12-504. Petition for vacation of site or addition, street or alley, or for exclusion of land; notice; hearing.
12-504
12-504. Petition for vacation of site or addition, street or alley, or
for exclusion of land; notice; hearing.
Whenever the governing body of the city in which any of the following
are located or whenever the owner or owners of any townsite or part of a
townsite, or of any addition or part of an addition to any city, or the
governing body in which the following are located, or the owner or owners
of the lands adjoining on both sides of any street, alley or public
reservation such as, but not limited to public easements, dedicated building
setback lines, access control, or a part thereof, in any city or any addition
thereto, desires to have the same vacated, or desires to exclude
any farming lands or unplatted tracts, or
any addition or part of an addition to be vacated hereunder, from the
boundaries of the
city wherein situated, the governing body of such
city or the city planning commission shall give public notice of the same
by a publication in a newspaper of
general
circulation in the vicinity of such place sought to be vacated or excluded
or in the official city
newspaper in which is situated the place, tract or tracts, street, alley,
or public reservation sought to be vacated or excluded, if there
is any such newspaper published therein. Such notice shall be published at
least one time at least 20 days prior to the date of the hearing. Such
notice
shall state that a petition has been filed in the office of the city clerk
praying for such vacation or exclusion, or
both, describing the property fully, and that on a certain date after the
completion of such publication notice, naming the day on which
the petition will be presented to the governing body
of the city or the city planning commission for a hearing thereon, and that
at such time and place all
persons interested can appear and be heard under the
petition.
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.