15-709 Streets; improvements; utility service connections; duty of landowner. - Nebraska Statutes

15-709. Streets; improvements; utility service connections; duty of landowner.The council may order the owner of lots abutting on a street to be paved, to lay sewer, gas, and water service pipes to connect mains; and if he neglects so to do, after five days' notice by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, or in place thereof by personal service of such notice, as the council in its discretion may direct, the council shall have power to cause the same to be laid, along with and as part of the work of the improvement district, and assess the cost thereof on the property of such owner, along with and in the manner as provided, for making the assessment to pay the cost of the pavement or improvements in the improvement district and to be collected and enforced as special taxes. SourceLaws 1901, c. 16, § 97, p. 106; Laws 1905, c. 16, § 9, p. 209; Laws 1913, c. 5, p 4, p. 61; R.S.1913, § 4524; Laws 1915, c. 82, § 1, p. 209; Laws 1917, c. 94, § 1, p. 250; C.S.1922, § 3910; C.S.1929, § 15-703; R.S.1943, § 15-709.