Chapter 18 — CITIES AND VILLAGES; LAWS APPLICABLE TO ALL
743 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2002 Street improvements; additional authorization.
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Any city or village may, without petition or creating a street improvement district, order the grading, curbing, guttering, and paving of any side street or alley within its corporate limits connecting with a major traffic street for a distance not to exceed one block from such m…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2003 Special taxes and assessments; bonds; warrants; interest on amounts due; contractor; sinking fund.
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In order to defray the costs and expenses of the improvements authorized by sections 18-2001 and 18-2002, the mayor and city council or chairperson and village board of trustees, as the case may be, may levy and collect special taxes and assessments upon the lots and parcels of r…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2004 Sections, how construed.
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Nothing in sections 18-2001 to 18-2004 shall be construed to repeal or amend any statutes except those specifically repealed, and sections 18-2001 to 18-2004 shall be supplemental to and in addition to any other laws of the State of Nebraska related to street improvements. Other …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2005 Street; common boundary with county or other municipality; concurrent and joint jurisdiction; limitation.
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The city council of any city shall have concurrent and joint jurisdiction with the county board of any county and the governing body of any other municipality over any street which is contiguous to and forms a common boundary between such city and county or municipality. The city…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-201 Direct borrowing; purposes; ordinance or resolution; public notice; limitation.
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(1) The mayor and city council of any city or board of trustees of any village, in addition to other powers granted by law, may by ordinance or resolution provide for direct borrowing from a financial institution for the purposes outlined in this section. Loans made under this se…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2101 Act, how cited.
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Sections 18-2101 to 18-2158 shall be known and may be cited as the Community Development Law.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2101.01 Creation of agency; cooperation with federal government; taxes, bonds, and notes; other powers.
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Cities of all classes and villages of this state are hereby granted power and authority to create a community development agency by ordinance, which agency may consist of the governing body of the city or village or a new or existing municipal division or department, or combinati…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2101.02 Extremely blighted area; governing body; duties; review; public hearing; period of validity.
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(1) For any city that (a) intends to prepare a redevelopment plan that will divide ad valorem taxes for a period of more than fifteen years but not more than twenty years as provided in subdivision (5)(a) of section 18-2147, (b) intends to declare an area as an extremely blighted…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2102 Legislative findings and declarations.
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It is hereby found and declared that there exist in cities of all classes and villages of this state areas which have deteriorated and become substandard and blighted because of the unsafe, insanitary, inadequate, or overcrowded condition of the dwellings therein, or because of i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2102.01 Creation of authority or limited authority; name; membership; terms; optional election; officers and employees; quorum; interest in contracts; accounts; loan from city; finances; deposits; audit.
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Cities of all classes and villages of this state are hereby granted power and authority to create community redevelopment authorities and limited community redevelopment authorities. (1) Whenever an authority or limited authority is created it shall bear the name of the city crea…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2103 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Community Development Law, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Affordable housing means (a) workforce housing, (b) housing targeted for households earning less than one hundred fifty percent of the median income for the county in which such housing is l…
Repealed. Laws 1969, c. 257, § 44.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2103.02 Acquisition of housing property; relocation of persons displaced.
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When any property consisting of housing is acquired for redevelopment by the authority, the authority shall provide for relocation of any persons displaced as a result thereof.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2104 Exercise of powers; objective.
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The governing body of a city, to the greatest extent it deems to be feasible in carrying out the provisions of the Community Development Law, shall afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the city as a whole, to the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the co…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2105 Formulation of workable program; disaster assistance; effect.
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(1) The governing body of a city or an authority at its direction for the purposes of the Community Development Law may formulate for the city a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate or prevent the development or spread of urban blig…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2106 Authority; member or employee; interest in project or property; restriction; disclosure.
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No member or employee of an authority shall voluntarily acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any redevelopment project or in any property included or planned by the authority to be included in any such project, or in any contract or proposed contract in connection with an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2107 Authority; powers and duties.
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An authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of the Community Development Law, including the powe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2108 Real estate; acquisition; requirement.
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An authority shall not acquire real property for a redevelopment project within the corporate limits of a city or a city's extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction unless the governing body of such city has approved the redevelopment plan, as prescribed in section 18-2116 or 18-2155.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2109 Redevelopment plan; preparation; requirements; planning commission or board; public hearing; notice; governing body; public hearing; notice; resolution.
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(1) A redevelopment plan for a redevelopment project area shall not be prepared and the governing body of the city in which such area is located shall not approve a redevelopment plan unless the governing body has, by resolution adopted after the public hearings required under th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2110 Plan; submission or recommendation; requirement.
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A redevelopment plan shall not be submitted or recommended to the governing body of the city in which the redevelopment project area is located until a general plan for the development of the city has been prepared.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2111 Plan; who may prepare; contents.
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(1) The authority may itself prepare or cause to be prepared a redevelopment plan or any person or agency, public or private, may submit such a plan to an authority. A redevelopment plan shall be sufficiently complete to indicate its relationship to definite local objectives as t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2112 Plan; submit to planning commission or board; recommendations.
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(1) Prior to recommending a redevelopment plan to the governing body for approval, an authority shall submit such plan to the planning commission or board of the city in which the redevelopment project area is located for review and recommendations as to its conformity with the g…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2113 Plan; considerations; cost-benefit analysis.
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(1) Prior to recommending a redevelopment plan to the governing body for approval, an authority shall consider whether the proposed land uses and building requirements in the redevelopment project area are designed with the general purpose of accomplishing, in conformance with th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2114 Plan; recommendations to governing body; statements required.
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(1) The recommendation of a redevelopment plan by an authority to the governing body shall be accompanied by the recommendations, if any, of the planning commission or board concerning the redevelopment plan; a statement of the proposed method and estimated cost of the acquisitio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2115 Redevelopment plan or substantial modification; public hearing; notice; governing body hearing; notice.
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(1) The planning commission or board of the city shall hold a public hearing on any redevelopment plan or substantial modification thereof after giving notice of the hearing as provided in section 18-2115.01. (2) After the hearing required under subsection (1) of this section, th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2115.01 Notice; manner.
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(1) For any hearing to be held pursuant to section 18-2101.02, 18-2109, or 18-2115: (a) The notice of hearing shall: (i) Be published at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the community; (ii) Be given to any neighborho…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2116 Plan; approval; findings.
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(1) Following the public hearings required under section 18-2115, the governing body may approve a redevelopment plan if (a) it finds and documents in writing that the plan is feasible and in conformity with the general plan for the development of the city as a whole and the plan…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2117 Plan; modification; conditions.
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A redevelopment plan which has not been approved by the governing body when submitted by a redeveloper under section 18-2155 or when recommended by the authority may again be submitted or recommended to the governing body with any modifications deemed advisable. A redevelopment p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2117.01 Plan; report to Property Tax Administrator; contents; compilation of data.
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(1)(a) On or before December 1 each year, each city which has approved one or more redevelopment plans which are financed in whole or in part through the division of taxes as provided in section 18-2147 shall provide a report to the Property Tax Administrator on each such redevel…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2117.02 Redevelopment projects; annual report; contents.
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On or before May 1 of each year, each authority, or such other division or department of the city as designated by the governing body, shall compile information regarding the approval and progress of redevelopment projects that are financed in whole or in part through the divisio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2117.03 Redevelopment project; inclusion of certain costs.
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(1) A redevelopment project that includes the division of taxes as provided in section 18-2147 shall not provide for the reimbursement of costs incurred prior to approval of the redevelopment project, except for costs relating to: (a) The preparation of materials and applications…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2117.04 City; retain plans and documents.
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(1) On and after October 1, 2018, each city that has approved one or more redevelopment plans or redevelopment projects that are financed in whole or in part through the division of taxes as provided in section 18-2147 shall retain copies of (a) all such redevelopment plans and (…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2118 Real estate; sell; lease; transfer; terms.
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An authority may sell, lease for a term not exceeding ninety-nine years, exchange, or otherwise transfer real property or any interest therein in a redevelopment project area to any redeveloper for residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, or other uses, including parkin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2119 Redevelopment contract proposal; notice; considerations; acceptance; disposal of real property; contract relating to real estate within an enhanced employment area; recordation; division of taxes; certification by redeveloper; retention of documents; additional requirements.
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(1) An authority shall, by public notice by publication once each week for two consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper having a general circulation in the city, prior to the consideration of any redevelopment contract proposal relating to real estate owned or to be owned by the au…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2120 Project; conveyance of property for public use.
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In carrying out a redevelopment project, an authority may: (1) Convey to the city in which the project is located, such real property as, in accordance with the redevelopment plan, is to be laid out into streets, alleys, and public ways; (2) grant servitudes, easements, and right…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2121 Real property; temporary operation, when.
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An authority may temporarily operate and maintain real property in a redevelopment project area pending the disposition of the property for redevelopment, without regard to the provisions of sections 18-2118 and 18-2119, for such uses and purposes as may be deemed desirable even …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2122 Real property; eminent domain; effect of resolution.
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An authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it may deem necessary for a redevelopment project or for its purposes under the Community Development Law after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2123 Undeveloped vacant land; acquisition, when.
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Upon a determination, by resolution, of the governing body of the city in which such land is located, that the acquisition and development of undeveloped vacant land, not within a substandard and blighted area, is essential to the proper clearance or redevelopment of substandard …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2123.01 Redevelopment project with property outside corporate limits and extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction; formerly used defense site; agreement with county authorized.
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(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Community Development Law to the contrary, a city may undertake a redevelopment project that includes real property located outside the corporate limits of such city and outside the city's extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction if the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2124 Bonds; issuance; sources of payment; limitations.
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An authority may issue bonds, including conduit revenue bonds subject to a taxpayer agreement entered into pursuant to subsection (3) of section 18-2147, from time to time in its discretion for any of its corporate purposes, including the payment of principal and interest upon an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2125 Bonds; liability; exempt from taxation; anticipation notes; renewal notes; terms; declaration of intent.
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Neither the members of an authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. The bonds and other obligations of the authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2126 Bonds; terms.
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Bonds of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, be payable upon demand or mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2127 Bonds; sale.
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The bonds may be sold by the authority in such manner and for such price as the authority may determine, at par or above par, at private sale or at public sale after notice published prior to such sale in a legal newspaper having general circulation in the municipality, or in suc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2128 Bonds; signatures; validity.
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In case any of the members or officers of the authority whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such members or officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2129 Bonds; actions; effect.
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In any suit, action, or proceedings involving the validity or enforceability of any bond of an authority or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the authority to aid in financing a redevelopment project, as herein defined, shall be…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2130 Bonds; authority; powers.
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In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, an authority, in addition to its other powers, shall have power: (1) To pledge all or any part of its gross or net rents, fees, o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2131 Bonds; default; causes of action.
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An authority may by resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, or other instrument confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as de…
Repealed. Laws 2001, LB 420, § 38.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2133 Bonds; obligee; causes of action.
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An obligee of an authority shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred upon such obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee: (1) By mandamus, suit, action, or proceeding at law or in equity to compel such author…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2134 Bonds; who may purchase.
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All public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies; all banks, trust companies, bankers, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a bankin…