2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 17-529 — Watercourses; aqueducts; wells; regulation.

Section 17-529
Watercourses; aqueducts; wells; regulation.

Second-class cities and villages shall have power (1) to establish and alter the channel of watercourses, and to wall them and cover them over, (2) to establish and regulate wells, cisterns and windmills, aqueducts and reservoirs of water, (3) to provide for filling the same, and (4) to erect and maintain a dike or dikes as protection against flood or surface waters.

Source:

Laws 1879, § 69, XV, p. 214

Laws 1881, c. 23, § 8, XV, p. 176

Laws 1885, c. 20, § 1, XV, p. 167

Laws 1887, c. 12, § 1, XV, p. 295

Laws 1893, c. 8, § 1, p. 133

Laws 1903, c. 21, § 1, p. 250

Laws 1905, c. 30, § 1, p. 256

Laws 1907, c. 17, § 1, p. 126

R.S.1913, § 5119

Laws 1917, c. 103, § 1, p. 270

Laws 1919, c. 48, § 1, p. 136

Laws 1919, c. 52, § 1, p. 150

Laws 1919, c. 46, § 2, p. 131

C.S.1922, § 4292

Laws 1925, c. 41, § 1, p. 156

C.S.1929, § 17-441

Laws 1935, c. 34, § 1, p. 141

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 17-441

R.S.1943, § 17-529

Laws 1947, c. 35, § 1(1), p. 146

Annotations:

City was authorized to erect and maintain a dike as protection against flood or surface waters. Gruntorad v. Hughes Bros. Inc., 161 Neb. 358, 73 N.W.2d 700 (1955).

A village has the right, under police power, to control lateral of irrigation ditch through one of its streets. Thornton v. Kingrey, 100 Neb. 525, 160 N.W. 871 (1916), affirmed on rehearing, 101 Neb. 631, 164 N.W. 561 (1917).

Where a municipality fills a channel with earth and fails to provide a sufficient outlet for passage of natural flood waters, damaging property, it is liable therefore. McClure v. City of Broken Bow, 81 Neb. 384, 115 N.W. 1081 (1908).

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska