19-1202.

City or village; application; approval; conditions.

The Department of Environment and Energy shall award a grant to a city or village under the Revitalize Rural Nebraska Grant Program based on a completed application that demonstrates:

(1) A dilapidated commercial property within the corporate limits of the city or village is in need of demolition;

(2) The city or village owns the property or is completing the process prescribed in section 18-1722;

(3) The property has been abandoned or vacant for at least six months prior to application;

(4) The property is not listed, or eligible to be listed, on the National Register of Historic Places; and

(5) The city or village is able to contribute matching funds, whether in cash or in-kind donations, in the amount of ten percent for a village, fifteen percent for a city of the second class, and twenty percent for a city of the first class.