys, and other city property.
(Neb. RS 17-557)
   (B)   If the abutting property owner refuses or neglects, after five days’ notice by publication or, in place thereof, personal service of such notice, to remove all encroachments from sidewalks, as provided in division (A) above, the city through the proper officers may cause such encroachments to be removed, and the cost of removal shall be paid out of the Street Fund. The City Council shall assess the cost of the notice and removal of the encroachment against the abutting property as a special assessment. The special assessment shall be known as a special sidewalk assessment and, together with the cost of notice, shall be levied and collected as a special assessment in addition to the general revenue taxes and shall be subject to the same penalties as other special assessments and shall draw interest from the date of the assessment. Upon payment of the assessment, the assessment shall be credited to the Street Fund.
(Neb. RS 17-557.01)
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