17-207.01 Offstreet motor vehicle parking; acquisition; procedure. - Nebraska Statutes

17-207.01. Offstreet motor vehicle parking; acquisition; procedure.Any village in Nebraska is hereby authorized to own, purchase, construct, equip, lease, or operate within such village offstreet motor vehicle parking facilities for the use of the general public. The grant of power herein does not include the power to engage, directly or indirectly, in the sale of gasoline, oil, or other merchandise or in the furnishing of any service other than that of parking motor vehicles as provided herein. Any village shall have the authority to acquire by grant, contract, purchase, or through the condemnation of property, as provided by law for such acquisition, all real or personal property, including a site or sites on which to construct said facilities, necessary or convenient in the carrying out of this grant of power; Provided, that before any village may commence a program to construct, purchase, or acquire by other means a proposed offstreet parking facility or facilities, notice shall be given, by publication once each week for not less than thirty days, inviting application for private ownership and operation of offstreet parking facilities. If no application or applications have been received or, if received, the same have been disapproved by the governing body of such village within ninety days from the first date of publication, then such village may proceed in the exercise of the powers herein granted. SourceLaws 1961, c. 50, § 1, p. 191.