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NE Code § 17-922 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-922 - Sewers; assessments; interest; exempt property; cost; how paid.

17-922.  Sewers; assessments; interest; exempt property; cost; how paid.No city council or village board of trustees shall cause to be assessed for any of the improvements authorized pursuant to section 17-913, property by law not assessable, or property not included within the district defined in the preliminary resolution, and shall not assess property not benefited. The cost of sewers at the intersection of streets and alleys and opposite property belonging to the United States Government, or other property not assessable, may be included with the cost of the rest of the work and may be assessed on the property within the district, if benefited by the improvement to such extent, or may be paid from unappropriated money in the general fund. The cost of the improvements shall draw interest from the date of acceptance thereof by the city council or village board of trustees.Source   Laws 1919, c. 189, § 10, p. 431;   C.S.1922, § 4346;   C.S.1929, § 17-537;   R.S.1943, § 17-922;   Laws 1969, c. 51, § 53, p. 305;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 257.  Annotations  In absence of a jurisdictional defect in proceedings, where property owner had opportunity but failed to present his objections to the municipal body making assessments for local improvements, he cannot thereafter attack collaterally the levy so made. Weilage v. City of Crete, 110 Neb. 544, 194 N.W. 437 (1923). In levying special assessments for construction of sewers, they should be confined to abutting property only. Hurd v. Sanitary Sewer District No. 1 of Harvard, 109 Neb. 384, 191 N.W. 438 (1922).
NE Code § 17-923 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-923 - Sewers; assessments; when due; interest.

17-923.  Sewers; assessments; when due; interest.All special assessments provided for in section 17-921 shall become due in fifty days after the date of the levy and may be paid within that time without interest, but if not so paid they shall bear interest thereafter until delinquent. Such assessment shall become delinquent in equal annual installments over such period of years as the city council or village board of trustees may determine at the time of making the levy. Delinquent installments shall bear interest at the rate specified in section 45-104.01, as such rate may from time to time be adjusted by the Legislature, until paid and shall be collected in the usual manner for the collection of taxes.Source   Laws 1919, c. 189, § 11, p. 431;   C.S.1922, § 4347;   Laws 1923, c. 143, § 2, p. 356;   C.S.1929, § 17-538;   R.S.1943, § 17-923;   Laws 1949, c. 27, § 2, p. 100;   Laws 1953, c. 35, § 1, p. 126;   Laws 1959, c. 64, § 5, p. 288;   Laws 1969, c. 51, § 54, p. 306;   Laws 1980, LB 933, § 20;   Laws 1981, LB 167, § 21;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 258.
NE Code § 17-924 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-924 - Sewers; assessments; sinking fund; purpose.

17-924.  Sewers; assessments; sinking fund; purpose.All the special assessments provided for in section 17-921 shall, when levied, constitute a sinking fund for the purpose of paying the cost of the improvements authorized pursuant to section 17-913 with allowable interest thereon, and shall be solely and strictly applied to such purpose to the extent required. Any excess assessments may be transferred to such other fund or funds as the city council or village board of trustees may deem advisable after fully discharging the purposes for which they were levied.Source   Laws 1919, c. 189, § 13, p. 432;   C.S.1922, § 4349;   C.S.1929, § 17-539;   R.S.1943, § 17-924;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 259.
NE Code § 17-925 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-925 - Sewers; bonds; term; rate of interest; partial payments; final payment; contractor; interest; special assessments; tax authorized.

17-925.  Sewers; bonds; term; rate of interest; partial payments; final payment; contractor; interest; special assessments; tax authorized.For the purpose of paying the cost of the improvements authorized pursuant to section 17-913, the city council of any city of the second class or village board of trustees of any village, after such improvements have been completed and accepted, shall have the power to issue negotiable bonds of such city or village, to be called Sewer Bonds, payable in not exceeding twenty years and bearing interest payable annually or semiannually, which may either be sold by the city or village or delivered to the contractor in payment for the work, but in either case for not less than their par value. For the purpose of making partial payments as the work progresses, warrants may be issued by the mayor and city council or by the village board of trustees upon certificates of the engineer in charge showing the amount of work completed and materials necessarily purchased and delivered for the orderly and proper continuation of the project, in a sum not exceeding ninety-five percent of the cost of such project and upon the completion and acceptance of the work issue a final warrant for a balance of the amount due the contractor, which warrants shall be redeemed and paid upon the sale of the bonds issued and sold. The city or village shall pay to the contractor interest at the rate of eight percent per annum on the amounts due on partial and final payments beginning forty-five days after the certification of the amounts due by the engineer in charge and approval by the governing body and running until the date that the warrant is tendered to the contractor. All special assessments which may be levied upon property specially benefited by such work or improvements shall, when collected, be set aside and constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the interest and principal of such bonds. There shall be levied annually upon all the taxable property in such city or village a tax, which, together with such sinking fund derived from special assessments, shall be sufficient to meet payments of interest and principal as the same become due. Such tax shall be known as the sewer tax and shall be payable annually in money.Source   Laws 1919, c. 189, § 14, p. 432;   C.S.1922, § 4350;   C.S.1929, § 17-540;   Laws 1931, c. 34, § 1, p. 126;   Laws 1935, c. 35, § 1, p. 146;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 17-540;   R.S.1943, § 17-925;   Laws 1963, c. 70, § 2, p. 272;   Laws 1969, c. 51, § 55, p. 306;   Laws 1974, LB 636, § 4;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 260.  Annotations Cost of main sewers in excess of special benefits can only be paid for by means of general taxation. Hurd v. Sanitary Sewer District No. 1 of Harvard, 109 Neb. 384, 191 N.W. 438 (1922).
NE Code § 17-925.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-925.01 - Sewers; water utilities; maintenance and repair; tax authorized; service rate in lieu of tax; lien.

17-925.01.  Sewers; water utilities; maintenance and repair; tax authorized; service rate in lieu of tax; lien.The mayor and city council of any city of the second class or the village board of trustees is hereby authorized, after the establishment of a system of sewerage and at the time of levying other taxes for city or village purposes, to levy a tax of not more than three and five-tenths cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of all the taxable property in such city or village for the purpose of creating a fund to be used for the maintenance and repairing of any sewer or water utilities in such city or village. In lieu of the levy of such tax, the mayor and city council or the village board of trustees may establish by ordinance such rates for such sewer service as may be deemed to be fair and reasonable, to be collected from either the owner or the person, firm, or corporation requesting the services at such times, either monthly, quarterly, or otherwise, as may be specified in the ordinance. All sewer charges shall be a lien upon the premises or real estate for which the same is used or supplied. Such lien shall be enforced in such manner as the city council or village board of trustees provides by ordinance. The charges thus made when collected shall be placed either in a separate fund or in a combined water and sewer fund and used exclusively for the purpose of maintenance and repairs of the sewer system, or the water and sewer system, in such city or village.Source   Laws 1903, c. 22, § 9, p. 258;   R.S.1913, § 5048;   C.S.1922, § 4217;   Laws 1923, c. 188, § 1, p. 432;   C.S.1929, § 17-156;   Laws 1943, c. 33, § 2, p. 151;   R.S.1943, § 17-925.01;   Laws 1947, c. 51, § 2, p. 172;   Laws 1951, c. 37, § 1, p. 138;   Laws 1953, c. 287, § 22, p. 944;   Laws 1979, LB 187, § 59;   Laws 1992, LB 719A, § 61;   Laws 1997, LB 67, § 1;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 261.
NE Code § 17-925.02 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-925.02 - Sewers; rental charges; collection.

17-925.02.  Sewers; rental charges; collection.Any city of the second class or village may make rental charges for the use of an established municipal sewerage system on a fair and impartial basis for services rendered. Such rental charges shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as water charges by the same city or village.Source   Laws 1947, c. 43, § 1, p. 159;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 262.
NE Code § 17-925.03 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-925.03 - Sewers; rental charges; reduction in taxes.

17-925.03.  Sewers; rental charges; reduction in taxes.The revenue from rental charges under section 17-925.02 shall only be used for the abatement or the reduction of ad valorem taxes being levied or to be levied for the payment of bonds outstanding or to be issued for the construction of or additions to the sewerage system described in section 17-925.02.Source   Laws 1947, c. 43, § 2, p. 159;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 263.
NE Code § 17-925.04 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-925.04 - Sewers; rental charges; cumulative to service rate for maintenance and repair.

17-925.04.  Sewers; rental charges; cumulative to service rate for maintenance and repair.The charges permitted by sections 17-925.02 to 17-925.04 shall be in addition to the charges permitted by section 17-925.01 for the maintenance and repair of a sewer system.Source   Laws 1947, c. 43, § 3, p. 159;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 264.
NE Code § 17-926 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-926 - Cemetery; acquisition; condemnation; procedure.

17-926.  Cemetery; acquisition; condemnation; procedure.Any city of the second class or village through its mayor and city council or village board of trustees may, by eminent domain, condemn, purchase, hold, and pay for land not exceeding one hundred sixty acres outside the corporate limits of any city of the second class or village for the purpose of the burial of the dead. The mayor and city council or chairperson and village board of trustees are also empowered and authorized to receive by gift or devise real estate for cemetery purposes. In the event any city of the second class or village through its mayor and city council or chairperson and village board of trustees desires to purchase any cemetery belonging to any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, or individual, which cemetery has already been properly surveyed and platted, and is used for cemetery purposes, then the mayor and city council or chairperson and village board of trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase the cemetery. In the event the owner or owners of such cemetery desired to be purchased by any city of the second class or village will not or cannot sell and convey such cemetery to the city or village or in the event the owner or owners of such cemetery cannot agree upon the price to be paid for the cemetery, the mayor and city council or the village board of trustees shall by resolution declare the necessity for the acquisition of such cemetery by exercise of the power of eminent domain. The adoption of the resolution shall be deemed conclusive evidence of such necessity. The procedure to condemn property shall be exercised in the manner set forth in sections 76-704 to 76-724.Source   Laws 1929, c. 46, § 1, p. 195;   C.S.1929, § 17-541;   R.S.1943, § 17-926;   Laws 1951, c. 101, § 60, p. 474;   Laws 1963, c. 70, § 3, p. 273;   Laws 1993, LB 121, § 136;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 265.
NE Code § 17-933 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-933 - Cemetery; acquisition; title.

17-933.  Cemetery; acquisition; title.Where real estate for a cemetery under section 17-926 is acquired by gift or devise, the title shall vest in the city or village upon the conditions imposed by the donor and upon acceptance by the mayor and city council or chairperson and village board of trustees. Where such real estate is acquired by purchase or by virtue of exercise of the right of eminent domain, the title shall vest absolutely in such city or village. Nothing in sections 17-933 to 17-937 shall be construed in any manner to affect cemeteries belonging to any religious organization or society, lodge, or fraternal society.Source   Laws 1929, c. 46, § 8, p. 197;   C.S.1929, § 17-548;   R.S.1943, § 17-933;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 266.
NE Code § 17-934 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-934 - Cemetery; existing cemetery association; transfer to; conditions.

17-934.  Cemetery; existing cemetery association; transfer to; conditions.In any city of the second class or village in which there exists a duly perfected cemetery association as defined in section 12-501, if the cemetery association proposes to the mayor and city council or to the chairperson and village board of trustees by means of a resolution duly enacted by such cemetery association, signed by its president and attested by its secretary, signifying the willingness of the cemetery association to exercise control and management of any cemetery belonging to such city or village, then the mayor and city council or chairperson and village board of trustees shall submit at the next regular municipal election the question of the management and control over the cemetery under the conveyance made by the proper authorities of such city or village. If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of the transfer of the management and control of the cemetery belonging to such city or village to the cemetery association, the management and control of such cemetery shall be relinquished forthwith by the proper authorities of such city or village to the cemetery association. If the real estate of the cemetery of such city or village has been acquired by gift or devise, the relinquishment of the management and control to the cemetery association shall be subject to the conditions imposed by the donor; and upon acceptance by the president and secretary of the cemetery association, the conditions shall be binding upon the cemetery association.Source   Laws 1929, c. 46, § 8, p. 198;   C.S.1929, § 17-548;   R.S.1943, § 17-934;  Laws 2014, LB863, § 13;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 267.
NE Code § 17-935 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-935 - Existing cemetery association; transfer; deeds; how executed.

17-935.  Existing cemetery association; transfer; deeds; how executed.Subsequent to the relinquishment by the mayor and city council of a city of the second class or the chairperson and village board of trustees of a village to the proper officers of a cemetery association, as provided in section 17-934, the deeds to all burial lots executed by the trustees of such cemetery association, through its president and secretary, shall as a matter of course be signed, sealed, acknowledged, and delivered by the proper officers of such city or village as other real property of such city or village is conveyed, except that the transfer of such burial lots shall not require a vote of a majority of the electors of such city or village to make title to the same valid and legal in the purchaser or purchasers thereof.Source   Laws 1929, c. 46, § 8, p. 198;   C.S.1929, § 17-548;   R.S.1943, § 17-935;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 268.
NE Code § 17-936 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-936 - Existing cemetery association; transfer of funds.

17-936.  Existing cemetery association; transfer of funds.In case of the transfer of the management and control of a city cemetery or a village cemetery, as provided in sections 17-934 and 17-935, the cemetery board erected under section 12-401 shall have no jurisdiction over the management and control of such cemetery after the transfer. In the event of such transfer, any funds or any money to the credit of the cemetery fund or any perpetual fund created under section 12-402 shall be paid over by the city treasurer of such city or by the village treasurer of such village to the treasurer of the cemetery association; and all endowments contemplated under section 12-301 to such city cemetery or village cemetery shall vest absolutely in the cemetery association to whom the control and management of such cemetery shall have been transferred.Source   Laws 1929, c. 46, § 8, p. 199;   C.S.1929, § 17-548;   R.S.1943, § 17-936;   Laws 1959, c. 49, § 3, p. 239;  Laws 2009, LB500, § 3;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 269.
NE Code § 17-937 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-937 - Existing cemetery association; trustees; oath; bond; vacancy; how filled.

17-937.  Existing cemetery association; trustees; oath; bond; vacancy; how filled.In the case of the transfer of the management and control of a city cemetery or village cemetery as provided in sections 17-934 and 17-935, each of the trustees of the cemetery association shall qualify by subscribing to an oath in the office of the city clerk or village clerk, as the case may be, substantially as follows: That he or she will faithfully, impartially, and honestly perform his or her duties as such trustee. Whenever the trustees of any cemetery association organized under sections 17-926 to 17-939 shall receive the gift of any property, real or personal, in trust, for the perpetual care of such cemetery, or anything connected therewith, such trustees shall, upon the enactment of bylaws by the association to that effect, require the treasurer of such association to give a bond to such association in a sum equal to the amount of such trust fund and other personal property, conditioned for the faithful administration of such trust and for the care of such funds and property. Such bonds shall be approved by the mayor of the city or by the chairperson of the village board of trustees and shall remain on file with and in the custody of the city clerk or the village clerk. The premium on the bond of the treasurer shall be paid from available cemetery funds credited to or in the hands of such cemetery association. In the event of a vacancy occurring among the members of the board of trustees of such cemetery association, such vacancy shall be filled in the like manner as the original member of such board of trustees was elected in accordance with the provisions of section 12-501. Each trustee elected to fill such vacancy shall subscribe to the oath as provided in this section. Such appointment to fill such vacancy shall continue until the successor of such trustee shall be duly elected and qualified.Source   Laws 1929, c. 46, § 8, p. 199;   C.S.1929, § 17-548;   R.S.1943, § 17-937;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 270.
NE Code § 17-939 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-939 - Cemetery; acquisition; bonds; interest; approval of electors required.

17-939.  Cemetery; acquisition; bonds; interest; approval of electors required.The mayor and city council of any city of the second class or the village board of trustees of any village is hereby authorized to issue bonds in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of acquiring title by purchase or by virtue of eminent domain to land used for cemetery purposes and that may be acquired for any necessary addition to any existing cemetery. No such bonds shall be issued until the question of issuing the same shall be submitted to the electors of any such city or village at a general election thereof, or at a special election called for the purpose of submitting the proposition of issuing such bonds, and unless at such election a majority of the electors voting on the proposition shall have voted in favor of issuing such bonds. Such bonds shall be payable in not exceeding ten years from date and shall bear interest payable annually or semiannually. Notice of such election shall be given by publication in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the city or village for three successive weeks, the final publication to be not more than ten days prior to the date of such election. The election shall be governed by the Election Act.Source   Laws 1929, c. 46, § 10, p. 200;   C.S.1929, § 17-550;   R.S.1943, § 17-939;   Laws 1969, c. 51, § 56, p. 307;   Laws 1971, LB 534, § 17;   Laws 1996, LB 299, § 14;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 272.  >Cross References  Election Act, see section 32-101.
NE Code § 17-940 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-940 - Cemetery; improvement.

17-940.  Cemetery; improvement.The mayor and city council of a city of the second class or village board of trustees may survey, plat, map, grade, fence, ornament, and otherwise improve all burial and cemetery grounds and avenues leading to any cemetery owned by such city or village. Such city or village may construct walks and protect ornamental trees therein and provide for paying the expenses thereof.Source   Laws 1879, § 69, XXXIII, p. 218;   Laws 1881, c. 23, § 8, XXXIII, p. 186;   Laws 1885, c. 20, § 1, XXXIII, p. 177;   Laws 1887, c. 12, § 1, XXXIII, p. 305;   R.S.1913, § 5167;   C.S.1922, § 4354;   C.S.1929, § 17-552;   R.S.1943, § 17-940;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 273.
NE Code § 17-941 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 17 - Cities of the Second Class and Villages|17-941 - Cemetery; lots; conveyance.

17-941.  Cemetery; lots; conveyance.The mayor and city council of a city of the second class or village board of trustees may convey cemetery lots by certificate signed by the mayor or chairperson of the village board of trustees, and countersigned by the city clerk or village clerk, under the seal of the city or village, specifying that the person to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot or lots described therein by number as laid down on such map or plat, for the purpose of interment; and such certificate shall vest in the proprietor, his or her heirs and assigns, a right in fee simple to such lot for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulation of the city council or village board of trustees.Source   Laws 1879, § 69, XXXIV, p. 218;   Laws 1881, c. 23, § 8, XXXIV, p. 186;   Laws 1885, c. 20, § 1, XXXIV, p. 177;   Laws 1887, c. 12, § 1, XXXIV, p. 306;   R.S.1913, § 5168;   C.S.1922, § 4355;   C.S.1929, § 17-553;   R.S.1943, § 17-941;   Laws 1971, LB 32, § 4;  Laws 2015, LB241, § 3;  Laws 2017, LB133, § 274.