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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-534 — NE Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-534
View Statute 14-534
Status: in_force

Before any street, avenue, alley, or thoroughfare is graded within a city of the metropolitan class, the city engineer shall make a careful and detailed estimate of the total cost of such grading, and shall report such estimate to the city council as an approximate estimate of such cost. If such estimate is approved by the city council, a contract may be let for the grading in the manner provided for letting improvement contracts, except that such contract shall not exceed in total amount the approved approximate estimate.

Laws 1921, c. 116, art. IV, § 24, p. 481;

C.S.1922, § 3650;

C.S.1929, § 14-527;

R.S.1943, § 14-534;

Laws 2022, LB800, § 185.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-513.01 — NE Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-513.01
View Statute 25-513.01
Status: in_force

An unincorporated association may be served by personal, residence, certified mail, or designated delivery service upon an officer or managing agent, or by certified mail or designated delivery service to the association at its usual place of business, or by leaving the process at its usual place of business with an employee of the unincorporated association.

Laws 1983, LB 447, § 30;

Laws 2011, LB669, § 15.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-134 — NE Code / Chapter 31 / Section 31-134
View Statute 31-134
Status: in_force

Any person or persons or association of any kind or any corporation, who shall either for himself or for another deposit within the banks, limits or right-of-way of any drain or ditch, that has been, or shall hereafter be constructed under the terms and provisions of sections 31-101 to 31-138 , or within the banks of watercourses or draws, or within any road ditches along any public highways that lead or empty into such drains or ditches, any brush, trees, hay, straw, manure or any other debris, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and shall moreover be liable in damages to any party injured.

Laws 1881, c. 51, § 27, p. 246;

Laws 1905, c. 159, § 1, p. 608;

Laws 1909, c. 142, § 1, p. 500;

Laws 1911, c. 140, § 27, p. 464;

R.S.1913, § 1751;

C.S.1922, § 1698;

C.S.1929, § 31-134;

R.S.1943, § 31-134.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 53-174 — NE Code / Chapter 53 / Section 53-174
View Statute 53-174
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of this section:

(a) Co-branded alcoholic beverage means an alcoholic liquor beverage containing the same or similar brand name, logo, or packaging as a nonalcoholic beverage;

(b) Immediately adjacent means directly touching or immediately bordering one another from above, below, or the side. Immediately adjacent does not include a separate aisle; and

(c) Retail sales floor means the part of a retailer's premises that contains goods on display that are freely accessible to the consumer.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, the holder of a retail license to sell alcoholic liquor, beer, or wine at retail for consumption off the licensed premises with a retail sales floor that is larger than two thousand five hundred square feet shall not display any co-branded alcoholic beverage immediately adjacent to any soft drink, fruit juice, bottled water, candy, or snack food portraying cartoons or youth-oriented images.

(3) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, the holder of a retail license to sell alcoholic liquor, beer, or wine at retail for consumption off the licensed premises with a retail sales floor that is two thousand five hundred square feet or smaller shall either:

(a) Not place any co-branded alcoholic beverage immediately adjacent to any soft drink, fruit juice, bottled water, candy, or snack food portraying cartoons or youth-oriented images; or

(b) Equip any such display containing any co-branded alcoholic beverage immediately adjacent to any soft drink, fruit juice, bottled water, candy, or snack food portraying cartoons or youth-oriented images with signage that indicates the product is an alcoholic beverage. Such signage shall be clearly visible to consumers, shall be not less than eight and one-half by eleven inches in size, and shall contain language substantially similar to: "This product is an alcoholic beverage available only to persons who are twenty-one years of age or older."

(4) This section does not apply to a shelf, aisle, display, or display area in which the primary items for sale contain alcoholic liquor or in an area in which persons younger than twenty-one years of age are prohibited from entering without a parent or legal guardian.

(5) The commission may cause inspection to be made on the premises of all retail licensees relating to co-branded alcoholic beverage displays, and if it is found that any such licensee is violating this section or any rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the commission pursuant to this section, the license may be suspended, canceled, or revoked after the licensee is given an opportunity to be heard in the licensee's defense.

Laws 2024, LB685, § 3.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 70-1410 — NE Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70-1410
View Statute 70-1410
Status: in_force

Any joint authority created pursuant to sections 70-1401 to 70-1423 which is itself engaged in the generation, transmission, or sale of electrical energy, at wholesale or retail, or which is itself engaged in the construction, maintenance, expansion, improvement, or operation of a power generating plant or other facility for the production or transmission of electrical energy shall comply with the restrictions contained in Chapter 70, articles 10 and 13, and the provisions of sections 70-624 to 70-680 .

Laws 1982, LB 852, § 10.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 54-2803 — NE Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54-2803
View Statute 54-2803
Status: in_force

(1) From funds available in the Livestock Growth Act Cash Fund, the Director of Agriculture may administer a grant program to assist counties designated by the director as livestock friendly counties pursuant to section 54-2802 in livestock development planning and associated public infrastructure improvements. The director shall receive applications submitted by county boards or county planning authorities for assistance under this section and award grants for any of the following eligible purposes:

(a) Strategic planning to accommodate and encourage investment in livestock production, including one or more of the following activities:

(i) Reviewing zoning and land-use regulations;

(ii) Evaluating workforce availability, educational, institutional, public infrastructure, marketing, transportation, commercial service, natural resource, and agricultural assets, and needs of the county and surrounding areas to support livestock development;

(iii) Identifying livestock development goals and opportunities for the county;

(iv) Identifying and evaluating a location or locations suitable for placement of livestock production facilities; and

(v) Developing a marketing strategy to promote and attract investment in new or expanded livestock production and related livestock service and marketing businesses within the county; and

(b) Improvements to public infrastructure to accommodate one or more livestock development projects, including modifications to roads and bridges, drainage, and sewer and water systems. An application for a grant under this subdivision shall identify specific infrastructure improvements relating to a project for the establishment, expansion, or relocation of livestock production to which the grant funds would be applied and shall include a copy of the county conditional use permit issued for the livestock operation if required by county zoning regulations.

(2) A grant award under subdivision (1)(a) of this section shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars. A grant award under subdivision (1)(b) of this section shall not exceed one-half of the unobligated balance of the Livestock Growth Act Cash Fund or two hundred thousand dollars, whichever is less.

Laws 2015, LB175, § 3.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 31-786 — NE Code / Chapter 31 / Section 31-786
View Statute 31-786
Status: in_force

For purposes of sections 31-786 to 31-793 :

(1) Filing clerk means the election commissioner or county clerk of the county in which all or the largest portion of the land area comprising a sanitary and improvement district is located;

(2) Qualified property owning voter means a person entitled to vote as provided in section 31-735 for all trustees of a sanitary and improvement district other than those which may be elected only by qualified resident voters; and

(3) Qualified resident voter means a person entitled to vote as provided in section 31-735 for all trustees of a sanitary and improvement district.

Laws 1997, LB 874, § 1;

Laws 2002, LB 176, § 4.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 23-320.10 — NE Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23-320.10
View Statute 23-320.10
Status: in_force

In any county or counties described in section 23-320.08 , where it is necessary as a condition to the construction of any flood control works or other similar works of improvement as provided in sections 23-320.08 to 23-320.12 , that the county furnish the necessary lands, rights-of-way, or easements therefor, the county board may acquire such lands, rights-of-way, or easements as may be necessary, and the board may acquire the same by purchase or by gift or by the exercise of the right of eminent domain. The procedure to condemn property shall be exercised in the manner set forth in sections 76-704 to 76-724 .

Laws 1963, c. 106, § 3, p. 433.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-4636 — NE Code / Chapter 19 / Section 19-4636
View Statute 19-4636
Status: in_force

Upon the hearing of an appeal pursuant to section 19-4635 in the district court, judgment shall be pronounced, as in ordinary cases, for the value of the gas system. The city or utility may appeal the judgment to the Supreme Court. All actions and proceedings under the Municipal Natural Gas System Condemnation Act which are heard by the district court or the Supreme Court shall be expedited for hearing and decision by the appropriate court as soon as the issues and parties are properly before such court. Such proceedings and actions shall be preferred over all other civil cases irrespective of their position on the calendar.

Laws 2002, LB 384, § 13;

Laws 2019, LB193, § 236.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 23-3557 — NE Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23-3557
23-3557
Status: in_force

In all elections at which the registered voters of hospital districts are voting on the question of issuing bonds of the district, the board of directors shall designate the polling places, prepare the form of ballot, and appoint the election officials. Ballots for early voting shall be issued by the secretary of the board of directors in the same manner as provided in the Election Act and returned to the secretary. All ballots cast at the election shall be counted by the same board. When all the ballots have been counted, the returns of such election shall be turned over to the board of directors of the district in which the election was held for the purpose of making a canvass thereof.

Laws 1967, c. 109, § 4, p. 353;

Laws 1984, LB 920, § 32;

R.S.1943, (1987), § 23-343.52;

Laws 1994, LB 76, § 548;

Laws 2005, LB 98, § 2.

Election Act, see section 32-101 .
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 70-604.04 — NE Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70-604.04
View Statute 70-604.04
Status: in_force

Interconnections of plant or system primarily for the purpose of rendering emergency or temporary electric service to another electric utility, in order to maintain adequate reserve capacity for all the electric utilities involved or to pool spare plant or system capacity, shall not in itself establish an electric utility as part of the operating area of another for purposes of sections 70-604 to 70-619 . When a district which purchases electricity for resale actually segregates its distribution system to its customers such that only a portion of its total customers normally receive the electricity transmitted by a given wholesale supplier district, that wholesale supplier district may be required to include in its operating area only that portion of the customers of the supplied district who are so indirectly supplied by electricity from that wholesale supplier district.

Laws 1967, c. 418, § 10, p. 1290;

Laws 1994, LB 76, § 578.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 2-3230.01 — NE Code / Chapter 2 / Section 2-3230.01
View Statute 2-3230.01
Status: in_force

A natural resources district having within, or partially within its boundary, the irrigation service area of an operational irrigation district, reclamation district, or public power and irrigation district, shall, prior to construction of any project within such irrigation service area that would have a direct effect upon the conveyance, distribution, use, recovery, reuse and drainage of water, obtain approval of such project by the governing board of the irrigation district, reclamation district or public power and irrigation district whose irrigation service area is so affected.

Laws 1971, LB 626, § 3.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-4804 — NE Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44-4804
View Statute 44-4804
Status: in_force

(1) No delinquency proceeding shall be commenced under the Nebraska Insurers Supervision, Rehabilitation, and Liquidation Act by anyone other than the director, and no court shall have jurisdiction to entertain, hear, or determine any proceeding commenced by any other person.

(2) No court of this state shall have jurisdiction to entertain, hear, or determine any complaint praying for the dissolution, liquidation, rehabilitation, sequestration, conservation, or receivership of any insurer or praying for an injunction or restraining order or other relief preliminary to, incidental to, or relating to such proceedings other than in accordance with the act.

(3) In addition to other grounds for jurisdiction provided by the law of this state, a court of this state having jurisdiction of the subject matter has jurisdiction over a person served pursuant to sections 25-505.01 to 25-530.08 or other applicable provisions of law in an action brought by the receiver of a domestic insurer or an alien insurer domiciled in this state:

(a) If the person served is an agent, broker, or other person who has at any time written policies of insurance for or has acted in any manner whatsoever on behalf of an insurer against which a delinquency proceeding has been instituted, in any action resulting from or incident to such a relationship with the insurer;

(b) If the person served is a reinsurer who has at any time entered into a contract of reinsurance with an insurer against which a delinquency proceeding has been instituted or is an agent or broker of or for the reinsurer, in any action on or incident to the reinsurance contract;

(c) If the person served is or has been an officer, manager, trustee, organizer, promoter, or person in a position of comparable authority or influence in an insurer against which a rehabilitation or liquidation order is in effect when the action is commenced, in any action resulting from such a relationship with the insurer;

(d) If the person served is or was at the time of the institution of the delinquency proceeding against the insurer holding assets in which the receiver claims an interest on behalf of the insurer, in any action concerning the assets; or

(e) If the person served is obligated to the insurer in any way whatsoever, in any action on or incident to the obligation.

(4) If the court on motion of any party finds that any action should as a matter of substantial justice be tried in a forum outside this state, the court may enter an appropriate order to stay further proceedings on the action in this state.

(5) All actions authorized by the act shall be brought in the district court of Lancaster County.

Laws 1989, LB 319, § 4;

Laws 1991, LB 236, § 61.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-508 — NE Code / Chapter 43 / Section 43-508
View Statute 43-508
Status: in_force

The Department of Health and Human Services shall cooperate with the state institutions for delinquent and mentally and physically handicapped children to ascertain the conditions of the home and the character and habits of the parents of a child, before his or her discharge from a state institution, and make recommendations as to the advisability of returning the child to his or her home. In case the department deems it unwise to have any such child returned to his or her former home, such state institution may, with the consent of the department, place such child into the care of the department.

Laws 1935, Spec. Sess., c. 30, § 8, p. 184;

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 43-508;

R.S.1943, § 43-508;

Laws 1989, LB 22, § 4;

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 154;

Laws 2007, LB296, § 113.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 42-804 — NE Code / Chapter 42 / Section 42-804
View Statute 42-804
Status: in_force

Each county court and district court shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by the Conciliation Court Law and while sitting in the exercise of such jurisdiction shall be known and referred to as the conciliation court. All petitions and filings shall be made with the clerk of the district court and may be heard by the county court or the district court as provided in section 25-2740 .

Laws 1965, c. 228, § 4, p. 655;

Laws 1997, LB 229, § 23.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2219 — NE Code / Chapter 30 / Section 30-2219
View Statute 30-2219
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise specifically provided in this code or by rule, every document filed with the court under this code including applications, petitions, and demands for notice, shall be deemed to include an oath, affirmation, or statement to the effect that its representations are true as far as the person executing or filing it knows or is informed. Any person who willfully falsifies any such representation shall be guilty of perjury and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as provided by section 28-915 .

Laws 1974, LB 354, § 19, UPC § 1-310;

Laws 1978, LB 748, § 25.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-1139 — NE Code / Chapter 43 / Section 79-1139
79-1139
Status: in_force

Each school district shall include only students identified and verified pursuant to sections 79-1137 and 79-1138 in special education programs and shall not provide special education services pursuant to the Special Education Act to any child who has not been so identified and verified.

Laws 1986, LB 942, § 3;

R.S.Supp.,1986, § 43-605.02;

Laws 1987, LB 367, § 18;

R.S.1943, (1994), § 79-3318;

Laws 1996, LB 900, § 821;

Laws 2019, LB675, § 31.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-376 — NE Code / Chapter 28 / Section 28-376
View Statute 28-376
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall establish and maintain an Adult Protective Services Central Registry which shall contain any substantiated report regarding a person who has allegedly abused, neglected, or exploited a vulnerable adult.

(2) Upon request, a vulnerable adult who is the subject of a report or, if the vulnerable adult is legally incapacitated, the guardian or guardian ad litem of the vulnerable adult and the person who has allegedly abused, neglected, or exploited the vulnerable adult shall be entitled to receive a copy of all information contained in the registry pertaining to such report. The department shall not release data that would be harmful or detrimental to the vulnerable adult or that would identify or locate a person who, in good faith, made a report or cooperated in a subsequent investigation unless ordered to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction.

(3) The department shall establish classifications for all cases in the registry.

(4) The department shall determine whether a name-change order received from the clerk of a district court pursuant to section 25-21,271 is for a person on the Adult Protective Services Central Registry and, if so, shall include the changed name with the former name in the registry and file or cross-reference the information under both names.

Laws 1988, LB 463, § 29;

Laws 2010, LB147, § 2;

Laws 2012, LB1051, § 14.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1018 — NE Code / Chapter 28 / Section 28-1018
View Statute 28-1018
Status: in_force

(1) A person, other than an animal control facility, animal rescue, or animal shelter, who sells a puppy or kitten under eight weeks of age without its mother is guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.

(2) For purposes of this section:

(a) Animal control facility means a facility operated by the state or any political subdivision of the state for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized, stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals;

(b) Animal rescue means a person or group of persons who hold themselves out as an animal rescue, accept or solicit for dogs or cats with the intention of finding permanent adoptive homes or providing lifelong care for such dogs or cats, or who use foster homes as defined in section 54-626 as the primary means of housing dogs or cats; and

(c) Animal shelter means a facility used to house or contain dogs or cats and owned, operated, or maintained by an incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, and humane treatment of such animals.

Laws 2003, LB 17, § 5;

Laws 2006, LB 856, § 12;

Laws 2010, LB910, § 1.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-365.06 — NE Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-365.06
View Statute 14-365.06
Status: in_force

For the purpose of owning, operating, constructing, and equipping a sewage disposal plant and sewerage system, including any storm sewer system, or improving or extending such existing system, as provided in section 14-365.01 , or for the purpose stated in sections 14-365.01 to 14-365.05 , any city of the metropolitan class is also authorized to issue and sell general obligation bonds of such city upon compliance with section 14-365.07 . Such bonds shall not be sold or exchanged for less than the par value of such bonds and shall bear interest payable semiannually. The city council shall have the power to determine the denominations of such bonds, and the date, time, and manner of payment.

Laws 1953, c. 24, § 6, p. 101;

Laws 1969, c. 51, § 18, p. 283;

Laws 2022, LB800, § 72.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 39-1345.02 — NE Code / Chapter 39 / Section 39-1345.02
View Statute 39-1345.02
Status: in_force

A contractor shall not be held responsible, either during construction or after construction is completed, for damages which may result from or be due to inadequate, faulty, or insufficient design, plans, or specifications.

Laws 1969, c. 310, § 2, p. 1115.

This section provides an exception to section 39-1345.01 wherein, if contractors follow specifications provided, but those specifications are inadequate, faulty, or insufficient and so the traveling public still damages public works despite the implementation of the specifications, the contractors will not be liable for the damages to the actual construction project. The definition of damages found in section 39-1345.01 limiting damages to only those caused to an actual construction project also applies to the word "damages" as it appears in this section. Slagle v. J.P. Theisen & Sons, 251 Neb. 904, 560 N.W.2d 759 (1997).

This section provides an exception to section 39-1345.01 wherein, if contractors follow specifications provided, but those specifications are inadequate, faulty, or insufficient and so the traveling public still damages public works despite the implementation of the specifications, the contractors will not be liable for the damages to the actual construction project. The definition of damages found in section 39-1345.01 limiting damages to only those caused to an actual construction project also applies to the word "damages" as it appears in this section. Slagle v. J.P. Theisen & Sons, 251 Neb. 904, 560 N.W.2d 759 (1997).