(A) The municipality has the power to provide for the grading and repair of any street, avenue, or alley. No street, avenue, or alley shall be graded unless the grading is ordered to be done by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Board of Trustees.
(Neb. RS 17-508)
(B) The Board of Trustees may grade, partially or to an established grade, change grade, curb, recurb, gutter, regutter, pave, gravel, regravel, macadamize, remacadamize, widen, or narrow streets or roadways, resurface or relay existing pavement, or otherwise improve any streets, alleys, public grounds, public ways, entirely or partially, and streets which divide the village corporate area and the area adjoining the village. These projects may be funded at public cost or by the levy of special assessments on the property especially benefitted in proportion to such benefits, except as provided in Neb. RS 19-2428 to 19-2431. The Board of Trustees may by ordinance create improvement districts, to be consecutively numbered, which may include two or more connecting or intersecting streets, alleys, or public ways, and may include two or more of the improvements in one proceeding.
(Neb. RS 17-509)
(C) Whenever the Board of Trustees deems it necessary to make the improvements in division (B) which are to be funded by a levy of special assessment on the property especially benefitted, the Board of Trustees shall by ordinance create an improvement district.
(Neb. RS 17-511)
Statutory references:
Acquisition of additional land or an easement by purchase, gift, or eminent domain, Neb. RS 18-1705
Authority to create improvement districts, impose special assessments, and issue bonds, Neb. RS 17-509 to 17-524, 18-1751
Combined improvements, Neb. RS 19-2401, 19-2408 to 19-2415
Creation of improvement district by petition of owners, Neb. RS 17-510
Deferral of special assessments on land in agricultural use zone, Neb. RS 19-2428 through 19-2431
Duty to keep streets and alleys open, in repair, and free from nuisances, Neb. RS 17-567
Improvement of federal or state highway or main thoroughfare, Neb. RS 17-412
Improvement of street which divides city corporate area and area adjoining the city, Neb. RS 17-509
Inclusion of adjacent land in improvement district, Neb. RS 19-2427
Jurisdiction over street which forms common boundary with county or another municipality, Neb. RS 18-2005
Limited street improvement districts, Neb. RS 19-2416
Objections to improvement district funded by special assessments, Neb. RS 17-511