12-504.   Petition for vacation of site or addition, street or alley, orfor exclusion of land; notice; hearing.Whenever the governing body of the city in which any of the followingare located or whenever the owner or owners of any townsite or part of atownsite, or of any addition or part of an addition to any city, or thegoverning body in which the following are located, or the owner or ownersof the lands adjoining on both sides of any street, alley or publicreservation such as, but not limited to public easements, dedicated buildingsetback lines, access control, or a part thereof, in any city or any additionthereto, desires to have the same vacated, or desires to excludeany farming lands or unplatted tracts, orany addition or part of an addition to be vacated hereunder, from theboundaries of thecity wherein situated, the governing body of suchcity or the city planning commission shall give public notice of the sameby a publication in a newspaper ofgeneralcirculation in the vicinity of such place sought to be vacated or excludedor in the official citynewspaper in which is situated the place, tract or tracts, street, alley,or public reservation sought to be vacated or excluded, if thereis any such newspaper published therein. Such notice shall be published atleast one time at least 20 days prior to the date of the hearing. Suchnoticeshall state that a petition has been filed in the office of the city clerkpraying for such vacation or exclusion, orboth, describing the property fully, and that on a certain date after thecompletion of such publication notice, naming the day on whichthe petition will be presented to the governing bodyof the city or the city planning commission for a hearing thereon, and thatat such time and place allpersons interested can appear and be heard under thepetition.

      History:   R.S. 1923, § 12-504; L. 1963, ch. 72, § 1; L. 1967,ch. 82, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 65, § 3;L. 1997, ch. 147, § 1; May 1.