(A) Whenever the City Council shall deem it necessary to make any improvements allowed by statute, it shall, by ordinance, create a paving, graveling or other improvement district or districts, 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 the same be a weekly newspaper.
(B) If the owners of record representing more than 50% of the front footage of the property directly abutting on any street or alley to be improved shall file written objections to the creation of such district(s) with the City Clerk within 20 days after the first publication of said notice, said improvements shall not be made as provided in said ordinance but it shall be repealed. If said objections are not filed against the district in the time and manner aforesaid, the City Council shall forthwith cause such work to be done or such improvement to be made and shall contract therefor and levy assessments on the lots and parcels of land abutting on or adjacent to such street or alley especially benefited in such district in proportion to such benefits to pay the cost of such improvement.
(Prior Code, § 5-213)
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Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-511