LB 90 — Change provisions relating to improvement districts in cities of the first class

LB90 LB90 2025 LEGISLATURELEGISLATIVE OFBILL NEBRASKA90 ONEApproved HUNDREDby NINTHthe LEGISLATUREGovernor FIRSTMay SESSION13, LEGISLATIVE2025 BILL 90 FINAL READING   Introduced by Clements,Clouse, 2;37;

Clouse,Clements, 37;2;

Read  firstA timeBILL JanuaryFOR 10,AN 2025ACT Committee:relating to improvement districts;

Urban Affairs A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to improvement districts;

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska, -1- LB90 LB90 2025 Section 1.

16-617.0116-617.01 As 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 used in an improvement district connection therewith.

16-618 Any improvement district created pursuant to section 16-617 may shall include only portions of different streets, or portions of -2- LB90 LB90 2025 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 district in one ordinance so that such district, when created, makes up one continuous or extended street or more, except that the district may include a cul de sac, any street, alley, or portion thereof which is closed at one end or which connects with only one other existing street, alley, or portion thereof.

16-61916-619 For 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 mayor and city council of any city of the first class exercising authority to make improvements as provided under section 16-617 shall, by ordinance, create an improvement district or districts.

16-62016-620 After After publication of a notice required by section 16-619, if 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, or alley of an improvement district created pursuant to section 16-617, or portion thereof which is closed at one end, and who -3- LB90 LB90 2025 were such owners at the time the ordinance creating such district was published, shall file with the city clerk, within twenty days from the first publication of such notice, written objections to the creation improvement of such a district, such work shall not be done in such district under such ordinance, but such ordinance shall be repealed by the mayor and city council.

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(d) The regulations as to advertising for bids and opening of bids -4- LB90 LB90 2025 and postponing of action thereon and the right of selection of materials shall not apply in case of graveling for such district.

After the levy becomes -5- LB90 LB90 2025 delinquent, interest at the rate specified in section 45-104.01, as such rate may from time to time be adjusted by the Legislature, shall be paid thereon.

For assessments for graveling alone and without guttering or curbing, one-third of the total amount assessed against each lot or parcel of land shall become delinquent in fifty days after the date of the levy of the same, one-one-third third in one year, and one-third in two years.

16-623 For16-623 For the purpose of paying the cost of improvements to be made improving the streets, avenues, or alleys in an improvement district created pursuant to section 16-617 16-619 or 16-624, exclusive of intersections of streets or avenues, or spaces opposite alleys therein, the mayor and city council shall have power and may, by ordinance, cause to be issued bonds of the city , to be called Street Improvement Bonds of District No.

....., payable in not exceeding twenty years from date of -6- LB90 LB90 2025 the original issue of such bonds, and bearing interest, payable as provided in the ordinance authorizing such bonds either annually or semiannually, with interest coupons attached.

In such cases the mayor and city council they shall also provide that any the special taxes and assessments imposed pursuant to section 16-622 shall constitute a sinking -2- LB90 LB90 2025 fund for the payment of the bonds.

to pay -7- LB90 LB90 2025 for such improvements in the same manner and form as provided for in other improvement bonds.

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