Chapter 18 — CITIES AND VILLAGES; LAWS APPLICABLE TO ALL
743 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2710.03 Economic development program; applicant; certification regarding tax incentives; city consider information.
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(1) At the time that a qualifying business applies to a city to participate in an economic development program, the qualifying business shall certify the following to the city: (a) Whether the qualifying business has filed or intends to file an application to receive tax incentiv…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2711 Land purchase; creation of loan fund; additional requirements.
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(1) If the proposed economic development program involves the purchase of or option to purchase land, the proposed plan shall also specify the manner in which tracts of land will be identified for purchase or option to purchase and whether or not the city proposes to use the proc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2712 Public hearing; governing body; adopt resolution; filing.
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Upon completion of the proposed plan, the governing body of the city shall schedule a public hearing at which such plan shall be presented for public comment and discussion. Following the public hearing, the governing body shall adopt the proposed plan and any amendments by resol…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2713 Election; procedures.
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(1) Before adopting an economic development program, a city shall submit the question of its adoption to the registered voters at an election. The governing body of the city shall order the submission of the question by filing a certified copy of the resolution proposing the econ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2714 Economic development program; established by ordinance; amendment; repeal; procedures.
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(1) After approval by the voters of an economic development program, the governing body of the city shall, within forty-five days after such approval, establish the economic development program by ordinance in conformity with the terms of such program as set out in the original e…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2715 Citizen advisory review committee; membership; meetings; powers; unauthorized disclosure of information; penalty.
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(1) The ordinance establishing the economic development program shall provide for the creation of a citizen advisory review committee. The committee shall consist of not less than five or more than ten registered voters of the city who shall be appointed to the committee by the m…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2716 Expenditures; budget.
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Following the adoption of an ordinance establishing an economic development program, the amount to be expended on the program for the ensuing year or biennial period shall be fixed at the time of making the annual or biennial budget required by law and shall be included in the bu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2717 Appropriations; restrictions.
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(1) No city of the metropolitan class or primary class shall appropriate from funds derived directly from local sources of revenue more than five million dollars for all approved economic development programs in any one year, no city of the first class shall appropriate from fund…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2718 Economic development fund; required; use; investment; termination of program; effect; continuation of program; election.
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(1) Any city conducting an economic development program shall establish a separate economic development fund. All funds derived from local sources of revenue for the economic development program, any earnings from the investment of such funds including, but not limited to, intere…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2719 Loan fund program; qualifying business; documentation required.
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At the time when a qualifying business makes application to a city to participate in a loan fund program, the qualifying business shall provide to the city appropriate documentation evidencing its negotiations with one or more primary lenders and the terms upon which it has recei…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2720 Loan fund program; loan servicing requirements.
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(1) If the economic development program involves the establishment of a loan fund, the governing body of the city shall designate an appropriate individual to assume primary responsibility for loan servicing and shall provide such other assistance or additional personnel as may b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2721 Audit.
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The city shall provide for an annual, outside, independent audit of its economic development program by a qualified private auditing business. The auditing business shall not, at the time of the audit or for any period during the term subject to the audit, have any contractual or…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2722 Continuation of program; election; procedure.
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(1) The registered voters of any city that has established an economic development program shall, at any time after one year following the original vote on the program, have the right to vote on the continuation of the economic development program. The question shall be submitted…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2723 Appropriations and expenditures; exempt.
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Appropriations and expenditures made by a city which are authorized by section 13-315 and made according to its provisions shall not be subject to the Local Option Municipal Economic Development Act and shall be exempt from its requirements.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2724 Issuance of bonds; purpose; not general obligation of city.
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Any city which has received voter approval to conduct an economic development program pursuant to the Local Option Municipal Economic Development Act, which program as presented to the voters included the authority to issue bonds pursuant to the act, may from time to time issue b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2725 Issuance of bonds; immunity.
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The members of a city's governing body and any person executing bonds under section 18-2724 shall not be liable personally on such bonds by reason of the issuance thereof.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2726 Issuance of bonds; authorization; form.
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Bonds issued under section 18-2724 shall be authorized by resolution of the issuing city's governing body, may be issued under a resolution or under a trust indenture or other security instrument in one or more series, and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or tim…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2727 Bonds; negotiability; sale.
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(1) Except as the issuing city's governing body may otherwise provide, any bond and any attached interest coupons shall be fully negotiable within the meaning of and for all purposes of article 8, Uniform Commercial Code. (2) The bonds may be sold at public or private sale as pro…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2728 Bonds; officers' signatures; validity.
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If any of the officers whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons issued under section 18-2724 cease to be such officers before the delivery of such obligations, such signatures shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes to the same extent as if such officer…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2729 Issuance of bonds; city covenants and powers.
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Any city may in connection with the issuance of its bonds under section 18-2724: (1) Covenant as to the use of any or all of the property, real or personal, acquired pursuant to its economic development program; (2) Redeem the bonds, covenant for their redemption, and provide the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2730 Refunding bonds; issuance authorized.
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Any city may issue and sell refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or providing for the payment of any of its bonds issued under section 18-2724 at or prior to maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. Refunding bonds may be issued at any time prior to or at the maturity or…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2731 Refunding bonds; use; holder of bonds; payment of interest.
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Refunding bonds issued under section 18-2730 may be exchanged for and in payment and discharge of any of the outstanding obligations being refunded. The refunding bonds may be exchanged for a like, greater, or smaller principal amount of the bonds being refunded as the issuing ci…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2732 Refunding bonds; deposit of proceeds in trust; investments authorized; section, how construed.
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To the extent not required for the immediate payment and retirement of the obligations being refunded or for the payment of expenses incurred in connection with such refunding and subject to any agreement with the holders of any outstanding bonds, principal proceeds from the sale…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2733 Refunding bonds; general provisions applicable.
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The issue of refunding bonds, the manner of sale, the maturities, interest rates, form, and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties, and obligations of the city in respect of the same shall be governed by the provisi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2734 Issuance of bonds; consent or other conditions not required.
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Bonds may be issued under sections 18-2724 to 18-2736 without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau, or instrumentality of this state and without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2735 Bonds; securities; investment authorized.
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Bonds issued pursuant to sections 18-2724 to 18-2736 shall be securities in which all public officers and instrumentalities of the state and all political subdivisions, insurance companies, trust companies, banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies, executors, ad…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2736 Bonds; tax exempt.
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All bonds of a city issued pursuant to sections 18-2724 to 18-2736 are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempt from all taxes.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2737 Economic development program approved prior to June 1, 1993; bond issuance; authorized; procedure.
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(1) Any city which has received voter approval to conduct an economic development program pursuant to the Local Option Municipal Economic Development Act prior to June 1, 1993, may, subject to subsection (2) of this section, issue bonds as provided by the act even though the prop…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2738 Act; supplemental powers; how construed.
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The powers conferred by the Local Option Municipal Economic Development Act shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law and shall be independent of and in addition to any other provisions of the law of Nebraska, including the Community Developme…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2739 Production of films, commercials, and television programs; qualifying business; duties.
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A qualifying business which derives its principal source of income from the production of films, commercials, and television programs and which is utilizing an economic development program shall (1) provide notice to the Nebraska Film Office or its successor of each project for w…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2801 Act, how cited.
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Sections 18-2801 to 18-2808 shall be known and may be cited as the Municipal Proprietary Function Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2802 Purpose of act.
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The purpose of the Municipal Proprietary Function Act is to require municipal governing bodies of cities of all classes and villages to follow prescribed procedures and make available to the public pertinent financial information with regard to functions of municipal government w…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2803 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Municipal Proprietary Function Act: (1) Fiscal year shall mean the twelve-month period established by each governing body for each proprietary function of municipal government for determining and carrying on its financial affairs for each proprietary function;…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2804 Fiscal year established.
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Each governing body may establish a separate fiscal year for each proprietary function, except that any proprietary function which is subsidized by appropriations from the municipality's general fund shall have the same fiscal year as the municipality. For purposes of this sectio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2805 Proposed proprietary budget statement; contents; filing.
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(1) At least thirty days prior to the start of the fiscal year of each proprietary function, a proposed proprietary budget statement shall be prepared in writing and filed with the municipal clerk containing the following information: (a) For the immediately preceding fiscal year…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2806 Proposed proprietary budget statement; hearing; procedure; adopted statement; filing.
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(1) After a proposed proprietary budget statement is filed with the municipal clerk, the governing body shall conduct a public hearing on such statement. Notice of the time and place of the hearing, a summary of the proposed proprietary budget statement, and notice that the full …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2807 Proprietary function reconciliation statement; when adopted; filing; public hearing; when.
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If the actual expenditures for a proprietary function exceed the estimated expenditures in the proprietary budget statement during its fiscal year, the governing body shall adopt a proprietary function reconciliation statement within ninety days after the end of such fiscal year …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2808 Act; exemption; accounting of income.
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If the budget of a proprietary function is included in the municipal budget statement created pursuant to the Nebraska Budget Act, the Municipal Proprietary Function Act need not be followed for that proprietary function. Any income from a proprietary function which is transferre…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-2901 Urban growth district; authorized; urban growth bonds and refunding bonds.
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(1) The Legislature recognizes that there is a growing concern among municipalities that infrastructure costs and needs are great, especially in areas that are on the edge of or near the municipal boundaries and in need of development resources, and the governing bodies of munici…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-3001 Planned unit development ordinance; authorized; planned unit development approval; conditions.
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section and notwithstanding any provisions of Chapter 14, article 4, Chapter 15, article 9, or Chapter 19, article 9, or of any home rule charter to the contrary, every city or village may include within its zoning ordinance provis…
Repealed. Laws 1983, LB 370, § 28.
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Repealed. Laws 1986, LB 548, § 15.
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Repealed. Laws 1986, LB 548, § 15.
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Repealed. Laws 1986, LB 548, § 15.
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Repealed. Laws 1986, LB 548, § 15.
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Repealed. Laws 1986, LB 548, § 15.
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Repealed. Laws 1986, LB 548, § 15.
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Repealed. Laws 1961, c. 53, § 6.
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Repealed. Laws 1982, LB 347, § 13.
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Repealed. Laws 1982, LB 347, § 13.
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[Repealed or reserved.]