Chapter 14, CITIES OF THE METROPOLITAN CLASS
414 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,122 Protest; filing; hearing.
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In case a protest is filed under section 14-3,120 or 14-3,121, the city shall have the power and responsibility to hear, determine, and adjudicate the objections raised by any protest in all matters relating to regularity, legality, and sufficiency of such petition and supplement…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,123 Petition; regular, legal, and sufficient.
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In case no protest is filed within the time provided in section 14-3,121, the city shall have the power and responsibility, without further notice, to find, adjudge, and determine that such petition is regular, legal, and sufficient.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,124 Materials; standards; adopt.
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In all specifications for materials to be used in paving, curbing, and guttering of every kind, a city shall establish a standard or standards of strength and quality, to be demonstrated by physical, chemical, or other tests within the limits of reasonable variations. In every in…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,125 Improvement district; materials to be used; designate by petition.
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A city shall give the property owners within any improvement district the opportunity to designate, by petition to be filed with the city, the specified material which such property owners desire to be used in the improvement of the street or alley or other grounds within such im…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,126 Streets; improvement or construction; materials to be used; designate by petition.
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The property owners within an improvement district may designate the material to be used in the improvement or construction of streets or alleys or other grounds within such district by petition, signed by a majority of such property owners, filed with the city within thirty days…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,127 Improvements; protests by majority of abutting property owners; filing; time; effect.
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In any of the improvements or alterations authorized by sections 14-363, 14-364, 14-384 to 14-3,102, and 14-3,108 to 14-3,127 and subsection (1) of section 14-3,107 in which any of the cost of the improvements or alterations is to be assessed in whole or in part to the abutting p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,128 Public improvements; special assessment bonds; issuance; purpose; sinking fund; limitations.
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(1) Any city of the metropolitan class is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and sell special assessment bonds to cover the cost of the work of construction of any and all public improvements to be paid for by special assessments which such city is authorized by law to make…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,129 Ornamental or decorative street lighting; city; maintain; exception; costs.
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When a system of ornamental or decorative street lighting has been continuously maintained in a residential neighborhood in a city of the metropolitan class for forty years or longer, it shall be the duty of such city to preserve and maintain such lighting system unless the city …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-360 Sewerage and drainage; regulations; creation of districts; powers of city; territory outside corporate limits.
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a city of the metropolitan class shall have the power to: (a) Lay out the city, or parts thereof, or portions of the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the city, into suitable districts for the purpose of establishing…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-361 Sewerage and drainage; connections; city may require; notice to property owners; construction by city; assessment of cost.
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Whenever sewer connections for sewerage or drainage may be deemed necessary or advisable, whether within the corporate limits or within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of a city of the metropolitan class, the property owners shall be given thirty days from the publicatio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-362 Sewerage and drainage; connections; permit required; assessment of cost; conditions.
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A city of the metropolitan class shall require the issuance of a permit to connect with any sewer on any street, alley, or private property within the corporate limits or within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of such city and shall require the sewer assessment on the ab…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-363 Street sprinkling or armor-coating districts; creation; contracts; bids; special assessments; collection.
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The city council of a city of the metropolitan class may provide for the sprinkling or armor coating of the streets of the city and, for the purpose of accomplishing such work, may by ordinance create suitable districts to be designated sprinkling or armor-coating districts and m…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-364 Paving repair plant; establishment; cost of operation; payment.
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The city council of a city of the metropolitan class may establish and maintain a paving repair plant and may pave or repair paving. The cost of such repairs may be paid from the funds of the city or may be assessed upon the abutting property, except that the cost may be assessed…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365 Public contractors; bonds required.
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All persons who contract with a city of the metropolitan class for work to be done, or material or supplies to be furnished, shall give bond to the city, with not less than two sureties in an amount not less than fifty percent of the amount of the contract price, for the faithful…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.01 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; construction; operation; territorial limits; tax authorized.
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(1) Any city of the metropolitan class is hereby authorized to: (a) Own, construct, equip, and operate either within or without the corporate limits of such city a sewerage system, including any storm sewer system, and plant or plants for the treatment, purification, and disposal…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.02 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; revenue bonds.
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For the purpose of owning, operating, constructing, and equipping a sewage disposal plant or sewerage system, including any storm sewer system, or improving or extending such existing system, as provided in section 14-365.01, a city of the metropolitan class may issue revenue bon…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.03 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; rules and regulations; rates or charges; collection; special assessments.
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(1) The city council of a city of the metropolitan class may make all necessary rules and regulations governing the use, operation, and control of a sewerage system established under section 14-365.01. The city council may establish just and equitable rates or charges to be paid …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.04 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; revenue bonds; payment.
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Bonds which are issued and secured by a mortgage on the utility, as provided in section 14-365.02, shall not be a general obligation of the city, but shall be paid only out of the revenue received from the service charges, as provided in section 14-365.03, or from a sale of the p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.05 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; franchises; power to grant; service; payment.
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For the purpose of providing for a sewage disposal plant and sewerage system, including any storm sewer system, or improving or extending such existing system, as provided in section 14-365.01, any city of the metropolitan class may also enter into a contract with any corporation…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.06 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; general obligation bonds; interest; power to issue.
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For the purpose of owning, operating, constructing, and equipping a sewage disposal plant and sewerage system, including any storm sewer system, or improving or extending such existing system, as provided in section 14-365.01, or for the purpose stated in sections 14-365.01 to 14…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.07 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; revenue bonds; ordinance; general obligation bonds; election; amount.
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(1) Revenue bonds authorized by section 14-365.02 may be issued by ordinance duly passed by the mayor and city council of any city of the metropolitan class without any other authority. (2) General obligation bonds authorized by section 14-365.06 may be issued only (a) after the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.08 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; minutes; plans; contracts; bids.
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Whenever the city council of a city of the metropolitan class shall have ordered the installation of a sewerage system, including any storm sewer system, and sewage disposal plant or the improvement or extension of an existing system, the fact that such order was issued shall be …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.09 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; service beyond corporate limits.
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The owner of any sewerage system, including any storm sewer system, or sewage disposal plant provided for in sections 14-365.01 to 14-365.08, or any city of the metropolitan class, is authorized to extend such sewerage system beyond the corporate limits of the city, under the sam…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.10 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; rental or use charges; collection; lien; proceeds; disposition.
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The mayor and city council of any city of the metropolitan class, in addition to other sources of revenue available to the city, may by ordinance set up appropriate rental or use charges to be collected from users of its sewerage system and provide methods of collection of such c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.11 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; terms, defined; powers construed.
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The terms sewage system, sewerage system, including storm sewer system, and disposal plant or plants, as used in sections 14-365.01 to 14-365.13 mean and include any system or works above or below ground which has for its purpose any or all of the following: The removal, discharg…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.12 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; tax levy; general obligation bonds; limitation.
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If any tax is levied or general obligation bonds are issued by a city of the metropolitan class as authorized under sections 18-501 to 18-511, the amount of such tax that may be levied by the provisions of section 14-365.01, or the amount of general obligation bonds that may be i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.13 Sewerage systems and sewage disposal plants; sections; cumulative.
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The provisions of sections 14-365.01 to 14-365.13 shall be independent of and in addition to any other provisions of the laws of the State of Nebraska with reference to sewage disposal plants and sewerage systems, including any storm sewer system, in cities of the metropolitan cl…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-366 Property; purchase or acquisition by eminent domain; scope of power; exercise beyond corporate limits.
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(1) A city of the metropolitan class may purchase or acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain private property or public property which is not at the time devoted to a specific public use, for: (a) Streets, alleys, avenues, parks, recreational areas, parkways, playg…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-367 Property; acquisition by eminent domain; procedure.
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Whenever property is purchased for any of the purposes stated in section 14-366 the purchase of such property shall be made by ordinance. Whenever it becomes necessary to appropriate property for the purposes stated in section 14-366 the purpose and necessity for such appropriati…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-372 Utilities; acquisition by eminent domain; funds; title.
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Whenever property is acquired for the purpose of constructing or enlarging waterworks, gas plants, or other municipal utility purposes or enterprises authorized under section 14-366, such property shall be paid for from such funds as may be provided for any such purposes. The tit…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-373 City plan; planning board; scope; lands outside corporate limits.
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Each city of the metropolitan class is authorized and required to prepare a plan for the future physical development and growth of the city. Such plan shall be prepared and shall be carried out by an appropriate city board or official. The plan may include such lands outside the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-373.01 Planning board; legislative findings.
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The Legislature finds that: (1) The exercise of zoning, planning, and other concomitant powers by a city of the metropolitan class in the area of extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction described and authorized by state law necessarily affects property outside the corporate boundari…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-373.02 Planning board; extraterritorial member; vacancy; how filled; procedure.
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(1) Notwithstanding any provision of a home rule charter to the contrary, the next vacancy that occurs on a city planning board on or after January 1, 1998, shall be filled by the appointment of a person who resides in the area of extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction as provided …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-374 City plan; acquisition and disposition of property; public purposes.
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Each city of the metropolitan class shall have the power to acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation, or bequest, such real estate within the corporate limits and within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the city as may be necessary for any public use and may later conve…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-375 City planning board; vacation of streets or alleys; procedure; appointment of committees; effect; appeal.
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Upon the recommendation of the city planning board, the city council of a city of the metropolitan class may, by ordinance or resolution, vacate any street or alley within such city without any petition being filed for such vacation. Before any such street or alley shall be vacat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-376 Public utilities; acquisition by eminent domain; procedure.
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Whenever the qualified electors of any city of the metropolitan class vote at any general or special election to acquire and appropriate by an exercise of the power of eminent domain, any waterworks, waterworks system, gas plant, electric light plant, electric light and power pla…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-383 Parks, recreational areas, and playgrounds; special levy; improvement district; creation; election.
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Without limiting the applicability of sections 14-366 to 14-372, the city council of a city of the metropolitan class is authorized to levy special taxes and assessments on properties benefited by parks, recreational areas, and playgrounds acquired either by purchase or condemnat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-384 Terms, defined.
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As used in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Alley means an established public way for vehicles and pedestrians affording a secondary means of access in the rear to properties abutting on a street or highway; (2) Boulevard means a street for …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-385 Streets; improvements; improvement districts; authorized.
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(1) Subject to sections 14-384 to 14-3,127, any city shall have the power and is authorized to: (a) Pave, repave, surface, resurface, and relay paving; (b) Widen, improve the horizontal and vertical alignment, insert traffic medians, channels, overpasses, and underpasses; (c) App…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-386 Streets; improvement districts; delineation.
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To accomplish any of the purposes stated in section 14-385, a city is authorized in all such proceedings to delineate proposed street improvement districts, proposed mall improvement districts, proposed separate or combined street and sidewalk, street, sidewalk, or streets and si…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-387 Streets; improvements without petition.
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A city is authorized without petition to order any of the improvements specified in section 14-385 within street improvement districts, mall improvement districts, separate or combined street and sidewalk, or street, or sidewalk, or streets and sidewalks improvement districts wit…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-388 Streets; main thoroughfares; major traffic streets; improvement districts; area included; cost.
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Any city may without petition order any main thoroughfare or major traffic street or part of such thoroughfare or street improved in any manner specified in section 14-385 after the city shall determine it to be such a main thoroughfare or major traffic street, which determinatio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-389 Streets; controlled-access facilities; property; powers; terms and conditions; frontage roads; access.
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(1) Any city shall have the power to designate and establish controlled-access facilities, and may design, construct, maintain, improve, alter, and vacate such facilities and may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit access to such facilities so as best to serve the traffi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-390 Streets; improvements; petition of property owners.
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Except as otherwise specifically provided in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127, any city shall not order or cause to be made any of the improvements provided in such sections in any improvement district except upon a petition of the record owners of the majority of the frontage of taxa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-391 Streets; improvements; petition of property owners; improvement districts; create; districts partly within and partly outside city.
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A city may, upon a petition of the record owners of a majority of the frontage of taxable property upon the streets or parts of streets within a district created for that purpose, order any of the improvements authorized in section 14-385, on any street or any number of consecuti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-392 Streets; improvements; assessment of cost.
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(1) For the purpose of covering in whole or in part the costs of any of the improvements, authorized in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127, or costs incident to such improvements, including grading done in combination with any other improvements, a city may: (a) Assess the property with…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-393 Streets; establish or change grade; authorization of city; requirements.
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Whenever it is desired to establish or to change the previously established grade of any street, highway, boulevard, main thoroughfare, controlled-access facility, connecting link, major traffic street, alley, or part of such street, highway, boulevard, thoroughfare, facility, li…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-394 Streets; change of grade; petition of property owners; sufficiency.
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A city is authorized to change the grade of any street, highway, boulevard, main thoroughfare, controlled-access facility, connecting link, major traffic street, alley, or part of such street, highway, boulevard, thoroughfare, facility, link, or alley when a petition for a proper…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-395 Streets; establish or change grade; authority of city.
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A city may authorize any street, highway, boulevard, main thoroughfare, controlled-access facility, connecting link, major traffic street, alley, or part of such street, highway, boulevard, thoroughfare, facility, link, or alley graded to a grade as established or changed in acco…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-396 Streets; grade; petition of property owners; order of city.
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A city may order any street or alley or part of such street or alley graded to an established grade whenever there is filed an approved petition of the record owners of a majority of the frontage of taxable property upon that part of the street proposed to be graded.