Chapter 71, PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
1,943 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,153 Housing agency official; gifts; prohibited acts.
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A housing agency official shall not solicit or accept any gift, gratuity, favor, loan, contribution, service, employment, promise of future employment, or other thing of value from any present or prospective employee of the housing agency, any present or prospective contractor, s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,154 Housing agency official; improper use of information.
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No housing agency official shall use any information not generally available to the public which he or she acquires in the course of his or her public service for the purpose of securing financial gain for such official or others.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,155 Misconduct in office.
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Material violation of any provision of sections 71-15,149 to 71-15,157 by a housing agency official shall, unless as otherwise provided in section 71-15,157, constitute misconduct in office.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,156 Conflict of interest; rules authorized.
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A local housing agency may adopt rules implementing sections 71-15,149 to 71-15,157. Such rules may include the provision for such disciplinary actions in the event of violation of sections 71-15,149 to 71-15,157 as the housing agency's board of commissioners may deem appropriate…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,157 Conflict of interest; sections; how construed.
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(1) Nothing contained in sections 71-15,149 to 71-15,157 shall prohibit a housing agency of a city of the second class or of a village from purchasing or otherwise acquiring any goods or services from a provider of such goods or services owned in whole or in part by a housing age…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,158 Property and personnel; policies, rules, and procedures; bidding requirements.
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(1) Local housing agencies shall adopt policies, rules, and procedures governing the procurement of goods or services, the sale or disposition of agency property, and the management of agency personnel. Such policies, rules, and procedures shall apply to all controlled affiliates…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,159 Local housing agency; joint exercise of powers authorized.
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In addition to the cooperative action by public agencies through the formation and operation of regional housing agencies authorized under sections 71-1581 to 71-1587, any power, privilege, or authority exercised or capable of being exercised by a local housing agency of this sta…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,160 Local housing agency; joint or cooperative powers enumerated.
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(1) Any two or more local housing agencies may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise, either jointly or otherwise, of any or all of their powers for the purpose of financing, including the issuance of bonds, notes, or other obligations, and giving security therefor, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,161 Public agency; powers.
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For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with local housing agencies in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of developments providing decent, safe, and sanitary housing that is affordable to persons of eligible income, and otherwise to assist local housing agen…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,162 State and public agencies; powers.
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The state and all public agencies of this state are authorized to appropriate, lend credit, and make donations to local housing agencies and to agree to make such appropriations, loans, or donations upon such lawful terms and conditions as they shall from time to time deem approp…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,163 Screening of applicants; powers of public agencies.
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(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all public agencies of this state, including state, city, and county law enforcement agencies, shall cooperate with local housing agencies by providing, promptly upon request, information concerning the general background, including…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,164 Enforcement of rights; remedies.
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(1) All rights of local housing agencies existing under law or under any contract, agreement, or arrangement with any party, including this state or any public agency thereof, shall be enforceable by action brought in the courts of this state. (2) In connection with enforcement o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,165 Claims and actions; restrictions.
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No person or entity not expressly named as a party to a contract entered into by a housing agency shall have any right of action, by virtue of the status of such person or entity as a third-party beneficiary of such contract, or otherwise based upon such contract. Any claim or ac…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,166 Act; how construed.
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The Nebraska Housing Agency Act shall be construed liberally to effect the charitable and public purposes thereof. The enumeration of specific powers, authorities, or activities in the act shall not operate to restrict the scope of any general grant of power or authority or any d…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,167 Conflicting provisions; how construed.
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To the extent that any provision of the Nebraska Housing Agency Act shall conflict with any provision of law not contained in the act, the act shall prevail with respect to local housing agencies. It is the intention of the Legislature that, with respect to any subject matter cov…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,168 Tort claims; other claims; procedure.
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(1) All tort claims against a housing agency shall be governed by the Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act. (2) Every person who has any claim against a housing agency, other than a tort claim under subsection (1) of this section, shall file the same, in writing, with the execu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,169 Complaint process; city of the metropolitan class.
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(1) A housing agency for a city of the metropolitan class shall establish a complaint process. Any resident of an agency property may file a complaint by any of the following means: (a) A complaint form filled out online on the housing agency's website; (b) A telephone call made …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,170 Grievance procedures; requirements.
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A housing agency for a city of the metropolitan class shall comply with any federal regulations regarding administrative grievance procedures. Such procedures and the actions to which it applies shall be detailed in plain language and included as part of a resident's lease agreem…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-15,171 Housing agency for city of the metropolitan class; annual report; contents.
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A housing agency for a city of the metropolitan class shall submit a report annually to the Urban Affairs Committee of the Legislature. The report shall include: (1) Information regarding any pest control management activities undertaken during the year covered by the report; (2)…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1555 Act, how cited.
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Sections 71-1555 to 71-1568.01 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1556 Declaration of purpose.
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The Legislature finds and declares that uniformity in the manner of construction, assembly, and use of modular housing units and that of their systems, components, and appliances, including their plumbing, heating, and electrical systems, is extremely desirable in order that owne…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1557 Terms, defined.
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As used in the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Modular housing unit means any dwelling whose construction consists entirely of or the major portions of its construction consist of a unit or units, containing fac…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1558 Modular housing units; construction of and installation of plumbing, heating, and electrical systems; standards; manner adopted; when applicable.
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(1) All construction of and all plumbing, heating, and electrical systems installed in modular housing units manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or leased in this state more than six months after July 10, 1976, and before May 1, 1998, shall comply with the standards of the stat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1559 Modular housing unit; compliance assurance program; exception; purpose; inspection; seal; when issued; fee; Public Service Commission Housing and Recreational Vehicle Cash Fund.
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(1) Every modular housing unit, except those constructed or manufactured by any school district or community college area as a part of a buildings trade or other instructional program offered by such district or area, manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or leased in this state …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1560 Modular housing unit; dealer; prohibited acts; exceptions.
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Except as provided in section 71-1561, no dealer shall sell, offer for sale, or lease in this state any new modular housing unit manufactured (1) more than six months after July 10, 1976, and before May 1, 1998, unless such modular housing unit meets or exceeds the standards esta…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1561 Modular housing units; plumbing, heating, electrical, or construction codes; reciprocity; when; prohibited acts; agreements authorized.
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If any other state has plumbing, heating, electrical, or construction codes for modular housing units at least equal to those established by the commission pursuant to the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act, the commission, upon determining that such standar…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1562 Modular housing unit; local codes or standards; compliance not required; exception; site development, defined.
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No agency or political subdivision of the state or a municipality shall require compliance with local codes or standards for the construction of or the installation of structural, plumbing, heating, or electrical systems in a modular housing unit which are different from those es…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1563 Modular housing unit; violation; penalty.
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(1) Any person who manufactures, sells, offers for sale, or leases in this state any modular housing unit which does not bear the seal required by the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor. (2) The com…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1564 Commission; administer act; rules and regulations; powers; enumerated; charge for services.
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(1) The commission is hereby charged with the administration of the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act. The commission may adopt, amend, alter, or repeal general rules and regulations of procedure for carrying out and administering the prov…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1566 Modular housing units; place manufactured, sold, or leased; open to inspection by commission.
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The commission through its authorized representatives may enter any place or establishment where modular housing units are manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or leased for the purpose of inspecting such modular housing units or parts thereof in order to ascertain whether the r…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1567 Seal; denied or suspended; hearing; appeal.
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(1) The commission shall refuse to issue a seal to a manufacturer for any modular housing unit not found to be in compliance with its standards governing the construction of or the structural, plumbing, heating, or electrical systems for modular housing units or for which fees ha…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1568.01 Existing rules, regulations, orders, suits, and proceedings; effect of transfer.
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All rules, regulations, and orders of the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure or its predecessor agency adopted prior to May 1, 1998, in connection with the powers, duties, and functions transferred to the Public Service Commission under the Nebraska …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1569 Scald prevention device; required; when.
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all bathtubs and showers installed in buildings which contain more than one dwelling unit after August 30, 1987, shall be equipped with either a pressure balancing or thermostatic-mixing scald prevention device which is de…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1570 Scald prevention device; inspection.
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Persons employed by political subdivisions to inspect plumbing fixtures shall inspect showers and bathtubs for compliance with section 71-1569.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1571 Scald prevention device; violation; penalty.
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Anyone who installs four or more showers or bathtubs, in a single building, in violation of section 71-1569 shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1572 Act, how cited.
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Sections 71-1572 to 71-15,171 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Housing Agency Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1573 Legislative findings.
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The Legislature declares that: (1) There exists within this state a shortage of residential housing that is decent, safe, and sanitary, situated in safe, livable neighborhoods, and affordable to persons of low and moderate income; (2) Many persons and families throughout this sta…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1574 Act; purposes.
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The purposes of the Nebraska Housing Agency Act are: (1) To remedy the shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing affordable to persons of low and moderate income, to provide opportunities to secure such housing to all such persons, to preserve existing supplies of such housi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1575 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Housing Agency Act: (1) Affiliate means any corporation, entity, partnership, venture, syndicate, or arrangement in which a local housing agency participates by holding an ownership interest or participating in its governance, including both controlle…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1576 Authority established under prior law; existence and actions; how treated.
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Any local housing authority established under any prior Nebraska law relating to housing authorities and in existence on January 1, 2000, shall have continued existence as a housing agency under the Nebraska Housing Agency Act and shall thereafter conduct its operations consisten…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1577 Local housing agency; created; when.
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In each city and county of this state which has not previously established a housing agency or authority, there is hereby created a local housing agency. Such agency shall not be deemed to be established under the Nebraska Housing Agency Act, nor shall it be authorized to conduct…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1578 Local housing agency; resolution or ordinance; effect.
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In order for a city or county to establish a local housing agency which may conduct business and exercise its powers, the governing body of such city or county desiring to establish such agency shall adopt a resolution or ordinance declaring that there is a need for a local housi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1579 Local housing agency; name.
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Each local housing agency established pursuant to the Nebraska Housing Agency Act shall adopt, within or together with the resolution or ordinance required under section 71-1578, a name for all legal and operating purposes. The name so adopted shall include a reference to the geo…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1580 Local housing agency; evidence of establishment.
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A duly certified copy of the resolution or ordinance establishing a local housing agency shall, in any proceeding in which such evidence may be required, be conclusive evidence that such agency has been properly established and is authorized to transact business and exercise its …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1581 Regional housing agency; resolution or ordinance to establish.
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Any two or more cities, two or more counties, or any combination of cities and counties may, by resolution or ordinance of their separate governing bodies, establish a regional housing agency by adopting a joint resolution or ordinance declaring that there is a need for a regiona…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1582 Regional housing agency; resolution or ordinance; effect.
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Upon the adoption of a resolution or ordinance, as provided in section 71-1581, by two or more cities or counties, a regional housing agency shall be established, and except as otherwise provided in the Nebraska Housing Agency Act, such regional housing agency shall have perpetua…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1583 Regional housing agency; name.
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Each regional housing agency established pursuant to the Nebraska Housing Agency Act shall adopt, within or together with the resolution or ordinance required under section 71-1581, a name for all legal and operating purposes. The name so adopted shall include a reference to the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1584 Regional housing agency; evidence of establishment.
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A duly certified copy of the resolution or ordinance establishing a regional housing agency shall, in any proceeding in which such evidence may be required, be conclusive evidence that such agency has been properly established and is authorized to transact business and exercise i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1585 Regional housing agency; additional members; procedure.
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After a regional housing agency has been established, any additional city or county may elect to participate as a member of such regional housing agency upon adoption of a resolution or ordinance to such effect containing, in substance, the findings provided in section 71-1581, i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1586 Regional housing agency; withdrawal; conditions; effect.
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Any participating city or county may withdraw from participation in the regional housing agency by resolution or ordinance of its governing body. Any withdrawal from participation shall be subject to, and may occur only pursuant to, the following conditions: (1) The regional hous…