Chapter 84, STATE OFFICERS

(1) All state officers and heads of departments and their deputies, assistants, and employees, except permanent part-time employees, temporary employees, and members of any board or commission not required to render full-time service, shall render not less than forty hours of lab…

All heads of institutions and their deputies, assistants, and employees, except part-time employees, shall render not less than forty hours of labor each week.

To effectuate the purposes of sections 84-1001 and 84-1002, any state officer or the head of a department or institution may stagger the hours and days of work of the employees supervised by him except where the salary is set as provided by law.

The Governor shall have authority, after conferring with the employing officers concerned and with the employees, to make sections 84-1001 to 84-1005 effective to employments in any board, commission, department, or institution at any time on or after January 1, 1958.

Subsection (2) of section 84-1001 shall not apply to (1) employees of the University of Nebraska, the state colleges, the Nebraska Brand Committee, or the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, (2) the Superintendent of Law Enforcement and Public Safety, his or her deputie…

The Governor is constituted the legal custodian of all the property of the state not specially entrusted to other officers by law; and he is authorized and empowered to take summary possession of such property of the state, without any process of law, and to adopt such measures a…

Until January 4, 2007, the annual salary of the Governor shall be eighty-five thousand dollars. Commencing January 4, 2007, the annual salary of the Governor shall be one hundred five thousand dollars. Such salary shall be payable in equal monthly installments.

It shall be the duty of the several officers of the executive department to make a written report to the Governor of the public business entrusted to their charge, whenever required by him so to do.

All commissions to civil officers in this state shall be issued and signed by the Governor, and countersigned by the Secretary of State, and a record thereof kept in the office of the Secretary of State.

The Governor shall by proclamation set apart the fourth Thursday in each November as a day of solemn and public thanksgiving to Almighty God for His blessings to us as a state and nation, and no business shall be transacted on that day at any department of state.

The Governor shall issue his proclamation each year designating Veterans Day and calling upon the public schools and citizens of Nebraska to observe such day as a patriotic day. Veterans Day shall be November 11, annually, unless such date falls on Saturday or Sunday, in which ev…

January 15 of each year shall be Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and shall be set apart for holding suitable exercises in the schools of the state in recognition of the sacrifices of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., and his contributions to the betterment of society.

(1) The Governor shall, prior to January 15 of each year, issue a proclamation inviting and urging the people of the State of Nebraska to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in schools and other suitable places with appropriate ceremony and fellowship. (2) The State Department of…

January 5 of each year shall be designated as George W. Norris Day, and shall be set apart for holding suitable exercises in the schools of the state in recognition of the many great benefits bestowed upon the people of the State of Nebraska and the United States as a whole, due …

The Governor of the State of Nebraska shall issue a proclamation calling upon the officials of state government and subdivisions thereof to display the flags of the United States and Nebraska on all public buildings on January 5 of each year and inviting the people of the State o…

The Legislature finds that American Indians were the first residents of the State of Nebraska. The Legislature further finds that these residents have made advances to the growth and development of the United States, the State of Nebraska, and their local communities, first throu…

It is hereby declared that the fourth Monday in September of each year shall be known in Nebraska as American Indian Day and that on this day schools, clubs, and civic and religious organizations shall be encouraged to recognize the contributions of American Indians with suitable…

(1) The Governor shall, prior to the fourth Monday in September of each year, issue a proclamation inviting and urging the people of the State of Nebraska to observe American Indian Day with suitable ceremony and fellowship. (2) The State Department of Education and the Commissio…

The Governor shall annually proclaim April 28 as Workers Memorial Day in remembrance of the courage and integrity of American workers. The Governor shall recommend that Workers Memorial Day be observed in an appropriate manner.

The Governor is authorized to call to his or her assistance and to appoint persons necessary to assist the Superintendent of Law Enforcement and Public Safety to enforce the criminal laws. The superintendent and his or her assistants, who shall be designated deputy state sheriffs…

The Governor shall annually issue his proclamation designating State Day and calling upon the public schools and citizens of Nebraska to observe said day as a patriotic day. State Day shall be on March 1, annually, unless such day falls on Saturday or Sunday, in which event the G…

The Governor of the State of Nebraska is authorized and directed to issue a proclamation calling upon the officials of the state government and subdivisions thereof in local communities to display the flag of the United States on all public buildings on October 11 of each year an…

The observances provided for in sections 84-104.05, 84-104.08, 84-104.09, 84-107, and 84-108 shall not include provisions for such days to be declared paid holidays pursuant to subsection (3) of section 84-1001.

Wherever statewide projects contributed to by any federal agency are initiated within the state, and there is no state agency which is authorized by law to sponsor the same, the same may be sponsored by the Governor under his general power to take care that the affairs of the sta…

Sections 84-1101 to 84-1116 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska General Emergency Succession Act.

Because of the existing possibility of an attack of unprecedented size and destructiveness upon the United States; and in order, in the event of such an attack, to assure continuity of government through legally constituted leadership, authority, and responsibility in offices of …

As used in sections 84-1101 to 84-1116, and unless otherwise clearly required by the context, the following terms, and the customary derivatives thereof, have the respective meanings and connotations shown: (1) An attack means any action or series of actions by an enemy of the Un…

From and after the passage, approval, and taking effect of sections 84-1101 to 84-1116, their provisions shall apply to and shall be binding upon all state offices and officers.

In any political subdivision in which it shall be deemed necessary and advisable that the provisions of sections 84-1101 to 84-1116 apply to the offices and officers therein, the governing body thereof is hereby authorized and empowered to declare, by resolve, that it is necessar…

As soon as possible after sections 84-1101 to 84-1116 shall go into effect or shall become applicable in his case, and in no event later than thirty days thereafter, each obligated officer shall appoint, by title or name, no fewer than three nor more than seven alternates to the …

On making every such appointment, the officer promptly shall notify the appointee directly, and shall concurrently give notice to the public official, to be known as the filing authority, whose office is designated by law as the filing place or repository of the officer's officia…

Within thirty days after receiving notice of his appointment, each alternate shall take and subscribe, before any official empowered by law to administer oaths, the same oath or affirmation as is required by law for the officer to whose powers and duties he is designated to succe…

No person shall accept appointment as alternate to more than one office. No person who has accepted appointment as a standby legislator shall, without first resigning therefrom, accept appointment as an alternate officer, nor shall any person who has accepted an appointment as an…

Until such time as an alternate is authorized to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an officer, as provided in sections 84-1101 to 84-1116, he shall serve as alternate at the pleasure of the officer by whom he was appointed, and may be removed or replaced thereby, or…

In the event that any obligated officer is or becomes unavailable after an attack, the alternate who is highest on the order of succession among those appointed to succeed him, and who is duly qualified therefor and is available, shall forthwith assume the powers and duties of hi…

The authority of alternates to become or to continue to serve as acting officers, as provided in sections 84-1101 to 84-1116, shall not exist unless and until an attack upon the United States actually has occurred; and, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall terminat…

No alternate officer, as such, shall receive any pay or compensation by virtue of his appointment or appointment and qualification, or shall enjoy any of the rights or privileges of the office to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed. An acting officer, however, sha…

The specific title of an alternate or acting officer shall correspond to that of the officer to the powers and duties of whom he is designated to succeed or has succeeded; for example, Alternate, or Acting, Secretary of State; Alternate, or Acting, District Judge, .......... Dist…

(1) Disputes of fact with respect to the right of an alternate to assume the powers and duties of an office, or to the right of an acting officer to continue to serve as such, shall be determined and adjudicated by the following named officials, whose decision in each instance sh…

Nothing in sections 84-1101 to 84-1116 shall be construed as preventing or otherwise affecting the appointment or election, in the manner provided by law, of a successor to any office wherein a legal vacancy exists. But, after an attack, and so long thereafter as the authority of…

If the Lieutenant Governor or Speaker of the Legislature becomes incapable of performing the duties of Governor as provided by Article IV, section 16, of the Constitution of Nebraska, the duties of Governor shall be performed in the following order: Chairperson of the Executive B…

The Legislature declares that: (1) Programs for the systematic and centrally correlated management of state and local records will promote efficiency and economy in the day-to-day record-keeping activities of state and local agencies and will facilitate and expedite governmental …

For purposes of the Records Management Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) State agency means any department, division, office, commission, court, board, or elected, appointed, or constitutional officer, except individual members of the Legislature, or any other unit …

The Secretary of State is hereby designated the State Records Administrator. The administrator shall establish and administer, within and for state and local agencies, (1) a records management program which will apply efficient, cost-effective, modern, and economical methods to t…

(1) The State Records Board is hereby established. The board shall: (a) Advise and assist the administrator in the performance of his or her duties under the Records Management Act; (b) Provide electronic access to public records or electronic information and services through the…

(1) The board may employ or contract with a network manager. A network manager may be an individual, a private entity, a state agency, or another governmental subdivision. The board shall prepare criteria and specifications for the network manager in consultation with the Departm…

Except as provided in sections 52-1316 and 60-483 and article 9, Uniform Commercial Code, the board may establish reasonable fees for electronic access to (1) public records or (2) electronic information and services, through the portal. Fees for electronic access to public recor…

(1) Any state agency other than the courts or the Legislature desiring to enter into an agreement with a private vendor or the network manager to provide electronic access to public records or electronic information and services for a fee shall make a written request for approval…

The board shall provide annual reports to the Executive Board of the Legislative Council and Nebraska Information Technology Commission on its activities pursuant to sections 84-1205 to 84-1205.03. The report submitted to the executive board shall be submitted electronically.

(1) With due regard for the functions of the state and local agencies concerned, and with such guidance and assistance from the board as may be required, the administrator shall: (a) Establish standards, procedures, and techniques for the effective management of public records; (…