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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city shall not purchase, lease-purchase or acquire for consideration real property having an estimated value of $100,000 or more unless an appraisal of such property has been performed by a certified real property appraiser.
(Prior Code, § 8-114) (Ord. 708, passed 10-3-1995)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 13-403
SIDEWALKS
It shall be unlawful for the occupant of any lot or lots or the owner of any vacant lot or lots within the corporate limits to allow snow, sleet, mud, ice or other substance to accumulate on the sidewalks or to permit any snow, sleet, ice, mud or other substance to remain upon the sidewalk. Unless the City Council has provided otherwise, all sidewalks within the Business District shall be cleaned within five hours after the cessation of a storm, unless the storm or fall of snow shall have taken place during the night, in which case the sidewalk shall be cleaned before 9:00 a.m. the following day, and sidewalks within the residential areas of the city shall be cleaned within 24 hours after the cessation of the storm.
Penalty, see § 152.999
No person shall be allowed to keep or use the space beneath the sidewalk lying between lot line and curb line unless a permit has been obtained from the City Council. Before any permit is granted, the applicant shall submit plans and specifications of any present or proposed construction to the City Engineer. If the plans or specifications are disapproved by the Engineer, no permit shall be granted. All permits hereafter granted shall continue only upon the condition that the party receiving them builds, maintains and keeps in repair a sidewalk over the space used or constructed to be used and pays all damages that may be sustained by any person by reason of such use or by reason of the sidewalk being defective or in a dangerous condition. As a condition precedent to the issuance or continuance of any permit for the use of any space underneath the city sidewalks as contemplated in this section, the City Council may require the applicant to furnish a bond to the city as obligee for the benefit of any person who may suffer an injury or damage by reason of such use. The bond shall be in such sum as the City Council, in its discretion, may designate.
Penalty, see § 152.999
(A) Any person desiring to demolish, remove or construct, or cause to be demolished, removed or constructed, any sidewalk shall do so only as herein provided. It shall be unlawful for any person to demolish, remove or construct any sidewalk within the municipality without first having a permit from the municipality.
(B) In order to obtain said permit, the owner or person contracted with by the owner shall make a written application in the office of the Municipal Clerk. A written application shall give a legal description and street address of the lot or tract of land upon which the sidewalk is to be demolished, removed or constructed and shall further provide for a complete description of the work to be completed, which shall include the specific location of the sidewalk to be demolished, removed or constructed, upon said real property. No permit shall be issued for demolition or removal of a sidewalk unless the application shall set forth that a new sidewalk shall be constructed in the same location as the sidewalk to be demolished or removed and that said new sidewalk construction shall be completed within 120 days from the date the permit is issued. The Utilities Superintendent shall issue the desired permit unless good cause shall appear why said permit should be denied; provided, that if it is desired to construct a new sidewalk in any manner other than the regularly prescribed location, grade or elevation, the Utilities Superintendent shall submit the application to the governing body, who shall determine whether the permit should be granted or denied. It shall be unlawful for any person to construct, or cause to be constructed, a sidewalk at any other location, grade or elevation than so designated by the municipality.
(C) All sidewalks shall be built and constructed on the established grade, or elevation, and if there is no established grade, then on the grade or elevation indicated by the Utilities Superintendent. All sidewalks shall be at least four inches thick and shall be constructed in conformity with such specifications as may be set forth by the governing body, and construction shall be completed within 120 days from the date the permit therefor is issued.
(Prior Code, § 8-205) (Ord. 881, passed 4-6-2010; Ord. 883, passed 6-8-2010; Ord. 885, passed 8-10-2010) Penalty, see § 152.999
(A) (1) The Mayor and City Council may construct and repair sidewalks or cause the construction and repair of sidewalks in such manner as the Mayor and City Council deem necessary and assess the expense of such construction or repairs on the property in front of which such construction or repairs are made, after having given notice:
(a) By publication in one issue of a legal newspaper of general circulation in the city; and
(b) By either causing a written notice to be served upon the occupant in possession of the property involved or to be posted upon such premises ten days prior to the commencement of such construction or repair.
(2) The powers conferred under this section are in addition to those provided in Neb. RS 17-509 through 17-521 and may be exercised without creating an improvement district.
(3) If the owner of any property abutting any street or avenue or part thereof fails to construct or repair any sidewalk in front of the owner’s property within the time and in the manner as directed and requested by the Mayor and City Council, after having received due notice to do so, the Mayor and City Council may cause the sidewalk to be constructed or repaired and may assess the cost of such construction or repairs against the property.
(Neb. RS 17-522)
(B) All sidewalks shall be constructed and repaired in conformity with such plans and specifications as may be approved by the City Council.
(C) Assessments made under the provisions of this section shall be made and assessed in the following manner:
(1) Such assessment shall be made by the City Council at a special meeting by a resolution taking into account the benefits derived or injuries sustained in consequence of such improvements, and the amount charged against the same, which, with the vote, shall be recorded in the minutes. Notice of the time of holding such meeting and the purpose for which it is to be held shall be published in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the in the city at least four weeks before the same shall be held or, in lieu thereof, personal service may be made upon persons owning or occupying property to be assessed; and
(2) All such assessments shall be known as special assessments for improvements and shall be levied and collected as a separate tax, in addition to the taxes for general revenue purposes, and shall be placed on the tax roll for collection, subject to the same penalties and collected in like manner as other city taxes.
(Neb. RS 17-524)
Statutory reference:
Authority to improve through sidewalk district, see Neb. RS 19-2417 through 19-2419
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