14-360. Sewerage and drainage; regulations; creation of districts; powers of city; territory outside corporate limits.

The city shall have power to lay out the city, or parts thereof, or portions of the territory within three miles of the corporate limits thereof, into suitable districts for the purpose of establishing a system of sewerage and drainage; to provide such system and regulate the construction and repair and use of sewers and drains, the reconstruction of sewers in any district or part thereof and all proper house construction and branches; to provide penalties for any obstruction of, or injury to, any sewer or part thereof; and to require and compel sewer connections to be made; Provided, the city shall not create a district outside the corporate limits of such city, when the district includes land already included within an existing district created under the provisions of Chapter 31, article 7, without the consent of the trustees of such district.

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City has power to create a sewerage district and construct therein a sewerage system, but the exercise of such power is discretionary. Wilson v. City of Omaha, 138 Neb. 13, 291 N.W. 732 (1940).

City is authorized but is not required to construct storm sewers. Adams v. City of Omaha, 119 Neb. 753, 230 N.W. 680 (1930).

City may create new district within larger one and assess cost on abutting owners according to special benefits derived therefrom, and party seeking to enjoin collection of assessment must show injury by said division. Shannon v. City of Omaha, 73 Neb. 507, 103 N.W. 53 (1905), affirmed on rehearing 73 Neb. 514, 106 N.W. 592 (1906).

Unless finding of board shows that benefits are equal as to all lots within sewerage district, levy according to frontage is void. John v. Connell, 64 Neb. 233, 89 N.W. 806 (1902).

City cannot include property not specially benefited thereby in sewerage district and levy assessment on it for cost of sewer. Hanscom v. City of Omaha, 11 Neb. 37, 7 N.W. 739 (1881).