(A) Improvement of streets on corporate limits. The Mayor and Council shall have the power to improve any street or part thereof which divides the city corporate area and the area adjoining the city. When creating an improvement district including land adjacent to the city, the City Council shall have power to assess, to the extent of special benefits, the costs of such improvements upon the properties found especially benefitted thereby.
(Prior Code, § 8-311)
(B) Improvement districts; objections. Whenever the City Council deems it necessary to make any improvements allowed by statute which are to be funded by a levy of special assessment on the property especially benefitted, the City Council shall, by ordinance, create a paving, graveling, or other improvement district and, after the passage, approval, and publication or posting of such ordinance, shall publish notice of the creation of any such district for six days in a legal newspaper of the city, if a daily newspaper, or for two consecutive weeks if it is a weekly newspaper. If no legal newspaper is published in the city, the publication shall be in a legal newspaper of general circulation in the city. If the owners of the record title representing more than 50% of the front footage of the property directly abutting on the street or alley to be improved file with the City Clerk within 20 days after the first publication of such notice, written objections to the creation of such district, such improvement shall not be made as provided in such ordinance, but such ordinance shall be repealed. If objections are not filed against the district in the time and manner prescribed in this section, the City Council shall immediately cause such work to be done or such improvement to be made, shall contract for the work or improvement, and shall levy assessments on the lots and parcels of land abutting on or adjacent to such street or alley especially benefitted in such district in proportion to such benefits to pay the cost of such improvement.
(Prior Code, § 8-312)
(C) Improvement of main thoroughfares. The Mayor and City Council shall have the power by a three-fourths’ vote of the City Council, 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 city, or upon a street or route designated by the Mayor and City Council as a main thoroughfare that connects on both ends, to either a federal or state highway or a county road. The City Council shall contract therefore 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.
(Prior Code, § 8-313)
(Ord. 544, passed 5-6-1997)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-509, 17-511, and 17-512