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337 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5502 Legislative findings.
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The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) Residential density is beneficial in making better and more cost-effective use of municipal resources and services; (2) There is a need for affordable housing in municipalities of all sizes in Nebraska. Affordable housing contributes t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5503 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Municipal Density and Missing Middle Housing Act: (1) Accessory dwelling unit means an interior, attached, or detached residential structure that is used in connection with, or that is an accessory to, a single-family dwelling and is located on the same lot or…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5504 Affordable housing; report; contents.
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(1) On or before July 1, 2021, and by each July 1 every two years thereafter, each city shall electronically submit a report to the Urban Affairs Committee of the Legislature detailing its efforts to address the availability of and incentives for affordable housing through its zo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5505 Affordable housing action plan; required; failure to adopt; effect.
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(1) On or before January 1, 2023, each city with a population of fifty thousand or more inhabitants shall adopt an affordable housing action plan. On or before January 1, 2024, each city with a population of less than fifty thousand inhabitants shall adopt an affordable housing a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5506 Act, how construed.
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Nothing in the Municipal Density and Missing Middle Housing Act shall be construed to prohibit any city from: (1) Regulating the siting and design of middle housing provided for under section 19-5505, except that such regulation shall not prohibit or have the effect of physically…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5701 Act, how cited.
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Sections 19-5701 to 19-5708 shall be known and may be cited as the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5702 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act: (1) Eligible grantee means a city of the first class, city of the second class, or village with a redevelopment plan approved under the Community Development Law; (2) Infrastructure includes water systems, sewer systems, ro…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5703 Municipality Infrastructure Aid Program; created; purpose.
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The Municipality Infrastructure Aid Program is created. The Department of Economic Development shall administer the program. The purpose of the program is to finance infrastructure improvements in cities of the first class, cities of the second class, and villages.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5704 Grant; application; contents; eligibility; limitations.
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(1) Beginning July 1, 2024, an eligible grantee may apply to the Department of Economic Development for a grant under the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act on forms created by the department. (2) To be eligible for a grant under the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act, an eligi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5705 Department of Economic Development; duties.
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The Department of Economic Development shall: (1) Create an application process for an eligible grantee to apply for a grant under the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act; (2) Establish a process for awarding grants under the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act and how grant mone…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5706 Department of Economic Development; consultation authorized.
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The Department of Economic Development may consult with statewide associations representing municipal officials, economic developers, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment in order to carry out the Municipality Infrastructure Aid A…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5707 Municipality Infrastructure Aid Fund; created; use; investment.
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The Municipality Infrastructure Aid Fund is created. The fund shall be administered by the Department of Economic Development and shall be used for the purposes of the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act, except that transfers may be made from the fund to the General Fund at the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5708 Rules and regulations.
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The Department of Economic Development may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Municipality Infrastructure Aid Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5801 Act, how cited.
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Sections 19-5801 to 19-5805 shall be known and may be cited as the Poverty Elimination Action Plan Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5802 Legislative findings; act, purpose.
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The Legislature finds that there is a need to address the problem of poverty in high-poverty areas, qualified census tracts, and economic redevelopment areas in the state. The purpose of the Poverty Elimination Action Plan Act is to create a comprehensive, statewide poverty elimi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5803 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Poverty Elimination Action Plan Act: (1) City means any city of the metropolitan class or city of the primary class; (2) Economic redevelopment area means an area in the State of Nebraska in which: (a) The average rate of unemployment in the area during the pe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5804 Poverty elimination action plan; establish and adopt; contents; reevaluate and update.
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(1) No later than July 1, 2025, each city shall establish and adopt a five-year poverty elimination action plan. The city shall electronically submit a copy of the plan to the Urban Affairs Committee of the Legislature and the Clerk of the Legislature. The plan shall include, but…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5805 Report.
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(1) On or before July 1, 2025, and on or before July 1 of each odd-numbered year thereafter, each city shall electronically submit a report to the Urban Affairs Committee of the Legislature detailing its efforts to eliminate poverty. The report shall encompass the following key c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-5901 Municipal waterworks, sewer system, or water system; sale to Indian tribe; requirements.
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(1) A city of the primary class, city of the first class, city of the second class, or village may sell or transfer any waterworks, sewer system, or water system owned by such city or village to an Indian tribe if the following requirements are met: (a) The waterworks, sewer syst…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-601 Act, how cited.
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Sections 19-601 to 19-662 shall be known and may be cited as the City Manager Plan of Government Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-602 City, defined; population; how determined.
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For purposes of the City Manager Plan of Government Act, city means any city having a population of one thousand or more and less than two hundred thousand inhabitants. The population of a city shall be the number of inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-603 Charter and general laws; force and effect.
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In any city which adopts the city manager plan of government as provided in the City Manager Plan of Government Act, the charter and all general laws governing such city shall continue in full force and effect, except that if any provisions of such charter or laws are inconsisten…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-604 Ordinances; resolutions; orders; regulations; force and effect.
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All valid ordinances, resolutions, orders, or other regulations of a city which adopts the city manager plan of government, or any authorized body or official of such city, existing at the time the city manager plan becomes applicable in the city, and not inconsistent with the Ci…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-605 City manager plan; petition for adoption; election.
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Whenever the electors of any city, equal in number to twenty percent of those who voted at the last regular city election, shall file a petition with the city clerk, asking that the question of organizing the city under the city manager plan of government be submitted to the elec…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-606 City manager plan; adoption or abandonment; election.
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The proposition to adopt or to abandon the city manager plan of government shall not be submitted to the electors of any city later than sixty days before a regular municipal election. If, in any city, a sufficient petition is filed requiring that the question of adopting the com…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-607 Election; ballot; form.
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In submitting the question of adopting the city manager plan of government, the city council shall cause to be printed on the ballots the following question: Shall the city manager plan of government as provided in the City Manager Plan of Government Act be adopted? Immediately f…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-608 Election; adoption of plan; when effective; rejection; resubmission.
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If the city manager plan of government is approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, such plan shall go into effect immediately as it applies to the nomination and election of officers provided for in sections 19-612 to 19-613.01, and in all other respects such plan s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-609 City manager plan; abandonment; petition; election.
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Any city which has operated under the city manager plan of government for at least four years may abandon such organization and either accept the provisions of the general law applicable to such city or adopt any other optional plan or organization open to such city. The petition…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-610 Local charters; right to adopt.
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Nothing in the City Manager Plan of Government Act shall be construed to interfere with or prevent any city at any time from framing and adopting a charter for its own government as provided by the Constitution of Nebraska. In exercising the right to frame its own charter, it sha…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-611 City council; powers.
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The governing body of a city which has adopted the city manager plan of government shall be the city council, which shall exercise all the powers which have been or may be conferred upon the city by the Constitution of Nebraska and laws of the state, except as otherwise provided …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-612 City council members; number; nomination and election; terms.
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City council members in a city under the city manager plan of government shall be nominated and elected as provided in section 32-538. The number of city council members shall be determined by the class and population of the city. In cities having one thousand or more but not mor…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-613 City council members; qualifications; forfeiture of office; grounds.
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Members of the city council in a city under the city manager plan of government shall be residents and registered voters of the city and shall hold no other employment with the city. Any city council member who ceases to possess any of the qualifications required by this section …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-613.01 City council members; elected from a ward; election; ballots.
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Any city council member in a city under the city manager plan of government to be elected from a ward, or an appointed successor in the event of a vacancy, shall be a resident and a registered voter of such ward. The city council member shall be nominated and elected in the same …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-615 City council; meetings; quorum.
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At the first regular meeting in December following the general election in every even-numbered year, the city council in a city under the city manager plan of government shall meet in the usual place for holding meetings and the newly elected city council members shall assume the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-616 Appointive or elected official; compensation; no change during term of office; mayor and city council members; salaries; procedure.
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(1) The annual compensation of the mayor and city council members in cities under the city manager plan of government shall be payable quarterly in equal installments and shall be fixed by the city council subject to subsection (2) of this section. The salary of any appointive or…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-617 City council; organization, when; president; powers.
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At the first regular meeting in December following the general election in every even-numbered year, the city council in a city under the city manager plan of government shall elect one of its members as president, who shall be ex officio mayor, and another as vice president, who…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-618 City council; city manager; appointment; investigatory powers of city council.
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The city council in a city under the city manager plan of government shall choose a city manager, a city clerk, and, where required, a civil service commission, but no member of the city council shall be chosen as manager or as a member of the civil service commission. Neither th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-619 Appropriations and expenses; revision; power of first city council.
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If, at the beginning of the term of office of the first city council elected under the city manager plan of government, the appropriations or distribution of the expenditures of the city government for the current fiscal year have been made, the city council shall have power, by …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-620 City council; departments and offices; control.
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The city council in a city under the city manager plan of government shall have authority, subject to the City Manager Plan of Government Act, to create and discontinue departments, offices, and employments, and by ordinance or resolution to prescribe, limit, or change the compen…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-645 City manager; how chosen; qualifications; salary.
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The chief executive officer of a city under the city manager plan of government shall be a city manager, who shall be responsible for the proper administration of all affairs of the city. He or she shall be chosen by the city council for an indefinite period, solely on the basis …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-646 City manager; powers; duties.
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The powers and duties of the city manager shall be (1) to see that the laws and ordinances of the city are enforced, (2) to appoint and remove all heads of city departments and all subordinate officers and employees in such departments in both the classified and unclassified serv…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-647 City manager; investigatory powers.
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The city manager may investigate at any time the affairs of any city department or the conduct of any officer or employee of the city. The city manager, or any person or persons appointed by him or her for such purpose, shall have the same power to compel the attendance of witnes…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-648 City manager; bond; premium; payment.
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Before taking office the city manager shall file with the city clerk a surety company bond, conditioned upon the honest and faithful performance of his or her duties, in such sum as shall be fixed by the city council. The premium of such bond shall be paid by the city.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-662 City manager plan; abandoning; petition; filing; election.
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Whenever electors of any city under the city manager plan of government, equal in number to thirty percent of those who voted at the last regular city election, shall file a petition with the city clerk, asking that the question of abandoning the city manager plan of government b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-701 Public utility; condemnation; election; resubmission.
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Whenever the qualified electors of any city of the primary class, city of the first class, city of the second class, or village shall vote at any general or special election to acquire and appropriate, by an exercise of the power of eminent domain, any waterworks, waterworks syst…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-702 Court of condemnation; members; hearing; parties; notice.
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If the election at which the question is submitted pursuant to section 19-701 is a special election and sixty percent of the votes cast upon such proposition are in favor thereof, or if the election at which the question is submitted is a general election and a majority of the vo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-703 Court of condemnation; powers and duties; vacancy, how filled.
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Any court of condemnation appointed pursuant to section 19-702 shall have full power to summon and swear witnesses, take evidence, order the taking of depositions, and require the production of any and all books and papers deemed necessary for a full investigation and ascertainme…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-704 Court of condemnation; award; appeal; procedure; effect of appeal.
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Upon the determination and filing of a finding of the value of any plant, works, or system by a court of condemnation pursuant to sections 19-702 and 19-703, the city or village shall then have the right and power by ordinance duly passed by the city council or village board of t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-705 Court of condemnation; appeal; judgment; bonds.
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Upon the hearing of an appeal in the district court pursuant to section 19-704, judgment shall be pronounced, as in ordinary cases, for the value of such works, plant, or system. The city, village, party, or corporation owning such plant, works, or system may appeal to the Court …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-706 Court of condemnation; members; compensation; costs; witness fees.
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The district judges constituting the court of condemnation appointed pursuant to sections 19-702 and 19-703 shall each receive from and be paid by such city or village fifteen dollars per day for their services and their necessary traveling expenses, hotel bills, and all other ne…