Chapter 14, CITIES OF THE METROPOLITAN CLASS
414 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2145 Utilities district; annual audit; filing.
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In each metropolitan utilities district in the State of Nebraska, the board of directors shall cause the accounts of the district to be examined and audited annually. Such examination shall show (1) the gross income from all sources of the district for the previous year, (2) the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2146 Utilities district; annual audit; information; access.
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The Auditor of Public Accounts and the person making the examination and audit pursuant to section 14-2145 shall have access to all books, records, vouchers, papers, contracts, or other data containing information on the subject in the office of the board of such metropolitan uti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2147 Utilities district; annual audit; reports; filing; expenses.
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Upon the completion of such examination and audit, the person making the same shall file and furnish to the village or city clerk of each village or city within the district one copy of his or her report. Another copy shall be furnished to the county board of the counties in whic…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2148 Utilities district; entry upon private property; when authorized.
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Whenever it may be deemed necessary, the board of directors of the metropolitan utilities district or its employees shall have the authority, in the discharge of their duties, to enter upon any lands or premises for the examination or survey thereof, for the purpose of repairing …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2149 Prohibited acts; penalty.
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Any person who willfully interferes with or obstructs any employee of the metropolitan utilities district in the discharge of his or her duties, who willfully tampers with or injures such water or natural gas facilities or the pipes, apparatus, or any service connected therewith,…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-215 City council; powers; offices, boards, employment; officers and employees; salaries.
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The city council of a city of the metropolitan class shall have power to: (1) Create any office or board deemed necessary; (2) Discontinue any employment or abolish any office at any time when, in the judgment of the city council, such employment or office is no longer necessary;…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2150 Surplus property; sale proceeds; disposition.
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Whenever any of the property of a utility under the control of a metropolitan utilities district, whether real property or personal property, is no longer required for the operation of such utility, the district may sell and convey such surplus property, whether the property was …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2151 Utilities district; bonds; when not required.
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No bond for costs, appeal, supersedeas, injunction, or attachment shall be required of any metropolitan utilities district or of any officer, board, head of any department, agent, or employee of any such district in any proceeding or court action in which the metropolitan utiliti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2152 Utilities district; elections; procedure.
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The elections provided for in sections 14-2102, 14-2120, 14-2142, and 14-2157 shall be held according to the Election Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2153 Utilities district; restriction on sale of equipment or appliances.
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A metropolitan utilities district shall not sell any gas-burning equipment or appliances, at either retail or wholesale, if the retail price of that item exceeds fifty dollars, except that newly developed gas-burning appliances may be merchandised and sold during the period of ti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2154 Utilities district; energy conservation or weatherization programs; establish; powers.
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A metropolitan utilities district may establish energy conservation or weatherization programs that will encourage and promote the efficient use of energy supplies. A metropolitan utilities district may enter into agreements with companies, service organizations, municipalities, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2155 Utilities district; public offstreet motor vehicle parking facilities; location.
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A metropolitan utilities district is hereby authorized to own, purchase, construct, equip, and operate public offstreet motor vehicle parking facilities on property owned or leased by such district within the area designated as the civic center by the city council in the master p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2156 Utilities district; public offstreet motor vehicle parking facilities; bonds; powers.
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A metropolitan utilities district shall have authority to issue bonds and evidences of indebtedness for the purposes of acquiring, purchasing, constructing, and equipping such parking facilities as provided in section 14-2142 for other public utilities under its control and may m…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-2157 Utilities district; termination; petition; election.
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The existence of a metropolitan utilities district may be terminated by the people of the district in the following manner: Upon the filing of a petition with the board of directors signed by fifteen percent of the registered voters of the district at least thirty days prior to t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-216 City council; meetings; quorum; majority vote; veto; override.
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The regular meetings of the city council of a city of the metropolitan class shall be held once each week upon such day and hour as the city council may designate. Special meetings of the city council may be called from time to time by the mayor or three city council members, giv…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-217.01 Mayor; election; term.
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Each city of the metropolitan class shall elect a mayor as provided in section 32-536 whose term of office shall coincide with the terms of city council members elected concurrently to the city council.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-217.02 Mayor or city council members; vacancy; how filled; salaries; procedure.
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(1) Vacancies in the office of mayor or city council in a city of the metropolitan class shall be filled as provided in section 32-568. (2)(a) Salaries of the mayor and members of the city council shall be determined by ordinance subject to the requirements in this section. Excep…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-218 Mayor; general powers and duties.
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The mayor of a city of the metropolitan class shall, in a general way, constantly investigate all public affairs concerning the interest of the city, and shall investigate and ascertain in a general way the efficiency and manner in which all departments of the city government are…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-219 Mayor; executive powers; jurisdiction within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction.
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The mayor of a city of the metropolitan class shall be the chief executive officer and conservator of the peace throughout the city. The mayor shall have such jurisdiction as may be vested in such office by ordinance over all places within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-220 Mayor; executive, administrative powers; absence from city; notice.
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The mayor of a city of the metropolitan class shall have the superintending control of all officers and affairs of the city except when otherwise provided by law. The mayor may, when deemed necessary, require any officer of the city to exhibit such officer's accounts or any other…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-221 Mayor; law, ordinances; duty to enforce; cooperation with county sheriff.
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It shall be the duty of the mayor of a city of the metropolitan class to: (1) Enforce the laws of the state and the ordinances of the city; (2) Order, direct, and enforce, through the officers of the police department, the arrest and prosecution of persons violating such laws and…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-224 City council, officers, employees; receipt or solicitation of gifts; violations; penalty.
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The mayor and city council members and all other officers, agents, and employees of a city of the metropolitan class are prohibited from soliciting or receiving, directly or indirectly, for any purpose whatsoever, any contribution of money or supplies of whatsoever kind, or any v…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-225 City council, officers, employees; solicitation of political support; persons, corporations furnishing same; violations; penalties.
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No officer or agent of a city of the metropolitan class shall solicit, directly or indirectly, the political support of any contractor, municipal franchised corporation, or railway company, or the officials or agents of such companies, for any municipal election or for any other …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-226 City council, officers, employees; extortion; soliciting bribe; violations; penalty.
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(1) An officer or agent of a city of the metropolitan class shall not: (a) Make a demand for money or other consideration of a franchised corporation or public contractor, or such corporation's or contractor's agents, with a threat to introduce or support a measure, or vote for o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-227 Fines, penalties, and forfeitures; collection; duty to pay to city treasurer; violation; penalty; duty of comptroller to audit.
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(1) Unless otherwise provided by law, when an officer or agent of a city of the metropolitan class collects a fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed for a violation of city ordinance or for a misdemeanor violation of state law committed within the city, such officer or agent shall …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-228 Officers; reports at expiration of term; requirements.
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It shall be the duty of all officers of a city of the metropolitan class at the expiration of their terms of office to prepare written detailed abstracts of all books, documents, tools, implements, and materials of every kind belonging to the city in their trust and care, and to …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-229 Officers, employees; exercise of political influence; violations; penalty.
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Any officer or employee of a city of the metropolitan class who, by solicitation or otherwise, shall influence directly or indirectly any other officers or employees of such city to adopt such person's political views shall be guilty of a Class IIIA misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-230 City council; mayor; candidate; public officeholder not disqualified from candidacy.
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The Legislature, recognizing the importance to the entire State of Nebraska of sound and stable government in cities of the metropolitan class, hereby declares that the qualifications for candidacy for the office of mayor and city council member of such cities, whether any such c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,100 Streets; grade; committee; appraisal and report of damages; special assessments; appraisers; fees; damages; award.
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After the grade of any street or alley shall be finally changed or the grading of such street or alley finally ordered as provided in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127 and before any assessments are levied, a committee of at least three disinterested residents of the city shall be appo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,101 Streets; grade; award of damages; when payable; appeal.
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Whenever an award of damages for a change in grade or grading has been finally approved such damages may be assessed to the extent of the special benefits conferred by the improvement against the lots and parcels of land abutting upon or in the vicinity of the improvements made. …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,102 Streets; improvements; notice; service; protest; effect; special assessment.
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Whenever it is desired to make any improvement or improvements authorized in section 14-385, where the costs of such improvement or improvements are to be assessed against the adjacent and abutting property benefited by such improvement or improvements, and no petition has been f…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,103 Sidewalks; construction or repair; required, when; assessment of cost; equalization.
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A city may construct or repair sidewalks along any street or part thereof, or any boulevard or part thereof, of such material and in such manner as the city deems necessary and assess the cost of such construction or repair upon abutting property. Such assessments except for temp…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,104 Temporary sidewalks; when.
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Where the grade of any street or part of a street has not been established or where a street has not been worked or filled to the established grade or where the street has been graded but does not conform to the established grade the owner of any lots or lands abutting on such st…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,105 Sidewalks; construction or repair; notice; service.
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Before any sidewalk shall be constructed or repaired by the city as provided in section 14-3,103, the owner or owners of the lots or lands to be assessed shall be given notice to construct or repair such sidewalk and shall have twenty days after the giving of such notice within w…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,106 Sidewalks; construction or repair; special assessment; failure of owner; effect.
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In case the owner or owners shall fail to construct or repair a sidewalk as provided in section 14-3,105, the city may construct or repair such sidewalk or cause such work to be done and assess the cost of such work upon the abutting property as a special assessment. Where the ow…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,107 Streets; vacation; narrow; reversion to abutting owners; improvements; assessment of benefits; vacation of minimal secondary right-of-way; procedure.
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(1)(a) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a city may: (i) Vacate or narrow any street, highway, main thoroughfare, controlled-access facility, connecting link, boulevard, major traffic street, or alley upon petition of the owners of seventy-five percent of the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,108 Streets; improvements; control of work; regulations.
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A city shall have the right to control and direct all work upon the public streets. The city may adopt any and all reasonable regulations relating to excavations in the streets or public grounds by any and all parties, including waterworks, gas, and other franchised corporations …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,109 Streets; public utilities; connections; power of city to compel; cost.
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A city shall have the power to compel any water company, gas company, or other person, corporation, or firm owning or controlling any pipe or other underground conduits or other appliances usually installed under the surface of the streets, to provide for and construct all connec…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,110 Public property; abutting streets; not subject to special assessment; cost, how paid.
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Property of the United States Government at the time devoted to governmental uses, property of the State of Nebraska, any county, or the city, abutting upon and adjacent to the streets or parts of streets being improved or included within any improvement district authorized in se…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,111 Streets and sidewalks; contract for improvements; bids; advertisement.
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No contract for any of the improvements provided by sections 14-384 to 14-3,127 shall be let unless first the city shall have made a detailed estimate of the costs of the contemplated improvement, nor shall any such contract be let until after the city has advertised for and rece…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,112 Sections, how construed.
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Nothing in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127 shall be construed as in any way abridging, modifying, or limiting the authority or right granted to and now possessed by any city as provided by law to improve any road, highway, or boulevard leading into such city for a distance not to exc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,113 Intersections, certain lands; improvement by city; priority on use of funds; street improvement districts.
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(1) A city is authorized to improve intersections, spaces opposite alleys, and spaces opposite property not subject to special assessment, with the like material in the manner provided in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127 for improving streets whenever a street, highway, boulevard, mai…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,114 Petitions; forms; contents; signatures.
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All petitions for improvements provided for in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127 shall be upon printed forms prescribed by the city and shall describe the street to be improved and improvement desired. Signatures to such petitions shall have no conditions attached and all signatures sh…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,115 Improvement districts; estimate of cost; bids; advertisement.
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A city shall, when it creates an improvement district for paving, repaving, curbing, or guttering, or other improvements of like character, prepare an estimate of the cost of such improvement and shall thereafter advertise for and receive bids upon such material as may be designa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,116 Materials; petition to designate; forms.
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All petitions for the purpose of designating material as provided in section 14-3,115 shall be on printed forms furnished by the city upon application and shall contain such information and shall be worded in such language as the city may from time to time direct.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,117 Improvements; petition; recording.
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Whenever a petition for an improvement is filed with a city, the hour, day, month, and year when such petition is filed shall be officially marked upon such petition and such petition shall be recorded in such manner as the city may from time to time provide.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,118 Improvements; petitions; restrictions.
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Petitions for improvements provided for in sections 14-384 to 14-3,127 after having been filed with the city shall not be returned or withdrawn, nor shall any person be allowed to add, cancel, erase, or withdraw or in any way modify any signature or writing on such petitions. Whe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,119 Improvements; petitions; examination; certification; notice of irregularity, illegality, or insufficiency; publication; supplemental petitions.
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Petitions for improvements provided for under sections 14-384 to 14-3,127 shall be examined and certified for sufficiency as the city may provide. Certificates as to sufficiency when properly filed as provided by the city shall be prima facie evidence of the truth and correctness…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,120 Improvements; petition; publication; notice to file protest.
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If the certificates required by section 14-3,119 show that the petition is regular, legal, and sufficient the city shall cause a copy of the petition to be published for three days in the official newspaper of the city with a notice directing the property owners generally in the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-3,121 Improvements; petition; protest; procedure; supplemental petition; hearing; appeal.
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(1) The property owners in any improvement district shall have thirty days from the first day of publication of the petition and notice as provided in section 14-3,120 to file with the city a protest against the regularity, legality, or sufficiency of the petition or any signatur…