Chapter 72, PUBLIC LANDS, BUILDINGS, AND FUNDS
330 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-240.23 Permitted improvements and growing crops of lessee; lease of land; value of improvements and crops; new lessee; payment.
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If land is not sold under the provisions of sections 72-240.10 to 72-240.23, 72-257, and 72-258 and is leased according to section 72-258.01, the new lessee shall pay to the old lessee the value of his or her permitted improvements as determined for sale purposes.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-240.25 School lands; lessee; relinquish interest; notice.
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Any lessee of educational lands may, subject to the approval of the board, relinquish his interest in such lease as of the following December 31 by notice to the Board of Educational Lands and Funds on or before November 30 of that year. The notice must be in writing signed and a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-240.26 Board of Educational Lands and Funds; Nebraska Investment Council; annual report; contents.
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The Board of Educational Lands and Funds and the Nebraska Investment Council shall jointly report annually to the Clerk of the Legislature, and such report shall contain anticipated future actions by the board as well as actions already taken. The report submitted to the Clerk of…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-2401 Ferguson House Fund; created; use; investment.
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The Ferguson House Fund is created. The fund shall be used by the state building division of the Department of Administrative Services only for the operation, administration, maintenance, restoration, and renovation of the Ferguson House and grounds. Revenue credited to the fund …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-241 School lands; leases; assignments; validity; recording.
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An assignment of a school land lease shall not be valid until recorded in the office of the Board of Educational Lands and Funds and shall not be eligible to such record if there are any payments of interest or rental due at the time the assignment is offered for record.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-242 School lands; publication of notice; fees.
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The publisher of any advertisement in connection with the forfeiture, leasing or sale of any educational lands shall be allowed the fees fixed by law for publishing legal notices, or standard commercial rates when the board elects to use commercial advertising.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-244 School lands; adjoining cities or villages; subdivisions; leasing; amount; procedure.
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Any portion of the lands of this state governed by sections 72-201 to 72-251, adjoining the site of any city or town, may be subdivided into lots and leased as herein provided. The Board of Educational Lands and Funds, being satisfied that by a division of any such tract into lot…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-245 School lands; waste or trespass; penalty.
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If any person shall commit waste or trespass, or other injury or damage, or destroy any of the trees upon any of the educational lands of this state referred to in sections 72-201 to 72-251, except as herein authorized, he shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-246 School lands; leases; covenant required.
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All leases executed after May 3, 1935, with respect to educational lands shall contain a covenant to the effect that no prairie lands shall be broken without written permission authorized by the Board of Educational Lands and Funds.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-247 School lands; waste or trespass; violations; submission to grand jury.
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A judge of the district court shall refer charges made under section 72-245 to the grand jury at each term for investigation, and it shall make presentment of all violations thereof.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-248 School lands; timber; sale; public auction.
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The Board of Educational Lands and Funds may sell timber on educational lands whenever the board deems it for the best interest of school funds. Said timber shall be sold at public auction in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-249 Federal funds; receipt; deposit; how allocated.
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The Governor of the state is empowered and directed to receive from the United States all money that may be due or may become due to the state, and it shall be his or her duty to deposit the same without delay in the treasury of the state, taking the State Treasurer's receipts th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-250 Permanent school fund; sale of public lands; credit to state.
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All money that may be received from the United States on account of the five percent fund on cash sale shall be placed to the credit of the permanent school fund of the state.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-2501 Nebraska Incentives Fund; created; investment.
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The Nebraska Incentives Fund is created. Transfers may be made from the fund to the General Fund at the direction of the Legislature. Any money in the Nebraska Incentives Fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-251 Permanent school fund; collections on judgments; payable to fund.
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All money arising from collections on judgments in favor of the state, shall be transferred and paid into the permanent school fund and become a part thereof.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-253 School lands; exchange for federal or other lands; board; powers and duties.
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(1) The Board of Educational Lands and Funds is authorized and empowered to enter into agreements with the officers and agents of the United States Government for the exchange of any state educational lands lying within any federal forest or game reserve within this state for oth…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-254 School and federal lands; exchange; lease; renewal; removal of improvements.
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Any lands so received and patented from the United States shall be held as a part of the educational lands of this state, and shall be subject to all existing laws pertaining to such lands; Provided, that such lands, so received in exchange, shall only be subject to lease for ter…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-255 School and federal lands; exchange; lessee's interest; release; condemnation; procedure.
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The Board of Educational Lands and Funds is further authorized to secure from the holders of any leases of any educational lands lying in any federal forest reserve, surrenders, relinquishments, or cancellation of such leases. If the board and the holder of any such leases cannot…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-256 School and federal lands; exchange; minimum appraised value.
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The appraised value of any state lands exchanged under sections 72-253 to 72-255 shall not be less than seven dollars per acre, and the appraised value of the United States land received therefor shall correspond to this requirement.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-257 School lands; expiration of lease; sale; mineral rights; appraisal; limitation on price; contiguous tracts; how treated.
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All lands, now owned or hereafter acquired by the state for educational purposes, may be sold at the expiration of the present leases. The Board of Educational Lands and Funds shall retain all mineral rights in the land sold. Prior to such sale, the land may be appraised for purp…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-257.01 School lands; priorities for sale; request to sell.
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The Board of Educational Lands and Funds shall review and set priorities for the sale of lands covered by leases expiring each year, giving the highest priority to those lands which it determines, considering all relevant factors, can be sold to the best advantage. Any leaseholde…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-258 School lands; sale; notice; terms; partition; settlement; forfeiture of deposit; when.
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Educational land shall be offered for sale at public auction by a representative of the Board of Educational Lands and Funds and sold at not less than the appraised value to the highest bidder. Notice of such sale and the time and place where the same will be held shall be given …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-258.01 School lands; unsold; lease; duration.
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If such land should not be sold according to the provisions of sections 72-208, 72-257, 72-257.01, and 72-258, then it shall be offered for lease as the Board of Educational Lands and Funds shall provide for a period of not less than three years nor more than eight years as the b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-258.02 National System of Interstate and Defense Highways; construction on school lands; sale; procedure.
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Whenever a portion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways is constructed on school land and an interchange is constructed on such school land, the Board of Educational Lands and Funds shall offer such land for sale at public auction in such tracts as the board …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-258.03 School lands; sale; appraised value.
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For purposes of sales of educational lands at public auction, appraised value is the value as determined by the Board of Educational Lands and Funds.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259 School lands; sale; proceeds; disposition.
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(1) The Board of Educational Lands and Funds shall deposit the proceeds of the sales of educational lands with the State Treasurer for the benefit of the various funds as provided in this section. (2) The proceeds of the sales of common school and saline educational lands shall b…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.01 School lands; adjacent to city of the first or second class; plat; request for annexation; filing.
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When any educational lands abutting on and adjacent to any city of the first or second class that are needed for the expansion of such city have been subdivided into lots for the purpose of sale, as provided by section 72-257, the Board of Educational Lands and Funds may cause a …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.02 School lands; adjacent to city of the first or second class; plat; contents; certification.
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Such plat shall accurately describe all subdivisions of such tract or parcel of land, numbering the same by progressive numbers and giving the dimensions in length and breadth thereof, and the breadth and courses of all streets and alleys established therein, and shall be certifi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.03 School lands; adjacent to city of the first or second class; annexation; vote.
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The city council shall, at the next regular meeting thereof after the filing of such plat, as required by section 72-259.01, and request for annexation, vote upon the question of such annexation. The vote thereon shall be spread upon the records of such city.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.04 School lands; adjacent to city of the first or second class; annexation; ordinance; contents.
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If a majority of all members of the council vote for such annexation, an ordinance shall be prepared and passed by the council declaring the annexation of such territory to the corporate limits of the city and extending the limits thereof accordingly. Such ordinance shall designa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.05 School lands; adjacent to city of the first or second class; annexation; filings required.
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There shall be filed forthwith, in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county, (1) a plat of such territory certified by the State Surveyor, (2) a certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Educational Lands and Funds approving the same and requesting the anne…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.06 School lands; adjacent to city of the first or second class; dedication of streets and alleys.
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The filing of such plat and proceedings in the office of the register of deeds shall constitute a dedication of the streets and alleys contained therein so long as the same shall be used for such public purposes.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.07 School lands; adjacent to city of the first or second class; sale; taxes; when.
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The lands included in the territory so annexed shall not be subject to any taxes or special assessments so long as the same remain the property of the state, but upon sale and delivery of a deed by the state to the purchaser the lands so conveyed shall forthwith be placed upon th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-259.08 School lands; subdivide; plat; filing; dedication of streets and alleys.
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Whenever the Board of Educational Lands and Funds determines, considering all relevant factors, that it would be in the best interests of the educational trust to do so, it may subdivide and plat any tract prior to offering it for sale. Such plats shall be prepared as prescribed …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-2601 Grant program; probation or parole; effect on consideration for award.
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, in administering any grant program, a state agency or political subdivision shall not exclude any person from consideration solely because such person, or any person associated with such person, is currently or has previou…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-261 School lands; acquisition by Game and Parks Commission; procedure; approval by Governor.
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The Game and Parks Commission is authorized to acquire title by condemnation to not more than one section or six hundred forty acres of educational lands in any calendar year for parks, recreation areas, or wildlife management areas, or any combination of these uses. The commissi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-262 Resurvey of school lands; Grant and Hooker Counties; acceptance.
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The State of Nebraska hereby adopts the Dixon and Alt survey of the school lands included in the survey made in accordance with the special Act of Congress entitled, An act providing for the resurvey of Grant and Hooker Counties in the State of Nebraska, approved August 9, 1894, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-263 Resurvey of school lands; Morrill County; acceptance.
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The resurvey made by the United States Government of school sections sixteen and thirty-six, in townships twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-three north, of range forty-seven, west of the sixth principal meridian, in Morrill County, Nebraska, and known as tracts numbers sixty-thre…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-266 Board of Educational Lands and Funds; authority to sell personal property.
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The state Board of Educational Lands and Funds may sell, at either public or private sale, and convert into money, articles of personal property acquired by the common school fund through bequest, gift, escheat or forfeiture to the State of Nebraska.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-267 School lands; Cherry County; designation; subdivision; improvements; sale.
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The northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 31, township 34, north, range 27, west of the sixth principal meridian; section 32 and lots 1 and 2, and the west half of the southeast quarter of section 33, and the west half of section 33, township 34, north, range 27, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-268 School lands; Cherry County; funds; deposit; transfer.
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The Board of Educational Lands and Funds shall place all money received for rental of the land, described in section 72-267, in the temporary school fund and all money received from the sale of the land, authorized to be sold by section 72-267, in the permanent school fund. All m…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-269 School lands; Dawes County; transfer to Game and Parks Commission.
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The Board of Educational Lands and Funds is authorized and directed to sell section thirty-six, township thirty-two north, range forty-nine, west of the sixth principal meridian, Dawes County, Nebraska, reserving mineral, oil, and gas rights, to the Game and Parks Commission on p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-270 Production of wind or solar energy; agreements; sections applicable.
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Agreements involving the production of wind or solar energy on lands under the control of the Board of Educational Lands and Funds shall be regulated by sections 72-270 to 72-274.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-2701 Nebraska Technology Infrastructure Cash Fund; created; use; investment.
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The Nebraska Technology Infrastructure Cash Fund is created. The fund shall consist of revenue and transfers credited to the fund as authorized by law. Money shall be appropriated from the fund to state agencies for making payments on projects as determined by the Legislature, in…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-271 Production of wind or solar energy; agreements; terms, defined.
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For purposes of sections 72-270 to 72-274: (1) Agreement means (a) for purposes of a solar energy system, a solar agreement as defined in section 66-909 and (b) for purposes of a wind energy conversion system, a wind agreement as defined in section 66-909.04; (2) Board means the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-272 Production of wind energy or solar energy; agreements; board; powers.
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The board may authorize agreements for the use of any school or public lands belonging to the state and under its control for exploration and development of wind energy or solar energy for such durations and under such terms and conditions as the board shall deem appropriate, exc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-273 Wind energy or solar energy agreement; prior lease; effect on rights; compensation for damages.
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(1) If an agreement relating to wind energy or solar energy is authorized by the board on land already being leased for agricultural or other purposes by a prior lessee, the existing rights of the prior lessee shall not be impaired, and the board shall reduce the rental amount du…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-274 Wind energy or solar energy agreement; rules and regulations.
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The board may adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and proper to regulate the agreements relating to wind energy or solar energy exploration and development on school and public lands pursuant to sections 72-270 to 72-274 and to prescribe suc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-301 State lands, lakes, and rivers; mineral rights; reserved to state; exception.
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All common school, university, normal, saline or other public lands, lakes, lake beds, river beds and channels, belonging to the state or under its control, and all lands which may hereafter be so owned, and all of such lands which have heretofore been sold or conveyed by the sta…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 72-302 Mineral rights; who may acquire.
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Any person or association of persons, corporate or otherwise, desiring to obtain the right to prospect for and develop the minerals or valuable substances upon or in any of the public lands or waters of the state, except oil and gas, may do so under the provisions of sections 72-…