Chapter 31 — DRAINAGE
492 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-504 Organization; election; notice; publication; form of ballot; canvass; returns; vote required.
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After such determination by the county board, or a majority thereof, it shall call a special election and submit to the legal voters of the proposed sanitary district the question of the organization of such district, and notice in a daily paper, if there be one, shall be given o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-505 Sanitary district trustees; election; organization; officers; corporate powers.
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Upon the organization of any such sanitary district the county board shall call an election for the election of trustees, who shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. Where such sanitary district does not contain a city of more than forty thousan…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-506 Trustees; general powers; clerk; engineer; publication of proceedings.
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The board of trustees shall elect one of their members clerk and have the power to appoint, employ and pay an engineer, who shall be removable at pleasure. The clerk may be paid not to exceed three hundred dollars per year by said board. The board shall have power to pass all nec…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-507 Trustees; drainage powers.
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The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under sections 31-501 to 31-523 shall have power to provide for the drainage of such district by laying out, establishing, maintaining and constructing one or more channels, drains or ditches for carrying off and disposing …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-507.01 Connection with sanitary sewer; permit required; violation; penalty.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to connect any property to a sanitary sewer, maintained by any sanitary drainage district or which has been or may hereafter be acquired from such district by the municipality located within such district and which is being maintained by such m…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-508 Ditches constructed from cities of the primary class; improvement beyond the district; plan and estimate; duties of Department of Water, Energy, and Environment.
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If a sanitary drainage district has constructed one or more channels, drains, or ditches from a city of the primary class to or beyond the boundaries of the district downstream and there remains from the lower terminus of such improvement a portion or continuation of the watercou…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-509 Ditches constructed from cities of 100,000 to 300,000 population; improvement beyond the district; publication of notices; election; vote required; effect of negative vote; special assessment.
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When the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment files a report and estimate, the county clerk of such county shall publish a notice once each week for three weeks in a newspaper published in the county seat of each of the counties having land within the sanitary drainage di…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-510 Borrowing money; bonds; interest; limit of indebtedness.
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Such district may borrow money for corporate purposes and issue bonds therefor, but it shall not become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount in the aggregate in excess of one and four-tenths percent of the taxable valuation of property in the district for county…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-511 Bonded indebtedness; election required; manner of submission.
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At the time of or before incurring any bonded indebtedness the question shall be submitted to the people in the manner provided by law in cases of borrowing money for internal improvements.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-512 Contracts for work; how let; notice; rejection of bids.
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All contracts for work to be done, the expense of which is more than fifteen hundred dollars, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, upon notice, of not less than twenty days, of the terms and conditions of the contract to be let. The board of trustees shall have power to…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-513 Annual tax levy; limit; certification to county clerk; collection; disbursement of funds.
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(1) The board of trustees may levy and collect annually taxes for corporate purposes upon property within the limits of such sanitary district to the amount of not more than three and five-tenths cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of the taxable property of …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-514 Special assessments; power of board of trustees; limit; improvement out of district; deferred assessment; charges; payment.
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The board of trustees shall have the power to defray the expenses of any improvement made by it in the execution of the powers hereby granted, by special assessment, by general taxation, or partly by special assessment and partly by general taxation, as it may determine by order.…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-515 Special assessments; levy; procedure; improvements recommended by Department of Water, Energy, and Environment.
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The proceedings for imposing of special assessment by the board of trustees shall be, as nearly as may be, according to those for special assessments by the mayor and council under the law governing cities of the first class. If improvements are recommended by the Department of W…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-516 Improvements recommended by Department of Water, Energy, and Environment; board of trustees as board of equalization; notice of meeting; appeal.
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Upon the completion of the improvement, notice shall be given that the trustees will sit as a board of equalization, at a day and hour in such notice stated, for the purpose of equalizing the assessments of such portion of the cost of such improvement as the report of the Departm…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-517 Improvements; costs borne by district.
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All costs of the improvement other than the costs to be covered by special assessments as finally determined shall be borne by the sanitary district.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-518 Delinquent assessments; interest; limit.
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No special assessment levied for the purpose aforesaid shall draw interest at a rate exceeding nine percent per annum from the date of delinquency until paid.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-519 Special assessments; payment; collection.
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Where any special assessment is made under sections 31-501 to 31-523, the order making such assessment may provide that it be divided into equal annual installments, not more than twenty in number with interest at seven percent, payable on the whole amount unpaid annually with th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-520 Property; right-of-way; how procured.
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Such sanitary district may acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, real or personal property, right-of-way, and privilege, within or without its corporate limits, necessary for its corporate purposes.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-521 Power of eminent domain; procedure.
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Whenever the board of trustees of any sanitary district shall by order determine to make any public improvement under sections 31-501 to 31-523 which shall require that private property be taken or damaged, the district may exercise the power of eminent domain for that purpose. T…
Repealed. Laws 1951, c. 101, § 127.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-523 Right-of-way; cost; assessment; annulment; reassessment.
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In the making of any special assessment for any improvement which requires the taking or damage of property, the cost of acquiring the right to take or to damage such property may be estimated and included in the assessment as a part of the cost of making such improvement. In the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-524 Municipalities adjacent to district; power of trustees; survey; report to county board.
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Whenever a sanitary drainage district shall have been formed under sections 31-501 to 31-523, and trustees thereof have been elected, if such trustees find that municipalities, including cities of the second class and villages, in whole or in part outside of the boundaries of suc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-525 Municipalities adjacent to district; inclusion; election; effect of affirmative vote.
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Upon the filing of such description and boundaries with the county board, the county board shall call an election within the entire area and submit to the qualified voters therein the question of the enlargement of such district to include all the territory within the proposed ne…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-526 Municipalities adjacent to district; inclusion; election; how conducted.
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Such election shall be held in the same manner as elections for the original organization of a sanitary drainage district under sections 31-501 to 31-523.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-527 Powers of sanitary district trustees over enlarged district; flood control.
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The enlarged district and the trustees thereof shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties throughout such enlarged territory previously vested in and imposed upon said district, and the trustees thereof within the original territory of said sanitary drainage district…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-528 Enlarged district; power to maintain adequate sewerage facilities; damages; payment to municipalities.
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In addition to the powers of said district and of the trustees thereof as originally vested, such enlarged district and the trustees thereof shall have power and jurisdiction to provide and maintain adequate and suitable sewerage systems for the entire district; to provide and ma…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-529 Enlarged district; power to contract with cities for use of city sewers.
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Such enlarged sanitary drainage district shall have power to enter into contracts with any or all municipalities wholly or partly within its territorial boundaries for the use in whole or in part of any sewerage system or sewerage mains in operation in said municipality or to be …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-530 Enlarged district; power to alter city sewers connecting with drainage district sewers.
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Such enlarged sanitary drainage district shall have power to take charge of, reconstruct, divert, alter or disconnect any main line sewer in any municipality, city or village, or unite the same with the sewerage system of the district, or to use any appropriate means deemed neces…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-531 Enlarged district; eminent domain; borrowing money; bonds; interest; issuance; election.
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Such enlarged district shall have the power of eminent domain under the same conditions as the original sanitary drainage district. Such enlarged district may borrow money for corporate purposes and issue bonds therefor, but it shall not become indebted in any manner to an amount…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-532 Enlarged district; procedure for apportioning benefits.
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Such enlarged sanitary drainage district shall have power to defray the expenses of any improvement made by it and to defray the expenses of carrying into execution the powers hereby granted by general taxation or by special assessment or partly by special assessment and partly b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-533 Enlarged district; trustees; salary.
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The trustees shall each receive as his salary the sum of seven hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly.
Repealed. Laws 1961, c. 286, § 1.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-534 Trustees; bond; amount; conditions; payment of premium.
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Each trustee of any such district shall, prior to entering upon his office, execute and file with the county clerk of the county in which said district, or the greater portion of the area thereof, is located, his bond, with one or more sureties, to be approved by the county clerk…
Repealed. Laws 1981, LB 497, § 1.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-536 Sanitary district; activities; discontinuance; election.
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Any sanitary district organized under the provisions of sections 31-501 to 31-534, may discontinue its activities and work as an independent governmental subdivision of the state whenever the question of such discontinuance shall be submitted to and ratified by the electors of sa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-537 Sanitary district; activities; discontinuance; election; notice; form of ballot.
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Upon filing such a resolution of the trustees or such a petition of the qualified electors with it, it shall be the duty of the county board, at least twenty days prior to the next state election, either primary or general, to submit at such election, after having published a not…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-538 Sanitary district; activities; discontinuance; effect on powers of trustees and property rights.
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(1) The result of such election shall be certified to the county board of the county in which such district is located, and if at such election a majority of the qualified electors actually voting in such sanitary district shall vote in favor of the discontinuance of the activiti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-539 Sanitary district; activities; discontinuance; effect on contract rights.
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Except as otherwise provided in section 31-543, all lawful claims, rights, and demands against such a district, and all contractual obligations of such a district, existing in any person at the time of discontinuance of the activities and work of such district, shall continue to …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-540 Sanitary district; activities; discontinuance; effect on power to levy taxes.
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Except as otherwise provided in section 31-543, for the purpose of discharging obligations of such district incurred prior to the discontinuance of its activities and work as provided in sections 31-501 to 31-534, such district shall continue to have the power to levy taxes as pr…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-541 Sanitary district; activities; discontinuance; powers of county board; succession.
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Except as otherwise provided in section 31-543, the county board of the county within which such district is located shall take possession of all rights and personal property, books, papers and records of such district, and shall discharge the duties within the territorial limits…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-542 Sanitary district; activities; discontinuance; trustees subsequently elected; powers and duties.
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Trustees elected subsequent to the adoption of the resolution or the petition provided for in section 31-536 shall be bound thereby, and shall surrender their office as provided for in section 31-538.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-542.01 Sanitary district; discontinuance; contract with city or village; public hearing; notice.
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(1) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Chapter 31, article 5, the board of trustees of any sanitary district heretofore or hereafter organized under any of such sections, which includes within its boundaries any incorporated city or village, shall have full power without fu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-543 Sanitary district; discontinuance; funds and property; city or riverfront development authority; rights and liability; conditions.
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(1) For a discontinued sanitary district which lies solely within the zoning jurisdiction of a city, title to all funds and all other property and property rights of the discontinued district, and all taxes, assessments, and demands of every kind due or owing to the discontinued …
Repealed. Laws 1989, LB 31, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1989, LB 31, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1989, LB 31, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1989, LB 31, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1989, LB 31, § 1.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-549 Sanitary district; extend beyond boundaries of municipality; inclusion by resolution of trustees.
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Whenever a sanitary drainage district shall have been formed under sections 31-501 to 31-523, and trustees thereof have been elected, if such trustees find that a municipality formerly within the boundaries of such sanitary district has grown and enlarged its corporate limits bey…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-550 Sanitary district; enlarged district; resolution; file with county clerk.
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The board of trustees shall cause a description of such enlarged district together with a certified copy of the resolution adopted to be filed with the county board of the county wherein such district is situated, and such district as so enlarged shall be deemed an organized sani…