Chapter 16, CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS
328 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-321 City engineer; public works; prepare estimate of cost; board of public works; powers; contracts; procedure; city council; powers and duties; public emergency.
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(1) The city engineer of a city of the first class shall, when requested by the mayor or city council, make estimates of the cost of labor and material which may be done or furnished by contract with the city and make all surveys, estimates, and calculations necessary to be made …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-321.01 Municipal bidding procedure; waiver; when.
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Any municipal bidding procedure may be waived by the city council or board of public works of a city of the first class (1) when materials or equipment are purchased at the same price and from the same seller as materials or equipment which have formerly been obtained pursuant to…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-322 Special engineer; when employed.
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The mayor and city council of a city of the first class may, whenever they deem it expedient, employ a special engineer to make or assist in making any particular estimate or survey, and any estimate or survey made by such special engineer shall have the same validity and serve i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-323 Chief of police; police officers; powers and duties.
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The chief of police of a city of the first class shall have the immediate superintendence of the police. He or she and the police officers shall have the power and the duty to arrest all offenders against the laws of the state or of the city, by day or by night, in the same manne…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-324 Street commissioner; duties.
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The street commissioner of a city of the first class shall be subject to the orders of the mayor and city council by resolution, have general charge, direction, and control of all work in the streets, sidewalks, culverts, and bridges of the city, except matters in charge of the b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-325 Board of public works; appointment; oath; terms; duties; removal from office.
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(1) There may be in each city of the first class a board of public works which shall consist of three members, each having a three-year term of office, or five members, each having a five-year term of office, the number to be set by ordinance, which members shall be residents of …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-326 Elective officers; compensation; change during term prohibited; exception.
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The salary of any elective officer of any city of the first class shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he or she was elected, except that when there are officers elected to the city council, or to a board or commission having more than one member and the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-327 Officers; reports required.
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The mayor or city council of a city of the first class shall have power, when he, she, or it deems it necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his or her accounts or other papers and make reports to the city council, in writing, touching any subject or matter it m…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-401 City council; meetings, regular and special; quorum.
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Regular meetings of the city council of a city of the first class shall be held at such times as may be fixed by ordinance and special meetings whenever called by the mayor or any four city council members. A majority of all the members elected to the city council shall constitut…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-402 City council; president; acting president; duties.
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The city council of a city of the first class shall elect one of the city council members as president of the city council, and he or she shall preside at all meetings of the city council in the absence of the mayor. In the absence of the president, the city council members shall…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-403 City council; ordinances; passage; proof; publication.
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All ordinances of a city of the first class shall be passed pursuant to such rules and regulations as the city council may provide, and all such ordinances may be proved by the certificate of the city clerk under the seal of the city. When printed or published in book, pamphlet, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-404 City council; ordinances, resolutions, or orders; procedure for passage; vote of mayor, when; amendments; revision ordinances.
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(1) All ordinances and resolutions or orders for the appropriation or payment of money in a city of the first class shall require for their passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of all elected members of the city council. The mayor may vote on any such matter if (a) t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-405 City council; ordinances; style; publication; emergency ordinances.
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The style of ordinances of a city of the first class shall be: "Be it ordained by the mayor and city council of the city of ................," and all ordinances of a general nature shall, within fifteen days after they are passed, be published in a legal newspaper in or of gener…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-406 City council; testimony; power to compel; oaths.
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The city council of a city of the first class or any committee of the members thereof shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses for the investigation of matters that may come before them. The president or acting president of the city council, or chairperson of such c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-501 Contracts; appropriation a condition precedent.
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No contract shall be made by the city council in a city of the first class or any committee or member thereof and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers or departments of the city, whether the object of the expenditure shall have been ordered by the city council or n…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-502 Officer; extra compensation prohibited; exception.
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No officer shall receive any pay or perquisites from a city of the first class other than his or her salary, as provided by ordinance and the law relating to cities of the first class, and the city council shall not pay or appropriate any money or any valuable thing to any person…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-503 Contracts; concurrence of majority of city council required; vote of mayor, when; record.
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On the passage or adoption of every resolution or order to enter into a contract, or accepting of work done under contract, by the mayor or city council of a city of the first class, the yeas and nays shall be called and entered upon the record. To pass or adopt any bylaw or ordi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100 Public buildings; construction; bonds authorized; approval of electors required, when.
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The mayor and city council of a city of the first class shall have the power to borrow money and pledge the property and credit of the city upon its negotiable bonds or otherwise for the purpose of acquiring, by purchasing or constructing, including site acquisition, or aiding in…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100.01 Joint city-county building; authorized; acquisition of land; erect; equip, furnish, maintain, and operate.
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Any county in this state may, together with any city of the first class of the county in which the county seat is located, jointly acquire land for, erect, equip, furnish, maintain, and operate a joint city-county building to be used jointly by such county and city.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100.02 Joint city-county building; expense; bonds; election; approval by electors.
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The cost and expense of acquiring land for, erecting, equipping, furnishing, and maintaining a joint city-county building shall be borne by such county and city in the proportion determined by the county board of the county and the city council of the city of the first class. The…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100.03 Joint city-county building; indebtedness; bonds; principal and interest; in addition to other limitations.
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The amount of indebtedness authorized to be incurred by any county or city of the first class for the payment of principal and interest for the bonds authorized by the provisions of sections 16-6,100.01 to 16-6,100.07 shall be in addition to and over and above any limits provided…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100.04 Joint city-county building; county board and city council; building commission; powers; duties.
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The members of the county board of the county and the city council of the city of the first class which agree to build a joint city-county building shall be the building commission to purchase the land for the building and to contract for the erection, equipment, and furnishings …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100.05 Joint city-county building; building commission; plans and specifications; personnel; compensation; contracts.
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The building commission shall cause to be prepared building plans and specifications for the joint city-county building, and may employ architects, engineers, draftsmen, and such clerical help as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of preparing such plans and specifications. …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100.06 Joint city-county building; annual budget of city and county.
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The county and the city of the first class shall each provide in their annual budgets an item for their proportion of the expense of maintaining such joint city-county building.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,100.07 Joint city-county building; building commission; accept gifts.
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The building commission shall have power to accept gifts, devises, and bequests of real and personal property to carry out the purposes of sections 16-6,100.01 to 16-6,100.07 and, to the extent of the powers conferred upon such board by the provisions of sections 16-6,100.01 to 1…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,101 Acquisition; revenue bonds; approval of electors required.
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Supplemental to any existing law on the subject and in lieu of the issuance of general obligation bonds, or the levying of taxes upon property, as by law provided, any city of the first class may construct, purchase, or otherwise acquire a waterworks plant or a water system, or a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,102 Districts; created.
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In addition to any other provision of state law, whenever the mayor and city council of any city of the first class shall deem it necessary and advisable to construct sanitary sewer mains or water mains, the mayor and city council may, by ordinance passed by not less than three-f…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,103 Districts; benefits; certification; connection fee.
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After sanitary sewer mains or water mains have been constructed in the districts as provided under section 16-6,102, the cost thereof shall be reported to the city council and the city council, sitting as a board of equalization, shall determine benefits to abutting property. The…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,104 Construction of sewer and water mains; cost; payment; connection fees; use.
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For the purpose of paying the cost of any sanitary sewer mains or water mains constructed in a connection district created under section 16-6,102, the mayor and city council may spend funds accumulated in any sanitary sewer or water department surplus funds of the city. The conne…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,105 Construction of sewer and water mains; cost; revenue bonds; issuance authorized.
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As an alternative to spending surplus funds as provided in section 16-6,104, or to pay for part of the construction of sanitary sewer mains or water mains, the mayor and city council may issue revenue bonds. Such revenue bonds shall not impose any general liability upon the city …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,106 Powers.
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Cities of the first class are hereby authorized and empowered to develop and implement and from time to time amend, change, and modify a general plan or program of flood and storm water control, drainage, and disposal for such city. If the plan or program requires works of improv…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,107 Costs; financing.
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For carrying out the purposes and powers set forth in section 16-6,106, including payment of the cost thereof, the city may: (1) Borrow money and issue its negotiable general obligation bonds upon such terms and conditions as the mayor and city council may determine, without a vo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,108 General obligation bonds; issuance; hearing.
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The powers granted by sections 16-6,106 to 16-6,109 may be exercised in whole or in part and from time to time as the city council may in its discretion determine but before general obligation bonds are issued for the purposes of sections 16-6,106 to 16-6,109, the city council sh…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,109 Sections; supplemental to other laws.
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The powers granted by sections 16-6,106 to 16-6,109 are independent of and in addition to all other grants of powers on the same or related subjects but may be exercised jointly with or supplemented by the powers granted by existing state law, including, but not limited to, secti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-6,110 Acquisition of system; acceptance of funds; administration; powers.
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A city of the first class shall have the power by ordinance to acquire, by the exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, lease, purchase, construct, own, maintain, and operate, or contract for the operation of public passenger transportation systems, excluding railroa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-605 Property; condemnation for streets; damages; how paid.
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Payment of damages assessed for the appropriation of private property for streets, alleys or boulevards in cities of the first class may be made out of the general or any other surplus fund.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-606 Property; condemnation for streets; assessments; levy; collection.
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The city council of a city of the first class may assess and levy the whole expense and damage incurred in the creation of any street, avenue, or alley upon the real property fronting upon the same and other property nearby that may be benefited thereby in proportions according t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-607 Property; condemnation for other public purposes; bonds; issuance; approval by electors.
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(1) Payment of damages assessed for the appropriation of private property for any of the purposes provided in section 19-709 but not provided for in section 16-606 may be made by the sale of the negotiable bonds of the city, and for that purpose the mayor and city council shall h…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-608 Property; condemnation; plat; filing.
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All cities of the first class upon condemning private property, shall cause to be recorded an accurate plat and a clear, definite description of the property so taken in the office of the register of deeds for the county within which such city is located, within sixty days after …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-609 Improvements; power of city council.
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The city council of a city of the first class shall have power to open, control, name, rename, extend, widen, narrow, vacate, grade, curb, gutter, park, and pave or otherwise to improve and control and keep in good repair and condition, in any manner it may deem proper, any stree…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-609.01 Land abutting street; industrial tract or school site; improvement; agreement.
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Whenever any street of any city of the first class is partly inside the city and partly outside the city, and the land outside the city abutting on such street is an industrial tract or a school site, or the property of the state or any political subdivision thereof, such street …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-610 Public ways; maintenance and repair.
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The mayor and city council of a city of the first class shall have the care, supervision and control of all public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares and commons, and shall cause the same to be kept open and in repair and free from nuisances.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-611 Vacation of street or alley; abutting property; how treated.
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(1) Upon the vacation of any street or alley by a city of the first class, the title to such property shall vest in the owners of the abutting property and become a part of such property, one-half on each side thereof, unless the city reserves title in the ordinance vacating such…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-613 Bridges; repair; duty of county; aid by city, when.
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All public bridges within a city of the first class, exceeding sixty feet in length, and the approaches thereto, over any stream crossing a county highway, shall be constructed and kept in repair by the county. When any city of the first class has constructed or repaired a bridge…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-614 House numbers.
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The mayor and city council of a city of the first class may provide for regulating and requiring the numbering of houses along public streets or avenues.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-615 Grade or change of grade; procedure; damages; how ascertained; special assessments.
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(1) The mayor and city council of a city of the first class may establish the grade of any street, avenue, or alley in the city or within a county industrial area as defined in section 13-1111 contiguous to such city. When the grade of any street, avenue, or alley has been establ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-617 Improvement districts; power to establish; purposes; special assessments.
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The mayor and city council of any city of the first class shall have power to construct and make improvements of any street, streets, alley, alleys, sidewalk, sidewalks, public way, public ways, other public spaces, or any part of any street, streets, alley, alleys, sidewalk, sid…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-617.01 Improvement, defined.
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As used in sections 16-617 to 16-649, improvement shall include, but shall not be limited to, paving, repaving, graveling, grading, curbing, guttering, and the construction and replacement of pedestrian walks, plazas, malls, landscaping, lighting systems, and permanent facilities…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-618 Improvement districts; property included; types of improvements.
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Any improvement district created pursuant to section 16-617 may include portions of different streets, alleys, sidewalks, public ways, or other public spaces or portions of each, which abut, intersect, or adjoin, and may include two or more types of improvements in a single distr…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-619 Improvement districts; creation; notice.
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For every improvement district within which any of the improvements are to be funded by a levy of special assessments on the property especially benefited, after the passage, approval, and publication of an ordinance creating such district, the city clerk shall publish notice of …