(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 City Council.
(Neb. RS 17-508)
(B) The City Council 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 city corporate area and the area adjoining the city. 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 City Council 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 City Council 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 City Council 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, see Neb. RS 18-1705
Authority to create improvement districts, impose special assessments, and issue bonds, see Neb. RS 17-509 to 17-524, 18-1751
Combined improvements, see Neb. RS 19-2401, 19-2408 to 19-2415
Creation of improvement district by petition of owners, see Neb. RS 17-510
Deferral of special assessments on land in agricultural use zone, see Neb. RS 19-2428 through 19-2431
Duty to keep streets and alleys open, in repair, and free from nuisances, see Neb. RS 17-567
Improvement of federal or state highway or main thoroughfare, see Neb. RS 17-512
Improvement of street which divides city corporate area and area adjoining the city, see Neb. RS 17-509
Inclusion of adjacent land in improvement district, see Neb. RS 19-2427
Jurisdiction over street which forms common boundary with county or another municipality, see Neb. RS 18-2005
Limited street improvement districts, see Neb. RS 19-2416
Objections to improvement district funded by special assessments, see Neb. RS 17-511