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NE Code § 31-450 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-450 - Future districts; election; when held; notice; publication; limit of indebtedness; changing plans; abandonment.

31-450.  Future districts; election; when held; notice; publication; limit of indebtedness; changing plans; abandonment.In all districts hereafter organized, the board of directors, having first adopted detailed plans and specifications of the work proposed to be done, having made an estimate of the total cost of such contemplated improvement, and having filed such plans, specifications, and estimated cost with the clerk of the county having the largest area of land, shall then publish a notice once each week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper in each county of an election to vote on the question of proceeding with such work and incurring the necessary liability in all cases in which the estimate of the contemplated work equals seven percent of the taxable value of the lands assessed for such improvement. The election shall be held in all respects as other elections provided for in sections 31-401 to 31-450. If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of proceeding with the work and incurring the necessary liability, then the board, in proceeding therein, shall not incur indebtedness in a total sum in excess of the estimated cost so filed and published. No changes in such plans and specifications shall be made thereafter by the board which cost in the aggregate more than fifteen percent above such estimated cost. If a majority of the votes at such election vote against proceeding and incurring the liability, then the board shall abandon the work and shall thereupon certify to the county clerks a tax levy on all the tracts in the district by valuation sufficient to pay all the liabilities of the district, and the levy shall be entered and collected as other general taxes and used to pay the liabilities.Source   Laws 1911, c. 145, § 1, p. 487;   R.S.1913, § 1914;   Laws 1921, c. 280, § 1, p. 924;   C.S.1922, § 1862;   C.S.1929, § 31-550;   R.S.1943, § 31-450;   Laws 1979, LB 187, § 134;   Laws 1992, LB 719A, § 122.  Annotations  This section applies only when cost of contemplated work equals or exceeds twenty percent of the assessed value of the lands. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Payne Creek Drainage Dist., 148 Neb. 139, 26 N.W.2d 607 (1947). This section indicates the necessity of first having adopted plans and specifications of the work proposed to be done and an estimate of the cost. Haecke v. Eastern Sarpy County Drainage Dist., 141 Neb. 628, 4 N.W.2d 744 (1942). One appealing from levy of assessment for alleged benefits by drainage district waives right to insist that no apportionment of benefits was made. Rudersdorf Drainage District v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co., 118 Neb. 43, 223 N.W. 639 (1929). This section does not apply to drainage districts organized before its enactment. Sandy v. Western Sarpy Drainage District, 102 Neb. 713, 169 N.W. 268 (1918). Section is constitutional. State ex rel. Gantz v. Drainage District No. 1 of Merrick County, 100 Neb. 625, 160 N.W. 997 (1916).
NE Code § 31-501 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-501 - Sanitary drainage district in municipality; organization; petition for election.

31-501.  Sanitary drainage district in municipality; organization; petition for election.Whenever one or more municipalities may be situated upon or near a stream which is bordered by lands subject to overflow from natural causes, or which is obstructed by dams or artificial obstructions so that the natural flow of waters is impeded so that drainage or the improvement of the channel of the stream will conduce to the preservation of public health, such municipalities and the surrounding lands deleteriously affected by the conditions of the stream, may be incorporated as a sanitary drainage district under sections 31-501 to 31-523 in the manner following: Any one hundred legal voters, residents within the limits of such proposed sanitary drainage district, may petition the county board of the county wherein they reside to cause the question to be submitted to the legal voters within the limits of such proposed sanitary drainage district whether they will organize as a sanitary drainage district under such sections. In the case of municipalities of less than one thousand inhabitants, as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census, two-thirds of the legal voters, residents within the limits of such proposed sanitary drainage district, may petition the county board of the county wherein they reside to cause the question to be submitted to the legal voters within the limits of such proposed sanitary drainage district whether they will organize as a sanitary drainage district under such sections, and if a majority of those voting on the question are in favor of the proposition the district shall be organized.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 1, p. 287;   R.S.1913, § 1922;   Laws 1919, c. 142, § 1, p. 320;   C.S.1922, § 1863;   C.S.1929, § 31-601;   R.S.1943, § 31-501;  Laws 2017, LB113, § 35.  Annotations Sanitary District Act sustained as constitutional. Whedon v. Wells, 95 Neb. 517, 145 N.W. 1007 (1914).
NE Code § 31-502 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-502 - Organization; petition; contents; territory included.

31-502.  Organization; petition; contents; territory included.Such petition shall contain a definite description of the territory intended to be embraced in such district according to government survey, and the name of the proposed district; but no lands not included within any municipal corporation, or within three miles thereof, shall be included in any sanitary district, nor shall any lands not within an incorporated town be included within any sanitary district, unless the same be within three miles of the channel of such stream or of the area of lands subject to its overflow.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 1, p. 287;   R.S.1913, § 1923;   C.S.1922, § 1864;   C.S.1929, § 31-602;   R.S.1943, § 31-502.
NE Code § 31-503 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-503 - Organization; hearing on petition; notice; publication; boundaries of district.

31-503.  Organization; hearing on petition; notice; publication; boundaries of district.Upon the filing of such petition in the office of the county board it shall give notice in one or more newspapers daily, if there be a daily paper in said county, during twenty days prior to such meeting, of the time and place where the petition will be heard. At the time so fixed the board shall meet, and all persons in such proposed sanitary district shall have opportunity to be heard touching the location and boundary of the proposed district. Thereupon the county board shall by an order determine the boundaries of such district, whether described in such petition or otherwise.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 1, p. 288;   R.S.1913, § 1924;   C.S.1922, § 1865;   C.S.1929, § 31-603;   R.S.1943, § 31-503.
NE Code § 31-504 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-504 - Organization; election; notice; publication; form of ballot; canvass; returns; vote required.

31-504.  Organization; election; notice; publication; form of ballot; canvass; returns; vote required.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 of such election twenty days prior thereto. At such election each legal voter resident within the proposed sanitary district shall have a right to cast a ballot with the words thereon, For sanitary district, or Against sanitary district, and the ballots cast shall be received, returned and canvassed in the same manner as upon county elections. The result shall be entered of record, and if a majority of the votes cast be in favor of the proposed district, such proposed district shall be deemed an organized sanitary district under sections 31-501 to 31-523.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 1, p. 288;   R.S.1913, § 1925;   C.S.1922, § 1866;   C.S.1929, § 31-604;   R.S.1943, § 31-504.
NE Code § 31-505 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-505 - Sanitary district trustees; election; organization; officers; corporate powers.

31-505.  Sanitary district trustees; election; organization; officers; corporate powers.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 thousand inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census, there shall be three trustees, and where such sanitary district contains a city of more than forty thousand inhabitants as so determined, there shall be five trustees. In districts having three trustees, at the first general state election held in November after the organization of the district, there shall be elected one trustee for a term of two years and two trustees for a term of four years, and thereafter their respective successors shall be elected for a term of four years at the general state election held in November immediately prior to the expiration of their respective terms. In districts having five trustees, at the first general state election held in November after the organization of the district, there shall be elected two trustees for a term of two years and three trustees for a term of four years, and thereafter their respective successors shall be elected for a term of four years at the general state election held in November immediately prior to the expiration of their respective terms. At the first meeting after election of one or more members, the board shall elect one of their number president and, in case they fail to elect, then the member who at his or her election received the highest number of votes shall be president of such board. Such district shall be a body corporate and politic by name of Sanitary District of .............., with power to sue, be sued, contract, acquire and hold property, and adopt a common seal.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 2, p. 288;   R.S.1913, § 1926;   C.S.1922, § 1867;   C.S.1929, § 31-605;   Laws 1943, c. 75, § 3, p. 259;   R.S.1943, § 31-505;   Laws 1949, c. 81, § 1, p. 214;  Laws 2019, LB67, § 7.
NE Code § 31-506 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-506 - Trustees; general powers; clerk; engineer; publication of proceedings.

31-506.  Trustees; general powers; clerk; engineer; publication of proceedings.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 necessary ordinances, orders, rules and regulations for the necessary conduct of its business and to carry into effect the objects for which such sanitary district is formed. Immediately after each regular and special meeting of said board, it shall cause to be published, in one newspaper of general circulation in the district, a brief statement of its proceedings, including an itemized list of bills and claims allowed, specifying the amount of each, to whom paid and for what purpose; Provided, no publication shall be required unless the same can be done at an expense not exceeding one-third of the legal rate for advertising notices.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 3, p. 289;   R.S.1913, § 1927;   C.S.1922, § 1868;   C.S.1929, § 31-606;   Laws 1943, c. 76, § 1, p. 261;   R.S.1943, § 31-506. Cross References  For legal rate for publishing notices, see section 33-141.
NE Code § 31-507 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-507 - Trustees; drainage powers.

31-507.  Trustees; drainage powers.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 of the drainage and sewage of such district in a satisfactory manner, and for such purpose to straighten, widen, or deepen the channel of any stream, or remove any dam, so as to quicken and improve the flow of any stream, or effect satisfactory and efficient drainage.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 4, p. 289;   R.S.1913, § 1928;   C.S.1922, § 1869;   Laws 1927, c. 144, § 1, p. 390;   C.S.1929, § 31-607;   R.S.1943, § 31-507.
NE Code § 31-507.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-507.01 - Connection with sanitary sewer; permit required; violation; penalty.

31-507.01.  Connection with sanitary sewer; permit required; violation; penalty.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 municipality, without first having applied for and obtained a permit from such district or municipality to establish such connection. The issuance of such a permit may be conditioned upon the payment of a deferred assessment as provided in section 31-514. Each day that a connection made unlawful by this section continues shall be a separate violation of this section. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each violation.Source  Laws 1957, c. 115, § 1, p. 395.
NE Code § 31-508 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-508 - Ditches constructed from cities of 100,000 to 300,000 population; improvement beyond the district; plan and estimate; duty of Department of Natural Resources.

31-508.  Ditches constructed from cities of 100,000 to 300,000 population; improvement beyond the district; plan and estimate; duty of Department of Natural Resources.If a sanitary drainage district has constructed one or more channels, drains, or ditches from a city having a population of more than one hundred thousand and less than three hundred thousand inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census 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 watercourse unimproved, the Department of Natural Resources shall investigate the conditions of such watercourse, and if the department determines that further improvement in such watercourse downstream is for the interest of lands adjacent to such watercourse below the point of the improvement, the department shall file a plan of such improvement in the office of the county clerk of each of the counties in which any of the lands to be benefited are situated and in which any portion of the watercourse to be improved is located. Such plan shall describe the boundaries of the district to be benefited and shall contain an estimate of the benefits that would accrue to the sanitary district by reason of such improvement as well as the cost thereof and an estimate of the special benefits that would accrue to lands adjacent to the watercourse by reason of improved drainage, such estimate being detailed as to the various tracts of land under separate ownership as shown by the records of the county in which such lands are situated.Source   Laws 1927, c. 144, § 1, p. 390;   C.S.1929, § 31-607;   R.S.1943, § 31-508;   Laws 1949, c. 81, § 2, p. 214;   Laws 1969, c. 248, § 1, p. 906;  Laws 2000, LB 900, § 71;  Laws 2017, LB113, § 36.
NE Code § 31-509 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|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.

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.When the Department of Natural Resources 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 district, which notice shall state the filing of the report and estimate, the boundaries of the district to be benefited, that an election will be held at the office of the county clerk between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on a day named in the notice, and that at the election the question of the formation of a sanitary drainage district to include the area described in the report will be determined. The election shall be held in accordance with sections 31-406 to 31-408, except that no directors shall be elected. If a majority vote for the creation of a district based on acreage represented, the sanitary drainage district shall have jurisdiction to make the improvements recommended by the Department of Natural Resources and to levy a special assessment on the lands specially benefited. If a majority vote against the creation of a district, the work shall not be done.Source   Laws 1927, c. 144, § 1, p. 390;   C.S.1929, § 31-607;   R.S.1943, § 31-509;   Laws 1961, c. 138, § 5, p. 399;  Laws 2000, LB 900, § 72;  Laws 2015, LB361, § 51.  Annotations Under former law, that part of statute precluding recovery of claim for damages is unconstitutional. Cooper v. Sanitary Dist. No. 1, 146 Neb. 412, 19 N.W.2d 619 (1945).
NE Code § 31-510 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-510 - Borrowing money; bonds; interest; limit of indebtedness.

31-510.  Borrowing money; bonds; interest; limit of indebtedness.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 purposes.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 6, p. 290;   R.S.1913, § 1929;   C.S.1922, § 1870;   C.S.1929, § 31-608;   R.S.1943, § 31-510;   Laws 1969, c. 51, § 93, p. 332;   Laws 1979, LB 187, § 135;   Laws 1992, LB 719A, § 123.  Annotations Sanitary districts may borrow money for corporate purposes. Lang v. Sanitary District of Norfolk, 160 Neb. 754, 71 N.W.2d 608 (1955).
NE Code § 31-511 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-511 - Bonded indebtedness; election required; manner of submission.

31-511.  Bonded indebtedness; election required; manner of submission.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.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 7, p. 290;   R.S.1913, § 1930;   C.S.1922, § 1871;   C.S.1929, § 31-609;   R.S.1943, § 31-511. Annotations To carry bond issue, favorable vote of two-thirds of electors was required. Lang v. Sanitary District of Norfolk, 160 Neb. 754, 71 N.W.2d 608 (1955).
NE Code § 31-512 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-512 - Contracts for work; how let; notice; rejection of bids.

31-512.  Contracts for work; how let; notice; rejection of bids.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 reject any and all bids and readvertise for the letting of such work.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 8, p. 290;   R.S.1913, § 1931;   C.S.1922, § 1872;   C.S.1929, § 31-610;   R.S.1943, § 31-512;   Laws 1959, c. 128, § 1, p. 464.
NE Code § 31-513 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-513 - Annual tax levy; limit; certification to county clerk; collection; disbursement of funds.

31-513.  Annual tax levy; limit; certification to county clerk; collection; disbursement of funds.(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 such district.(2) The board of trustees shall, on or before September 30 of each year, certify the amount of tax to be levied to the county clerk who shall place the proper levy upon the county tax list, and the tax shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as county taxes.(3) The tax money collected by the levy shall be used exclusively for the purpose or purposes set forth in subsection (1) of this section. The county treasurer shall disburse the taxes on warrants of the board of trustees, and in respect to such fund, the county treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer of the sanitary district.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 9, p. 290;   R.S.1913, § 1932;   C.S.1922, § 1873;   C.S.1929, § 31-611;   Laws 1943, c. 73, § 1, p. 255;   R.S.1943, § 31-513;   Laws 1947, c. 113, § 1, p. 308;   Laws 1951, c. 97, § 1, p. 266;   Laws 1953, c. 287, § 51, p. 960;   Laws 1955, c. 114, § 1, p. 305;   Laws 1969, c. 248, § 2, p. 907;   Laws 1969, c. 145, § 32, p. 692;   Laws 1979, LB 187, § 136;   Laws 1992, LB 1063, § 28;   Laws 1992, Second Spec. Sess., LB 1, § 28;   Laws 1993, LB 734, § 36;   Laws 1995, LB 452, § 9;  Laws 2021, LB644, § 14.   Operative Date: January 1, 2022
NE Code § 31-514 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Drainage|31-514 - Special assessments; power of board of trustees; limit; improvement out of district; deferred assessment; charges; payment.

31-514.  Special assessments; power of board of trustees; limit; improvement out of district; deferred assessment; charges; payment.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. It shall constitute no defense to any tax or special assessment that the improvement, for which the same is imposed, lies partly outside of the limits of such district. No property shall be specially assessed more than it is benefited by the improvement for which the assessment is levied; Provided, that a deferred assessment, not exceeding the pro rata cost of the construction of sanitary sewers, may be made and collected solely in the form of a connection charge, if and when property not specially benefited is later connected to such sewer. The amount of such charge shall be fixed by the board of trustees at the same time such special assessments are made. Such deferred assessments shall not constitute a lien. The board of trustees shall make a detailed report of said deferred assessments and file such report with the county clerk in the county where the property is located.Source   Laws 1891, c. 36, § 10, p. 291;   R.S.1913, § 1933;   C.S.1922, § 1874;   Laws 1927, c. 144, § 2, p. 391;   C.S.1929, § 31-612;   Laws 1933, c. 136, § 26, p. 538;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 31-612;   R.S.1943, § 31-514;   Laws 1955, c. 115, § 1, p. 307.