Nebraska Revised Statutes

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-401 (2026)

Public utility districts; creation authorized; extension or enlargement of service; limitation

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In all cities, villages, or metropolitan utilities districts owning or operating a waterworks system, sanitary sewerage system, storm sewer system, gas plant, or other public utility plant and in which water, gas, or other public utility is supplied by municipal authority for domestic, mechanical, public, or other purposes, or sewage and storm water disposal, or other services furnished, the authorities having general charge, supervision, and control of all matters pertaining to the water, gas, or other public utility supplied by any city, village, or metropolitan utilities district, or the furnishing of any public service such as sewage and storm water disposal, shall have the power and authority to create a water main district, gas main district, sanitary sewer district, storm water disposal district, or other public utility district, as the case may be, either within or without the corporate limits of the city, village, or metropolitan utilities district involved, and to order and cause to be made extensions or enlargements of water mains, sanitary sewers, storm water disposal mains, gas mains, or other public utility service through such public utility district, except that nothing contained in this section shall be construed as authorizing the creation of any such public utility district outside of the corporate limits of a city of the primary class.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1975–1993 · leading case: First Assembly of God Church v. City of Scottsbluff, 279 N.W.2d 126 (Neb. 1979).

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First Assembly of God Church v. City of Scottsbluff, 279 N.W.2d 126 (Neb. 1979). · cites it 14× “2164” on one or more of the following grounds: (a) No proper notice was given as required by section 18-401 et seq., R. R. S. 1943; (b) no proper notice was given, as required by statute, for ordinance No.”

Matzke v. City of Seward, 226 N.W.2d 340 (Neb. 1975). · cites it 4× “” Sections 18-401 to 18-411, R. R. S. 1943, were enacted in 1921.”

Purdy v. City of York, 500 N.W.2d 841 (Neb. 1993). · cites it 4× “Notice of the district must then be published, and after such publication, affected property owners have 30 days to file *597 a written protest.”

North Platte, Nebraska Hosp. Corp v. City of North Platte, 440 N.W.2d 485 (Neb. 1989). · cites it 2× “At the request of Centennial, under the authority of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-401 (Reissue 1987), the City of North Platte created by ordinances sewer extension district No.”

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