17-520 Streets; improvement; intersections; property; assessment; Intersection Paving Bonds; warrants; interest; partial payments; final payments.
17-520. Streets; improvement; intersections; property; assessment; Intersection Paving Bonds; warrants; interest; partial payments; final payments.For all paving and improvements of the intersections and areas formed by the crossing of streets, avenues or alleys, and one-half of the streets adjacent to real estate owned by the United States, the State of Nebraska or the city or village, the assessment shall be made upon all of the taxable property of the city or village; and for the payment of such paving or improvements the mayor and council or the board of trustees are hereby authorized to issue paving bonds of the city or village, in such denominations as they deem proper to be called Intersection Paving Bonds payable in not to exceed fifteen years from the date of said bonds, and to bear interest payable annually or semiannually. Such bonds shall not be issued until the work is completed and then not in excess of the cost of said improvements. For the purpose of making partial payments as the work progresses in paving, repaving, macadamizing or graveling, curbing and guttering or improvements of streets, avenues, alleys or intersections and areas formed by the crossing of streets, avenues, or alleys, or one-half of the streets adjacent to real estate owned by the United States, the State of Nebraska or the city or village, warrants may be issued by the mayor and council, or the board of trustees, upon certificates of the engineer in charge showing the amount of the 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 thereof, and upon completion and acceptance of the work issue a final warrant for the balance of the amount due the contractor, which warrants shall be redeemed and paid upon the sale of bonds authorized by law. 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. Nothing herein shall be construed as authorizing the mayor and council or board of trustees to pave or gravel any intersections or areas formed by the crossing of streets, avenues or alleys, unless in connection with one or more blocks of street paving or graveling of which the paving or graveling of such intersection or area shall form a part. SourceLaws 1909, c. 22, § 1, p. 193; Laws 1911, c. 21, § 1, p. 141; R.S.1913, § 5110; Laws 1915, c. 92, § 1, p. 234; Laws 1917, c. 102, § 1, p. 269; Laws 1919, c. 50, § 1, p. 146; C.S.1922, § 4283; Laws 1923, c. 135, § 1, p. 333; Laws 1927, c. 42, § 1, p. 180; C.S.1929, § 17-432; Laws 1933, c. 136, § 20, p. 533; C.S.Supp.,1941, § 17-432; R.S.1943, § 17-520; Laws 1965, c. 65, § 2, p. 284; Laws 1969, c. 51, § 45, p. 299; Laws 1975, LB 112, § 2. AnnotationsStatutory language includes "T" intersections. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. City of Seward, 166 Neb. 123, 88 N.W.2d 175 (1958).