FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
Ne. Const. art. XV-18, § 0 — Article XV-18 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XV-18
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Governmental powers and functions; intergovernmental cooperation; Legislature may limit; merger or consolidation of counties or other local governments authorized. (1) The state or any local government may exercise any of its powers or perform any of its functions, including financing the same, jointly or in cooperation with any other governmental entity or entities, either within or without the state, except as the Legislature shall provide otherwise by law. (2) The Legislature may provide for the merger or consolidation of counties or other local governments. No merger or consolidation of municipalities or counties shall occur without the approval of a majority of the people voting in each municipality or county to be merged or consolidated as provided by law. If the proposal is a merger or consolidation of one or more municipalities with one or more counties, the vote shall be tabulated in each municipality in the county or counties separately from the areas of the county or counties outside the boundaries of the municipalities. If the merger or consolidation is not approved by a majority of voters voting in the election in a municipality proposed to be merged or consolidated or the areas of the county or counties outside the boundaries of such municipality or municipalities, the proposed merger or consolidation shall be deemed rejected. Any merger or consolidation of local governments may be initiated by petition as provided by law. Annexation shall not be considered a merger or consolidation for purposes of this section. If the Legislature provides for the merger or consolidation of one or more municipalities with one or more counties, the Legislature shall provide for the reversal of the merger or consolidation. No such reversal shall occur without voter approval. The vote shall be tabulated in each municipality which is proposed to be created by the reversal separately from the areas outside the boundaries of the proposed municipalities. If the reversal is not approved by a majority of voters voting in the election in the area within the boundaries of any proposed municipality or the areas outside the proposed municipalities, the reversal shall be deemed rejected. Adopted in 1972. Last amended in 1998.
Ne. Const. art. VII-6, § 0 — Article VII-6 / Section 0
NE Const., Article VII-6
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Educational lands; management; Board of Educational Lands and Funds; members; appointment; sale of lands. No lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the state for educational purposes shall be sold except at public auction under such conditions as the Legislature shall provide. The general management of all lands set apart for educational purposes shall be vested, under the direction of the Legislature, in a board of five members to be known as the Board of Educational Lands and Funds. The members shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to the approval of the Legislature, with such qualifications and for such terms and compensation as the Legislature may provide. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1972.
Ne. Const. art. I-22, § 0 — Article I-22 / Section 0
NE Const., Article I-22
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Elections to be free. (1) All elections shall be free; and there shall be no hindrance or impediment to the right of a qualified voter to exercise the elective franchise. (2) Before casting a ballot in any election, a qualified voter shall present valid photographic identification in a manner specified by the Legislature to ensure the preservation of an individual’s rights under this Constitution and the Constitution of the United States. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 2022.
Ne. Const. art. III-16, § 0 — Article III-16 / Section 0
NE Const., Article III-16
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Members of the Legislature and state officers; conflicts of interest; standards for. No member of the Legislature or any state officer shall have a conflict of interest, as defined by the Legislature, directly in any contract, with the state or any county or municipality thereof, authorized by any law enacted during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed, or within one year after the expiration of such term. The Legislature shall prescribe standards and definitions for determining the existence of such conflicts of interest in contracts, and it shall prescribe sanctions for enforcing this section. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1972.
Ne. Const. art. V-5, § 0 — Article V-5 / Section 0
NE Const., Article V-5
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Supreme Court judicial districts; redistricting; when. The Legislature shall divide the state into six contiguous and compact districts of approximately equal population, which shall be numbered from one to six, which shall be known as the Supreme Court judicial districts. The Legislature shall redistrict the state after each federal decennial census. In any such redistricting, county lines shall be followed whenever practicable, but other established lines may be followed at the discretion of the Legislature. Such districts shall not be changed except upon the concurrence of a majority of the members of the Legislature. Whenever the Supreme Court is redistricted, the judges serving prior to the redistricting shall continue in office, and the law providing for such redistricting shall where necessary specify the newly established districts which they shall represent for the balance of their terms. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1970.
Ne. Const. art. X-5, § 0 — Article X-5 / Section 0
NE Const., Article X-5
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Capital stock; dividends. The capital stock of public utility corporations or common carriers shall not be increased for any purpose, except after public notice for sixty days, and in such manner as may be provided by law. No dividend shall be declared or distributed except out of net earnings after paying all operating expenses including a depreciation reserve sufficient to keep the investment intact. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1920.
Ne. Const. art. IV-25, § 0 — Article IV-25 / Section 0
NE Const., Article IV-25
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Salaries of officials; fees. The officers provided for in this article shall receive such salaries as may be provided by law. Such officers, or such other officers as may be provided for by law, shall not receive for their own use any fees, costs, or interest upon public money in their hands. All fees that may hereafter be payable by law for services performed, or received by an officer provided for in this article, by virtue of his office shall be paid forthwith into the state treasury. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1956.
Ne. Const. art. VII-12, § 0 — Article VII-12 / Section 0
NE Const., Article VII-12
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Education and reform of minors. The Legislature may provide by law for the establishment of a school or schools for the safe keeping, education, employment and reformation of all children under the age of eighteen years, who, for want of proper parental care, or other cause, are growing up in mendicancy or crime. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1920.
Ne. Const. art. I-31, § 0 — Article I-31 / Section 0
NE Const., Article I-31
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Unborn children; protection from abortion; exceptions. Except when a woman seeks an abortion necessitated by a medical emergency or when the pregnancy results from sexual assault or incest, unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimesters. Adopted in 2024.
Ne. Const. art. XV-5, § 0 — Article XV-5 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XV-5
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Use of water dedicated to people. The use of the water of every natural stream within the State of Nebraska is hereby dedicated to the people of the state for beneficial purposes, subject to the provisions of the following section. Adopted in 1920.
Ne. Const. art. XVII-8, § 0 — Article XVII-8 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XVII-8
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Repealed 1972. Laws 1971, LB 504, sec. 1. Adopted in 1875. The repealed language read, "Until otherwise provided by law, the judges of the district courts shall fix the time of holding courts in their respective districts."
Ne. Const. art. V-14, § 0 — Article V-14 / Section 0
NE Const., Article V-14
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Supreme and district judges not to act as attorneys; judge not to practice law, when. No judge of the Supreme or district courts shall act as attorney or counsellor at law in any manner whatsoever. No judge shall practice law in any court in any matter arising in or growing out of any proceedings in his own court. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1970.
Ne. Const. art. III-3, § 0 — Article III-3 / Section 0
NE Const., Article III-3
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Second power reserved; referendum. The second power reserved is the referendum which may be invoked, by petition, against any act or part of an act of the Legislature, except those making appropriations for the expense of the state government or a state institution existing at the time of the passage of such act. Petitions invoking the referendum shall be signed by not less than five percent of the registered voters of the state, distributed as required for initiative petitions, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State within ninety days after the Legislature at which the act sought to be referred was passed shall have adjourned sine die or for more than ninety days. Each such petition shall set out the title of the act against which the referendum is invoked and, in addition thereto, when only a portion of the act is sought to be referred, the number of the section or sections or portion of sections of the act designating such portion. No more than one act or portion of an act of the Legislature shall be the subject of each referendum petition. When the referendum is thus invoked, the Secretary of State shall refer the same to the electors for approval or rejection at the first general election to be held not less than thirty days after the filing of such petition. When the referendum is invoked as to any act or part of act, other than emergency acts or those for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, by petition signed by not less than ten percent of the registered voters of the state distributed as aforesaid, it shall suspend the taking effect of such act or part of act until the same has been approved by the electors of the state. Adopted in 1912. Last amended in 1998.
Ne. Const. art. I-15, § 0 — Article I-15 / Section 0
NE Const., Article I-15
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Penalties; corruption of blood; transporting out of state prohibited. All penalties shall be proportioned to the nature of the offense, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate; nor shall any person be transported out of the state for any offense committed within the state. Adopted in 1875.
Ne. Const. art. VII-5, § 0 — Article VII-5 / Section 0
NE Const., Article VII-5
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Fines, penalties, and license money; allocation; use of forfeited conveyances. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, all fines, penalties, and license money arising under the general laws of the state, except fines and penalties for violation of laws prohibiting the overloading of vehicles used upon the public roads and highways of this state, shall belong and be paid over to the counties respectively where the same may be levied or imposed, and all fines, penalties, and license money arising under the rules, bylaws, or ordinances of cities, villages, precincts, or other municipal subdivision less than a county shall belong and be paid over to the same respectively. All such fines, penalties, and license money shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support of the common schools in the respective subdivisions where the same may accrue, except that all fines and penalties for violation of laws prohibiting the overloading of vehicles used upon the public roads and highways shall be placed as follows: Seventy-five per cent in a fund for state highways and twenty-five per cent to the county general fund where the fine or penalty is paid. (2) Fifty per cent of all money forfeited or seized pursuant to enforcement of the drug laws shall belong and be paid over to the counties for drug enforcement purposes as the Legislature may provide. (3) Law enforcement agencies may use conveyances forfeited pursuant to enforcement of the drug laws as the Legislature may provide. Upon the sale of such conveyances, the proceeds shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support of the common schools as provided in subsection (1) of this section. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1984.
Ne. Const. art. III-15, § 0 — Article III-15 / Section 0
NE Const., Article III-15
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Members privileged from arrest. Members of the Legislature in all cases except treason, felony or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and for fifteen days next before the commencement and after the termination thereof. Adopted in 1875.
Ne. Const. art. III-23, § 0 — Article III-23 / Section 0
NE Const., Article III-23
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Repealed 1972. Laws 1972, LB 302, sec. 1. Adopted in 1875. The original language read, "All offices created by this constitution shall become vacant by the death of the incumbent, by removal from the state, resignation, conviction of a felony, impeachment, or becoming of unsound mind. And the legislature shall provide by general law for the filling of such vacancy when no provision is made for that purpose in this constitution."
Ne. Const. art. V-7, § 0 — Article V-7 / Section 0
NE Const., Article V-7
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Chief Justice; Associate Justices; qualifications. No person shall be eligible to the office of Chief Justice or Judge of the Supreme Court unless he shall be at least thirty years of age, and a citizen of the United States, and shall have resided in this state at least three years next preceding his selection; nor, in the case of a Judge of the Supreme Court selected from a Supreme Court judicial district, unless he shall be a resident and elector of the district from which selected. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1962.
Ne. Const. art. XII-1, § 0 — Article XII-1 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XII-1
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Legislature to provide for organization, regulation, and supervision of corporations and associations; limitation; elections for directors or managers; voting rights of stockholders. The Legislature shall provide by general law for the organization, regulation, supervision and general control of all corporations, and for the organization, supervision and general control of mutual and co-operative companies and associations, and by such legislation shall insure the mutuality and co-operative features and functions thereof. Foreign corporations transacting or seeking to transact business in this state shall be subject, under general law, to regulation, supervision and general control, and shall not be given greater rights or privileges than are given domestic corporations of a similar character. No corporations shall be created by special law, nor their charters be extended, changed or amended, except those corporations organized for charitable, educational, penal or reformatory purposes, which are to be and remain under the patronage and control of the state. The Legislature shall provide by law that in all elections for directors or managers of incorporated companies every stockholder owning voting stock shall have the right to vote in person or proxy for the number of such shares owned by him, for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected or to cumulate such shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number his shares shall equal, or to distribute them upon the same principal among as many candidates as he shall think fit, and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner; Provided , that any mutual or cooperative company or association may, in its articles of incorporation, limit the number of shares of stock any stockholder may own, the transfer of such stock, and the right of each stockholder or member to one vote only in the meetings of such company or association. All general laws passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time, or repealed. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1972.
Ne. Const. art. XV-6, § 0 — Article XV-6 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XV-6
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Right to divert unappropriated waters. The right to divert unappropriated waters of every natural stream for beneficial use shall never be denied except when such denial is demanded by the public interest. Priority of appropriation shall give the better right as between those using the water for the same purpose, but when the waters of any natural stream are not sufficient for the use of all those desiring to use the same, those using the water for domestic purposes shall have preference over those claiming it for any other purpose, and those using the water for agricultural purposes shall have the preference over those using the same for manufacturing purposes. Provided, no inferior right to the use of the waters of this state shall be acquired by a superior right without just compensation therefor to the inferior user. Adopted in 1920.
Ne. Const. art. XV-19, § 0 — Article XV-19 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XV-19
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Liquor licenses; municipalities and counties; powers. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, the governing bodies of municipalities and counties are empowered to approve, deny, suspend, cancel, or revoke retail and bottle club liquor licenses within their jurisdictions as authorized by the Legislature. Adopted in 1992.
Ne. Const. art. XV-2, § 0 — Article XV-2 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XV-2
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Official in default as collector and custodian of public money or property; disqualification; felon disqualified. No person who is in default as collector and custodian of public money or property shall be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the constitution or laws of this state. No person convicted of a felony shall be eligible to any such office unless he shall have been restored to civil rights. Adopted in 1875. Last amended in 1972.
Ne. Const. art. XI-4, § 0 — Article XI-4 / Section 0
NE Const., Article XI-4
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Charter; amendment; charter convention. Such charter so ratified and adopted may be amended, or a charter convention called, by a proposal therefor made by the law-making body of such city or by the qualified electors in number not less than five per cent of the next preceding gubernatorial vote in such city, by petition filed with the council or governing authorities. The council or governing authorities shall submit the same to a vote of the qualified electors at the next general or special election not held within thirty days after such petition is filed. In submitting any such charter or charter amendments, any alternative article or section may be presented for the choice of the voters and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others. Whenever the question of a charter convention is carried by a majority of those voting thereon, a charter convention shall be called through a special election ordinance, and the same shall be constituted and held and the proposed charter submitted to a vote of the qualified electors, approved or rejected, as provided in Section two hereof. The City Clerk of said city shall publish with his official certification, for three times, a week apart in the official paper in said city, if there be one, and if there be no official paper, then in at least one newspaper, published and in general circulation in said city, the full text of any charter or charter amendment to be voted on at any general or special election. No charter or charter amendment adopted under the provisions of this amendment shall be amended or repealed except by electoral vote. And no such charter or charter amendment shall diminish the tax rate for state purposes fixed by act of the Legislature, or interfere in any wise with the collection of state taxes. Adopted in 1912.
Ne. Const. art. I-24, § 0 — Article I-24 / Section 0
NE Const., Article I-24
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Repealed 1990. Laws 1990, LR 8, sec. 1. Adopted in 1875. The original language read, "The right to be heard in all civil cases in the court of last resort, by appeal, error, or otherwise, shall not be denied."
Ne. Const. art. I-30, § 0 — Article I-30 / Section 0
NE Const., Article I-30
Status: in_force

[ edit ] Discrimination or grant of preferential treatment prohibited; public employment, public education, or public contracting; section, how construed; remedies. (1) The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. (2) This section shall apply only to action taken after the section's effective date. (3) Nothing in this section prohibits bona fide qualifications based on sex that are reasonably necessary to the normal operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. (4) Nothing in this section shall invalidate any court order or consent decree that is in force as of the effective date of this section. (5) Nothing in this section prohibits action that must be taken to establish or maintain eligibility for any federal program, if ineligibility would result in a loss of federal funds to the state. (6) For purposes of this section, state shall include, but not be limited to: (a) the State of Nebraska; (b) any agency, department, office, board, commission, committee, division, unit, branch, bureau, council, or sub-unit of the state; (c) any public institution of higher education; (d) any political subdivision of or within the state; and (e) any government institution or instrumentally of or within the state. (7) The remedies available for violations of this section shall be the same, regardless of the injured party's race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, as are otherwise available for violations of Nebraska's antidiscrimination law. (8) This section shall be self executing. If any part or parts of this section are found to be in conflict with federal law or the Constitution of the United States, this section shall be implemented to the maximum extent that federal law and the Constitution of the United States permit. Any provision held invalid shall be severable from the remaining portions of this section. Adopted in 2008.