336 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-156 Joint city and school district facility; acquisition of land; erection, equipment, furnishings, and maintenance.
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Any school district in this state which has within its boundaries, or is contiguous to, a city of the second class may, together with such city, jointly acquire land for, erect, equip, furnish, maintain, and operate a joint municipal and recreation building or joint recreational …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-157 Joint city and school district facility; 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 municipal and recreation building or joint recreational and athletic field under section 17-156 shall be borne by the school district and city of the second class in the proportio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-158 Joint city and school district facility; indebtedness; bonds; principal and interest; in addition to other limitations.
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The amount of indebtedness, authorized to be incurred by any school district or city of the second class for the payment of principal and interest for the bonds authorized by the provisions of sections 17-156 to 17-162 shall be in addition to and over and above any limits under a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-159 Joint city and school district facility; city council and board of education; building commission; powers; duties.
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The members of the board of education of the school district and the city council of the city of the second class, which board and city council have agreed to build a joint municipal and recreation building or joint recreational and athletic field under sections 17-156 to 17-162,…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-160 Joint city and school district facility; 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 building or joint recreational and athletic field and may employ architects, engineers, and such clerical help as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of preparing such plans and…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-161 Joint city and school district facility; annual budget of city and school district.
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The school district and the city of the second class shall each provide in their annual budgets an item for their proportion of the expense of maintaining any joint municipal and recreation building or joint recreational and athletic field built pursuant to section 17-156.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-162 Joint city and school district facility; building commission; accept gifts.
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The building commission shall have the power to accept gifts, devises, and bequests of real and personal property to carry out the purposes of sections 17-156 to 17-162 and, to the extent of the powers conferred upon the building commission by sections 17-156 to 17-162, to execut…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-163 Offstreet parking; declaration of purpose.
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The Legislature finds and declares that the great increase in the number of motor vehicles, buses, and trucks in Nebraska has created hazards to life and property in cities of the second class in the state. In order to remove or reduce such hazards to life and property and the in…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-164 Offstreet parking; facilities; acquisition; procedure.
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Any city of the second class is hereby authorized to own, purchase, construct, equip, lease, or operate within such city offstreet motor vehicle parking facilities for the use of the general public. This does not include the power to engage, directly or indirectly, in the sale of…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-165 Offstreet parking; revenue bonds; issuance; terms.
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In order to pay the cost required by any purchase, construction, lease, or condemnation of property and equipping of parking facilities or the enlargement of presently owned parking facilities, a city of the second class may issue revenue bonds to provide the funds for such impro…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-166 Offstreet parking; plans and specifications; coordination with traffic control program.
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Before the issuance of any revenue bonds under section 17-165, the city of the second class shall have an independent and qualified firm of engineers prepare plans and specifications for such improvements. In the preparation of the plans and specifications, the independent engine…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-167 Offstreet parking; city council; rules and regulations; contracts; rates.
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Before the issuance of any revenue bonds as provided under section 17-165, the city council of a city of the second class shall make all necessary rules and regulations governing the use, operation, and control of such improvements. In carrying out sections 17-163 to 17-173, the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-168 Offstreet parking; acquisition of facilities; submission at election; notice.
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The mayor and city council of any city of the second class may adopt by ordinance the proposition to make such purchase, or to erect such facility or facilities, set forth in section 17-164, and before the purchase can be made or facility created, must submit the question to the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-169 Offstreet parking; facilities; lease; controls retained; business restricted.
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On the creation of a motor vehicle parking facility as provided under section 17-164 for the use of the general public, the city of the second class may lease such facility to one or more operators to provide for the efficient operation of the facility. Such lease shall be let on…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-170 Offstreet parking; private parking lot; not subject to eminent domain.
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Property now used or hereafter acquired within the boundaries of a city of the second class for offstreet motor vehicle parking by a private operator shall not be subject to condemnation.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-171 Offstreet parking; rights of bondholders.
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The provisions of sections 17-163 to 17-173 and of any ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds under sections 17-163 to 17-173 shall constitute a contract with the holders of such bonds, and any holder of a bond or bonds or any of the coupons of any bond or bonds of such city…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-172 Offstreet parking; revenue; use.
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Any city of the second class is authorized to use any or all of the revenue from onstreet parking meters for the purpose set forth in section 17-164 if such revenue has not been pledged for the payment of revenue bonds authorized in sections 17-163 to 17-173.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-173 Offstreet parking; supplementary powers.
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Sections 17-163 to 17-173 are supplementary to existing statutes relating to cities of the second class and confer upon such cities powers not heretofore granted.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-174 City of second class; public passenger transportation system; acquire; accept funds; administration; powers.
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A city of the second 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 railro…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-201 Village, defined; incorporation; restriction on territory; condition; village board of trustees.
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(1) Any municipality containing not less than one hundred nor more than eight hundred inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census incorporated as a village under the law…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-201.01 Villages; incorporation; presumption of regularity of proceedings.
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When a county board has entered an order declaring any village within the county as incorporated, it shall be conclusively presumed that such incorporation and all proceedings in connection therewith are valid in all respects notwithstanding some defect or defects that may appear…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-202 Board of trustees; election; terms.
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The corporate powers and duties of every village shall be vested in a board of trustees which shall consist of three or five members. At the first statewide general election held after the incorporation of a village with five members, two trustees shall be elected to serve two ye…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-202.01 Board of trustees; three or five members; procedure.
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(1) Pursuant to petitions filed or a vote of the village board of trustees under subsection (2) of this section, the registered voters in any village may vote at any statewide general election as to whether the village board of trustees shall consist of three or five members. Upo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-203 Board of trustees; qualifications.
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Any person may be a trustee who is a citizen of the United States, resides in the village, and is a registered voter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-204 Board of trustees; oath; meetings.
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Every village trustee, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Nebraska and faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of his or her office. Every village board of tr…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-205 Board of trustees; quorum; compulsory attendance.
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At all meetings of the village board of trustees, a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business. A smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as prescribed by the village…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-206 Board of trustees; journal; roll calls; public proceedings.
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The village board of trustees shall keep a journal of the board's proceedings and, at the desire of any member, shall cause the yeas and nays to be taken and entered on the journal on any question or ordinance, and the proceedings shall be public.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-207 Board of trustees; powers; restrictions.
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The village board of trustees shall have power to pass ordinances: (1) To prevent and remove nuisances within the village or within its extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction; (2) to restrain and prohibit gambling; (3) to provide for licensing and regulating theatrical and other am…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-207.01 Offstreet motor vehicle parking; acquisition; procedure.
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Any village is hereby authorized to own, purchase, construct, equip, lease, or operate within such village offstreet motor vehicle parking facilities for the use of the general public. This does not include the power to engage, directly or indirectly, in the sale of gasoline, oil…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-207.02 Offstreet motor vehicle parking; acquisition; board of trustees; powers.
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The powers granted by section 17-207.01 shall be exercised in the manner and be subject to all the terms, conditions, and limitations provided in sections 17-163 to 17-173.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-208 Appointive officers; term of office; police officer; removal, demotion, or suspension; procedure; board of health; members; duties.
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(1) The village board of trustees may appoint a village clerk, treasurer, attorney, engineer, overseer of the streets, and chief of police and other such officers as shall be required by ordinance or otherwise required by law. (2)(a) The village chief of police or any other polic…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-209 Appointed officers and employees; compensation; fixed by ordinance.
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The appointive officials and other employees of the village shall receive such compensation as the chairperson and village board of trustees shall designate by ordinance; and the annual salary of the chairperson and other members of the village board of trustees shall be fixed by…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-209.01 Board of trustees; powers of village clerk; resolution required; duties.
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(1) Annually at the first regular meeting of the village board of trustees in December, or as soon as reasonably possible thereafter, the board shall pass a resolution authorizing the village clerk to prepare claims and issue warrants for the village. The resolution shall specify…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-209.02 Officers and employees; combine or merge office, employment, or duties.
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(1)(a) The village board of trustees may, by ordinance, combine or merge any elective or appointive village office or village employment or any combination of duties of any such offices or employments, except that the office of village trustee shall not be combined or merged with…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-210 Board of trustees; ordinances; publication; chairperson pro tempore.
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The chairperson of the village board of trustees shall cause the ordinances of the village to be printed and published for the information of the inhabitants and cause such ordinances to be carried into effect. In the absence of the chairperson from any meeting of the village boa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-211 Elections; notice.
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The village clerk shall give public notice of the time and place of holding each village election, the notice to be given not less than ten nor more than twenty days previous to the election in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the village.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-212 Elections; officers of election; vacancies; how filled.
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If, on any day appointed for holding any village election, any of the judges or clerks of election shall fail to attend, the electors present may fill such vacancies from among the qualified electors present.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-213 Village chief of police; powers and duties.
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The village chief of police shall have power to make or order an arrest with proper process for any offense against the laws of the state or ordinances of the village and bring the offender to trial before the proper officer and to arrest without process in all cases where any su…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-213.01 Village engineer; powers and duties.
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(1) The village engineer, when ordered to do so by the village board of trustees, shall make surveys, estimates, and calculations necessary to be made for the establishment and maintenance of public works by the village. (2) The village board of trustees may, in lieu of appointin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-214 Village overseer of streets; power and duties.
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The village overseer of streets shall, subject to the order of the village board of trustees, have general charge, direction, and control of all works on streets, sidewalks, culverts, and bridges of the village and shall perform such other duties as the village board of trustees …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-215 Village; dissolution; how effected.
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Any village incorporated under the laws of this state shall abolish its incorporation whenever a majority of the registered voters of the village, voting on the question of such abolishment, shall so decide in the manner provided in sections 17-215 to 17-219.03.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-215.01 Village; dissolution; county, defined.
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For purposes of sections 17-215 to 17-219.03, when reference is made to the county within which the village is located and the village is located in more than one county, county means the county within which the greater portion of the area of the village is located.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-216 Village; dissolution; petition or resolution; election.
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(1) Whenever a petition for submission of the question of the abolishment of incorporation to the registered voters of any village, signed by not less than one-third of the registered voters of the village, is filed in the office of the county clerk or election commissioner of th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-217 Village; dissolution; election; form of ballot.
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The form of the ballot for the question of the abolishment of incorporation of a village shall be, respectively, For abolishment of incorporation, and Against abolishment of incorporation, and the same shall be printed upon a separate ballot and shall be counted and canvassed in …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-218 Village; dissolution; when effective.
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(1) If a majority of the registered voters of a village voting on the question vote in favor of the abolishment of the incorporation of a village, then, from and after the effective date of the abolishment of the incorporation as determined by the county board as provided in subs…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-219 Village; dissolution; village property, records, and funds; disposition.
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Upon the effective date of the abolishment of incorporation of a village, all property and records belonging to the village shall be transferred to the county board of the county in which the village is located. All funds of the village not otherwise disposed of shall be transfer…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-219.01 Village; dissolution; property; sale by county board; when authorized.
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Notwithstanding any more general law respecting revenue, the county board in any county in this state in which the incorporation of any village has been abolished according to law shall advertise and sell all corporate property of the village for which the county itself has no us…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-219.02 Village; dissolution; property; sale; notice.
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The county treasurer shall, before selling any property under section 17-219.01, give notice of the sale of such property in the same manner as notice is given when lands are sold under execution by the county sheriff, and the sale shall likewise be conducted in the same manner a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-219.03 Village; dissolution; board of trustees; county board; duties.
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(1) On and after the date of a vote by a majority of the registered voters of a village voting on the question in favor of the abolishment of the incorporation of a village, the village board of trustees shall not expend any funds of the village, liquidate any village assets, whe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-220 Village situated in more than one county; how organized.
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A majority of the inhabitants of any village situated in two or more counties may present a petition to the county board of any county in which any part of such village is situated, requesting that they may be incorporated as a village; and such county board shall act upon the pe…