Chapter 16 — CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS
399 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-503 Contracts; concurrence of majority of city council required; vote of mayor, when; record.
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On the passage or adoption of every resolution or order to enter into a contract, or accepting of work done under contract, by the mayor or city council of a city of the first class, the yeas and nays shall be called and entered upon the record. To pass or adopt any bylaw or ordi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6 Public buildings; construction; bonds authorized; approval of electors required, when.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Transferred to section 19-709.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1951, c. 101, § 127.
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Repealed. Laws 1951, c. 101, § 127.
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Repealed. Laws 1951, c. 101, § 127.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-605 Property; condemnation for streets; damages; how paid.
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Payment of damages assessed for the appropriation of private property for streets, alleys or boulevards in cities of the first class may be made out of the general or any other surplus fund.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-606 Property; condemnation for streets; assessments; levy; collection.
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The city council of a city of the first class may assess and levy the whole expense and damage incurred in the creation of any street, avenue, or alley upon the real property fronting upon the same and other property nearby that may be benefited thereby in proportions according t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-607 Property; condemnation for other public purposes; bonds; issuance; approval by electors.
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(1) Payment of damages assessed for the appropriation of private property for any of the purposes provided in section 19-709 but not provided for in section 16-606 may be made by the sale of the negotiable bonds of the city, and for that purpose the mayor and city council shall h…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-608 Property; condemnation; plat; filing.
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All cities of the first class upon condemning private property, shall cause to be recorded an accurate plat and a clear, definite description of the property so taken in the office of the register of deeds for the county within which such city is located, within sixty days after …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-609 Improvements; power of city council.
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The city council of a city of the first class shall have power to open, control, name, rename, extend, widen, narrow, vacate, grade, curb, gutter, park, and pave or otherwise to improve and control and keep in good repair and condition, in any manner it may deem proper, any stree…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-609.01 Land abutting street; industrial tract or school site; improvement; agreement.
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Whenever any street of any city of the first class is partly inside the city and partly outside the city, and the land outside the city abutting on such street is an industrial tract or a school site, or the property of the state or any political subdivision thereof, such street …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-610 Public ways; maintenance and repair.
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The mayor and city council of a city of the first class shall have the care, supervision and control of all public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares and commons, and shall cause the same to be kept open and in repair and free from nuisances.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-611 Vacation of street or alley; abutting property; how treated.
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(1) Upon the vacation of any street or alley by a city of the first class, the title to such property shall vest in the owners of the abutting property and become a part of such property, one-half on each side thereof, unless the city reserves title in the ordinance vacating such…
Repealed. Laws 1980, LB 660, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-613 Bridges; repair; duty of county; aid by city, when.
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All public bridges within a city of the first class, exceeding sixty feet in length, and the approaches thereto, over any stream crossing a county highway, shall be constructed and kept in repair by the county. When any city of the first class has constructed or repaired a bridge…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-614 House numbers.
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The mayor and city council of a city of the first class may provide for regulating and requiring the numbering of houses along public streets or avenues.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-615 Grade or change of grade; procedure; damages; how ascertained; special assessments.
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(1) The mayor and city council of a city of the first class may establish the grade of any street, avenue, or alley in the city or within a county industrial area as defined in section 13-1111 contiguous to such city. When the grade of any street, avenue, or alley has been establ…
Repealed. Laws 1951, c. 101, § 127.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-617 Improvement districts; power to establish; purposes; special assessments.
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The mayor and city council of any city of the first class shall have power to construct and make improvements of any street, streets, alley, alleys, sidewalk, sidewalks, public way, public ways, other public spaces, or any part of any street, streets, alley, alleys, sidewalk, sid…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-617.01 Improvement, defined.
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As used in sections 16-617 to 16-649, improvement shall include, but shall not be limited to, paving, repaving, graveling, grading, curbing, guttering, and the construction and replacement of pedestrian walks, plazas, malls, landscaping, lighting systems, and permanent facilities…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-618 Improvement districts; property included; types of improvements.
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Any improvement district created pursuant to section 16-617 may include portions of different streets, alleys, sidewalks, public ways, or other public spaces or portions of each, which abut, intersect, or adjoin, and may include two or more types of improvements in a single distr…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-619 Improvement districts; creation; notice.
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For every improvement district within which any of the improvements are to be funded by a levy of special assessments on the property especially benefited, after the passage, approval, and publication of an ordinance creating such district, the city clerk shall publish notice of …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-620 Improvement districts; objections of property owners; effect.
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After publication of a notice required by section 16-619, if the owners of the record title at the time of such publication representing more than fifty percent of the front footage of the property abutting, intersecting, or adjoining any continuous or extended street, cul de sac…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-621 Improvement districts; materials; kind; petition of landowners; bids; advertisement.
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(1) In advertising for bids for paving, repaving, graveling, or macadamizing, the mayor and city council of a city of the first class may provide for bids on different materials and types of construction. (2)(a) In advertising for bids for improvements in an improvement district …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-621.01 Improvements of streets and alleys; use of salt stabilized base or armor coating, when.
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A city of the first class may improve its streets and alleys by the use of salt stabilized base or armor coating in the same manner, to the same extent, and with the same limitations as provided by law for paving or repaving such streets or alleys. All provisions of law respectin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-622 Improvement districts; assessments; how levied; when delinquent; interest; collection; procedure.
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The cost of making improvements of the streets and alleys within any improvement district created pursuant to section 16-617 or 16-624, which are to be funded by the levy of special assessments on the property especially benefited in proportion to such benefits, shall be assessed…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-623 Improvement districts; bonds; interest.
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For the purpose of paying the cost of improvements to be made in an improvement district created pursuant to section 16-617 or 16-624, the mayor and city council shall have power and may, by ordinance, cause to be issued bonds of the city payable in not exceeding twenty years fro…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-624 Improvement districts; creation upon petition; denial; assessments; bonds.
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Whenever the owners of lots or lands abutting upon any street, avenue, or alley within a city of the first class, representing three-fourths of the front footage thereon, so that an improvement district when created will make up one continuous or extended thoroughfare or more, sh…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-625 Intersections; improvements; railways; duty to pave right-of-way.
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The cost of improving the intersections of streets or avenues and spaces opposite alleys in an improvement district, except as specially provided in sections 16-609 to 16-624, shall be paid by the city as provided in sections 16-625 to 16-628. Nothing in sections 16-617 to 16-650…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-626 Intersection improvement bonds; amount; interest; warrants; partial payments; final payment; interest; restrictions on work.
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In a city of the first class, for all improvements of the intersections and areas formed by the crossing of streets, avenues, or alleys, and one-half of the streets adjacent to real estate owned by the United States, the State of Nebraska, or the city, the assessment shall be mad…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-627 Intersections; improvement; cost; tax levy.
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The cost and expense of improving, constructing, or repairing streets, avenues, alleys, and sidewalks, at their intersections as provided in section 16-626, may be included in the special tax levied for the construction or improvement of any one street, avenue, alley, or sidewalk…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-628 Improvements; tax; when due.
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Special taxes as provided in section 16-627 shall be due and may be collected as the improvements are completed in front of or along or upon any block or piece of ground, or at the time the improvement is entirely completed or otherwise, as shall be provided in the ordinance levy…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-629 Curbs and gutters; authorized; petition; formation of district; bonds.
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In a city of the first class, curbing and guttering shall not be required or ordered to be laid on any street, avenue or alley not ordered to be paved, repaved, graveled or macadamized, except on a petition of the owners of two-thirds of the front footage of property abutting alo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-630 Curbing and guttering bonds; interest rate; special assessments; how levied.
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If curbing, or curbing and guttering, is done upon any street, avenue, or alley in any improvement district in a city of the first class in which paving or other such improvement has been ordered, and the mayor and city council shall deem it expedient to do so, the mayor and city…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-631 Curbing and guttering; cost; paving bonds may include; special assessment.
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If an improvement district has been established in a city of the first class, an improvement thereon constructed, and curbing, or curbing and guttering, is therewith constructed and it becomes necessary to issue and sell street improvement bonds to pay for the cost of constructio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-632 Improvement districts; assessments; when authorized; ordinary repairs excepted.
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In order to defray the costs and expenses of improvements in any improvement district in a city of the first class, the mayor and city council shall have power and authority to levy and collect special taxes and assessments upon the lots and pieces of ground adjacent to or abutti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-633 Improvements; assessments against public lands.
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If, in any city of the first class, there shall be any real estate belonging to any county, school district, city, village, or other political subdivision abutting upon the street, avenue, or alley whereon paving or other improvements have been ordered, it shall be the duty of th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-634 Improvements; real estate owned by minor or protected person; petition; guardian or conservator may sign.
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If, in any city of the first class, there shall be any real estate of any minor or protected person, the guardian or conservator of such minor or protected person may sign any petition referred to by law, and such signature shall have like force and effect as that of other proper…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-635 Improvements; terms, defined; depth to which assessable.
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(1) For purposes of sections 16-617 to 16-650: (a) Lot means a lot as described and designated upon the record plat of any city of the first class, or within a county industrial area as defined in section 13-1111 contiguous to such city. If there is no recorded plat of any such c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-636 Improvement districts; land which city council may include.
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The mayor and city council may, in their discretion, include all the real estate to be charged and assessed with the cost of such improvements in the improvement districts described in sections 16-617 to 16-635 but are not required to do so. The mayor and city council may, in the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-637 Improvements; special tax; assessments; action to recover.
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Any party feeling aggrieved by any special tax or assessment, or proceeding for improvements in a city of the first class, may pay such special taxes assessed and levied upon his, her, or its property, or such installments thereof as may be due at any time before the special tax …
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 339, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 339, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 339, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 339, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 339, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 339, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 339, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-645 Damages caused by construction; procedure.
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In a city of the first class, all cases of damages arising from the creation or widening of new streets, avenues, or alleys, from the appropriation of property for sewers, parks, parkways, public squares, public heating plants, power plants, gas works, electric light plants, wate…