568 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1001 Public policy; sites; acquisition; conveyance to state; construction of buildings.
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The Legislature hereby declares the public policy of the State of Nebraska to be that the acquisition of real estate sites for the construction of state armories within the corporate limits of cities or villages for the uses and purposes of the Nebraska National Guard and State G…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1002 Site; purchase; payment.
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Whenever the Nebraska National Guard and State Guard desire any city or village in this state to acquire at the cost of not to exceed ten thousand dollars to such city or village by condemnation, or otherwise, any lot, piece, or parcel of land within the corporate limits of such …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1003 Site; condemnation; payment.
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If the owner or owners and the committee cannot agree on the price, value, or title of land as provided in section 18-1002, within a period of negotiation extending not more than ten days from the date of appointment of the committee by the governing body, the committee shall rep…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1004 Armory site; conveyances.
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Notwithstanding any more general or special law respecting sale or conveyance of real estate now or hereafter owned by cities and villages in force and effect in this state, the governing bodies of cities and villages are empowered to direct their proper officers to execute deeds…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1005 Tax levy; state armory site fund; use.
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All cities or villages in the State of Nebraska shall have the power and authority to levy a special tax each year of not more than five and two-tenths cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of all the taxable property in such city or village for the acquisition…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1006 Warrants; issuance; amount; fund; purpose.
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Any city or village may anticipate the collection of a special tax collected as provided in section 18-1005 to be budgeted and levied in its adopted budget statement and for that purpose may issue its warrants, in a sum amounting to eighty-five percent of the tax to be levied, as…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1101 Refunding outstanding instruments; powers.
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The mayor and city council of any city or the chairperson and village board of trustees of any village of the State of Nebraska, which has issued valid pledge warrants, revenue bonds, revenue notes, or revenue debentures, which instruments are outstanding and unpaid, may take up …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1102 Refunding instruments; how issued.
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Whenever it is desired to issue pledge warrants, revenue bonds, or revenue debentures under section 18-1101, the city council or village board of trustees shall, by resolution recorded in the minutes of its proceedings, provide for the issuance and sale or exchange of the refundi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1201 Tax; amount; purposes.
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All cities and villages in the State of Nebraska may levy a special tax each year of not more than five cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of all the taxable property in such city or village for the special purposes set forth in this section. Such special le…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1202 Tax anticipation bonds; issuance; interest; redemption.
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Any city or village which has levied or intends to levy a tax as authorized by section 18-1201 for the purposes stated in such section may anticipate the collection of such taxes, including the anticipation of collections from levies to be made in future years, and for such purpo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1203 Musical and amusement organizations; tax; amount; petition for higher tax; election.
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All cities and villages within the State of Nebraska are hereby expressly authorized, upon a three-fourths vote of all of the members elected to the city council or village board of trustees, to levy not to exceed two and one-tenth cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxab…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1204 Musical and amusement organizations; power to tax; withdrawal; reauthorization.
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When a petition signed by ten percent of the legal voters of a city or village, as shown by the last regular municipal election, is filed with the city clerk or village clerk requesting that the question be submitted to the voters of withdrawing the authority to tax under section…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1205 Musical and amusement organizations; tax; inclusion in appropriation ordinance.
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When a city or village has voted as required by section 18-1203 to establish and maintain a vocal, instrumental, or amusement organization, there shall thereafter be included in the annual estimate of expenses of such city or village a levy of not to exceed two and one-tenth cent…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1206 Musical and amusement organizations; leader; employment.
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Every vocal, instrumental, or amusement organization established under sections 18-1201 to 18-1207 shall be under the instruction and guidance of a leader, who may be nominated in the first instance by the organization or association but whose nomination, term of employment, and …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1207 Musical and amusement organizations; rules and regulations.
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The city council of each city, or village board of trustees of each village, making provision for any vocal, instrumental, or amusement organization as provided in sections 18-1201 to 18-1207, shall make and adopt all suitable and necessary rules, regulations, and bylaws concerni…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1208 Occupation tax; imposition or increase; annual report; contents.
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No later than ninety days after the end of the fiscal year, each municipality that imposes a new occupation tax or increases the rate of an existing occupation tax on or after June 5, 2025, shall provide an annual report on the collection and use of such occupation tax. The repor…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1214 Motor vehicles; annual motor vehicle fee; use.
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(1)(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section, the governing body of any city or village shall have power to require any individual whose primary residence or person who owns a place of business which is within the limits of the city or village and that ow…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1215 Special assessment district; ordinance; file copy with register of deeds.
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Whenever a municipality has enacted an ordinance creating a special assessment district, it shall be the duty of such municipality to file a copy of such ordinance in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such municipality is located.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1216 Collection of special assessments; powers; notice; liability.
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(1) Any municipality shall have authority to collect the special assessments which it levies and to perform all other necessary functions related thereto including foreclosure. The governing body of any municipality collecting its own special assessments shall direct that notice …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1221 Pension or retirement system; tax; amount; use.
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Subject to the levy limitations contained in section 77-3442, but notwithstanding any limitations in any other law or city home rule charter, any city or village of this state which provides a pension or retirement system for all or a portion of its employees shall levy a tax in …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-131 Publication.
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Ordinances passed by cities of all classes and villages must be posted, published in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the respective cities or villages, or published in book, pamphlet, or electronic form, as required by their respective charters or general laws.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-132 Adoption of standard codes.
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(1) The city council of any city or board of trustees of any village may adopt by ordinance the conditions, provisions, limitations, and terms of a plumbing code, an electrical code, a fire prevention code, a building or construction code, and any other standard code which contai…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1501 Acquisition; buildings; improvements; authorized; charges.
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Any city or village in the State of Nebraska is authorized to acquire by lease for a term not to exceed twenty-five years, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the necessary land within or without such city or village for the purpose of establishing an aviation field and to erec…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1502 Bonds; terms; interest; approval by electors.
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For the purpose of acquiring and improving an aviation field as authorized in section 18-1501, any city or village may issue and sell bonds of such city or village to be designated aviation field bonds to provide the necessary funds for such aviation field in an amount not to exc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1503 Tax in lieu of bonds; amount; approval by electors; limitations.
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For the purpose of acquiring and improving an aviation field as provided in section 18-1501, a city or village may, in lieu of issuing and selling bonds, levy an annual tax of not to exceed seven cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of all the taxable property…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1504 Acquisition by lease; election unnecessary.
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It shall not be necessary, in order for a city or village to acquire the necessary land for an aviation field by lease, to submit the proposition of such acquisition by lease to the legal voters of such city or village.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1505 Construction, leasing, improvement, maintenance, and management; annual tax; election not required.
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For the purpose of the construction, leasing, improvement, maintenance, and management of an aviation field and for the payment of persons employed in the performance of labor in connection therewith, any city or village may, without a vote of the legal electors, levy an annual t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1507 Site; federal and state specifications.
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No airport or land intended for airport purposes shall be acquired by any city or village through the issue and sale of bonds, or the levy of taxes, unless the site, when developed and ready for public use, meets federal and state specifications for an airport open to the public.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1508 Ordinances, rules, and regulations; authorized; applicability.
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The governing body of any city or village shall have power to make and enforce such ordinances, rules, and regulations as shall lawfully be made, for the control and supervision of any airport, landing field, or airdrome acquired, established, or operated by such city or village,…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1509 Lease or disposition; when authorized.
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The governing body of any city or village, authorized by section 18-1501 to acquire an aviation field, shall have power to lease or dispose of such aviation field or any portion thereof when doing so will not damage the public need for such airfield.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1701 Public records; disposition and destruction.
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All cities and villages may provide for the disposition or destruction of public records when such records have been determined to be of no further legal, administrative, fiscal, or historical value by the State Records Administrator pursuant to the Records Management Act. This s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1702 Trainees; Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center; costs and expenses.
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Any city or village in the State of Nebraska may pay from municipal funds the cost of training and the expenses of trainees, designated by its governing body, to attend the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1705 Road or street improvement; avoidance of menace to travel; additional land; acquisition by purchase, gift, or eminent domain.
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Whenever any city or village shall need any additional land for the purpose of avoiding a menace to travel by caving, sliding, washing, or otherwise or for the purpose of improving, maintaining, or changing any road, street, alley, or other public highway, such city or village ma…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1706 Fire, police, and emergency service; provision outside limits of city or village.
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Any city or village may by resolution authorize its fire department or police department or any portion thereof to provide fire, police, and emergency service outside of the limits of such city or village either within or without the state.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1707 Services, vehicles, and equipment; authority to contract for; requirements.
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Any city or village shall have the authority to contract with other political subdivisions, government agencies, public corporations, private persons, or groups for (1) compensation for services rendered by such city or village or (2) the use of vehicles and equipment of the city…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1708 City or village employees; serving outside corporate limits; regular line of duty.
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All city or village employees serving outside the corporate limits of the city or village as authorized in sections 18-1706 to 18-1709 shall be considered and held as serving in their regular line of duties as fully as if they were serving within the corporate limits of the city …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1709 Fire protection; fire apparatus; emergency vehicles; contracts authorized.
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Any city or village of this state may make arrangements and contracts with any other city or village for the purpose of fire protection and for the use of fire apparatus and emergency vehicles and equipment.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1712 Fire training school; costs and expenses.
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Any city or village in the State of Nebraska may pay from city or village funds the cost of training and the expenses of such members of the city or village fire department as designated by the governing body of the city or village to attend the fire training school sponsored by …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1713 Fire training school; contract with city fire department; costs and expenses.
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Any city or village in the State of Nebraska may enter into a contract with a fire department of any city of the metropolitan class or city of the primary class that maintains a fire training school for its own firefighters to train such firefighters as such city or village might…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1714 Fire training school; approved by State Fire Marshal and Nebraska Emergency Management Agency; attendance.
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Any city or village in the State of Nebraska may send any person or persons designated by its governing body to attend any fire training school operating within the State of Nebraska and that has been approved as a proper fire department training school for such purposes by the S…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1715 Airport; park; waterworks system; sewerage system; outside corporate limits; police jurisdiction.
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Any municipality in Nebraska owning, controlling, or operating an airport, park, waterworks system, sewerage system, or any portion of the same, or any other municipal facility, outside the corporate limits of such municipality, may exercise police jurisdiction over the same, and…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1716 Suburban regulations; exceptions.
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Any regulation of any municipality pertaining to any area outside of its corporate limits shall be subject to any lawful and existing regulation of another municipality pertaining to that same area except as otherwise provided by an agreement entered into pursuant to the Interloc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1716.01 Annexation; property contiguous to or abutting county road; effect.
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Any city or village annexing property contiguous to or abutting upon any part of a county road shall be deemed to have annexed, without further action, all of the contiguous or abutting road at the time of such annexation, except that this section shall not apply to county roads …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1718 Annexation; contest; limitation of action.
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Any action or proceeding of any kind or nature, whether legal or equitable, which is brought to contest any annexation of property made by any city or village, shall be brought within one year from the effective date of such annexation or such action or proceeding shall be foreve…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1719 Weeds; destruction and removal within right-of-way of railroads; powers; special assessment.
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Any city or village may provide for the destruction and removal of specified portions of weeds and worthless vegetation within the right-of-way of all railroads within the corporate limits of such city or village and may require the owner or owners of such right-of-way to destroy…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1720 Nuisances; definition; prevention; abatement; joint and cooperative action with county.
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(1) All cities and villages in this state may by ordinance define, regulate, suppress, and prevent nuisances, declare what constitutes a nuisance, and abate and remove such nuisances. Every city and village may exercise such power and authority within its corporate limits and ext…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1721 Comprehensive zoning ordinance; requirements for street dedication.
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In order to lessen congestion on the streets and to facilitate adequate provisions for community utilities and facilities such as transportation, any city or village which has a comprehensive zoning ordinance is authorized to require that no building or structure shall be erected…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1722 Buildings; repair, rehabilitate, or demolish; remove; cost; special assessment; civil action.
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If any owner of any building or structure fails, neglects, or refuses to comply with notice by or on behalf of any city or village to repair, rehabilitate, or demolish and remove a building or structure which is an unsafe building or structure and a public nuisance, the city or v…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1722.01 Property or building; unsafe or unfit for human occupancy; duties.
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Whenever the governing body of a municipality has decided by resolution or other determination that a property is unsafe or unfit for human occupancy because of one or more violations of its minimum standard housing ordinance or has decided by resolution or other determination th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1723 Tenured firefighter; tenured police officer; presumption of death or disability; rebuttable.
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(1) The Legislature finds and declares the subject of this section to be a matter of general statewide concern. (2) For purposes of this section: (a) Tenured firefighter means any firefighter who was employed as a firefighter for at least five years by any city or village in this…