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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 46-1217 — NE Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46-1217
View Statute 46-1217
Status: in_force

(1) There is hereby created a Water Well Standards and Contractors' Licensing Board. The board shall be composed of ten members, six of whom shall be appointed by the Governor as follows: (a) A licensed water well contractor representing irrigation water well contractors, (b) a licensed water well contractor representing domestic water well contractors, (c) a licensed water well contractor representing municipal and industrial water well contractors, (d) a licensed pump installation contractor, (e) a manufacturer or supplier of water well or pumping equipment, and (f) a holder of a license issued under the Water Well Standards and Contractors' Practice Act employed by a natural resources district. The chief executive officer of the Department of Health and Human Services or his or her designated representative, the Director of Water, Energy, and Environment or his or her designated representative, and the director of the Conservation and Survey Division of the University of Nebraska or his or her designated representative shall also serve as members of the board.

(2) Each member shall be a resident of the state. Each industry representative shall have had at least five years of experience in the business of his or her category prior to appointment and shall be actively engaged in such business at the time of appointment and while serving on the board. Each member representing a category subject to licensing under the Water Well Standards and Contractors' Practice Act shall be licensed by the department pursuant to such act. In making appointments, the Governor may consider recommendations made by the trade associations of each category.

Laws 1986, LB 310, § 17;

Laws 1993, LB 3, § 32;

Laws 1993, LB 131, § 42;

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 266;

Laws 2000, LB 900, § 235;

Laws 2006, LB 508, § 5;

Laws 2007, LB296, § 209;

Laws 2007, LB463, § 1155;

Laws 2019, LB302, § 48;

Laws 2025, LB317, § 262.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-217 — NE Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44-217
View Statute 44-217
Status: in_force

Each person, corporation, association, partnership, or limited liability company owning a policy or policies of insurance issued by a mutual company or an assessment association shall be a member thereof and have one vote.

Laws 1913, c. 154, § 83, p. 429;

R.S.1913, § 3220;

Laws 1919, c. 190, tit. V, art. V, § 6, p. 610;

C.S.1922, § 7819;

C.S.1929, § 44-406;

R.S.1943, § 44-217;

Laws 1989, LB 92, § 63;

Laws 1993, LB 121, § 220.

The provision that guarantees full rights of subscription to the members of a mutual insurance company, transformed into a stock company, refers to the policyholders of the former mutual company. Leininger v. North Am. Nat. Life Ins. Co., 115 Neb. 801, 215 N.W. 167 (1927).

The provision that guarantees full rights of subscription to the members of a mutual insurance company, transformed into a stock company, refers to the policyholders of the former mutual company. Leininger v. North Am. Nat. Life Ins. Co., 115 Neb. 801, 215 N.W. 167 (1927).
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 15-112 — NE Code / Chapter 15 / Section 15-112
View Statute 15-112
Status: in_force

If at an election held pursuant to section 15-111 a majority of the vote cast in a city of the second class or village shall be in favor of consolidation, the result shall be certified to the city council of the city of the primary class. If the city council of such city of the primary class approves of the consolidation, an ordinance shall be passed extending the limits of such city to include all the territory of the city of the second class or village voting for consolidation, and the city or cities, village or villages, so consolidated with the city of the primary class shall become a part thereof.

Laws 1921, c. 202, § 2, p. 730;

C.S.1922, § 3791;

C.S.1929, § 15-112;

R.S.1943, § 15-112;

Laws 2020, LB1003, § 15.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-255 — NE Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16-255
View Statute 16-255
Status: in_force

A city of the first class may plan, initiate, operate, maintain, administer funding for, and evaluate facilities, programs, and services designed to meet the needs of elderly persons. Such city may contract with state agencies, political subdivisions, and private nonprofit agencies to exercise and carry out such powers.

Laws 1991, LB 810, § 1.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 2-3234.07 — NE Code / Chapter 2 / Section 2-3234.07
View Statute 2-3234.07
Status: in_force

Acquisition of private real property, or an interest therein, and any utilization of eminent domain approved under sections 2-3234.02 to 2-3234.09 to establish a proposed trail shall be conducted in the manner and subject to the requirements provided in sections 25-2501 to 25-2506 and 76-701 to 76-726 .

Laws 2010, LB1010, § 6.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 46-648 — NE Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46-648
View Statute 46-648
Status: in_force

The use of ground water pursuant to a permit granted by the Chief Water Officer under the Municipal and Rural Domestic Ground Water Transfers Permit Act shall be subject to and governed by section 46-613 .

Laws 1963, c. 276, § 11, p. 832;

Laws 2000, LB 900, § 185;

Laws 2025, LB317, § 185.

Use of ground water pursuant to a permit is governed by section 46-613. Metropolitan Utilities Dist. v. Merritt Beach Co., 179 Neb. 783, 140 N.W.2d 626 (1966).

Use of ground water pursuant to a permit is governed by section 46-613. Metropolitan Utilities Dist. v. Merritt Beach Co., 179 Neb. 783, 140 N.W.2d 626 (1966).
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-3132 — NE Code / Chapter 71 / Section 38-3132
38-3132
Status: in_force

(1) No monetary liability and no cause of action shall arise against any psychologist for failing to warn of and protect from a client's or patient's threatened violent behavior or failing to predict and warn of and protect from a client's or patient's violent behavior except when the client or patient has communicated to the psychologist a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or victims.

(2) The duty to warn of or to take reasonable precautions to provide protection from violent behavior shall arise only under the limited circumstances specified in subsection (1) of this section. The duty shall be discharged by the psychologist if reasonable efforts are made to communicate the threat to the victim or victims and to a law enforcement agency.

(3) No monetary liability and no cause of action shall arise against any person who is a psychologist for a confidence disclosed to third parties in an effort to discharge a duty arising under subsection (1) of this section in accordance with subsection (2) of this section.

Laws 1994, LB 1210, § 92;

R.S.1943, (2003), § 71-1,206.30;

Laws 2007, LB463, § 1066.

A psychologist is not liable for failing to warn of a patient's threatened violent behavior where the patient communicated a serious threat of physical violence to persons at random in a city with 300,000 or more inhabitants. Holloway v. State, 293 Neb. 12, 875 N.W.2d 435 (2016).

A psychologist is not liable for failing to warn of a patient's threatened violent behavior where the patient communicated a serious threat of physical violence to persons at random in a city with 300,000 or more inhabitants. Holloway v. State, 293 Neb. 12, 875 N.W.2d 435 (2016).
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 8-324 — NE Code / Chapter 8 / Section 8-324
View Statute 8-324
Status: in_force

Any association, at the discretion of its officers and directors, and with the consent and approval of the Department of Banking and Finance, may accept its stock at the withdrawal value of such shares, to apply on the purchase at its fair market value, of any real estate owned by such association, or to apply in payment or reduction of any loans or contracts of sale on which, in the judgment of the officers and directors, there may be an eventual loss, whether or not notice for withdrawal of such shares shall have been filed, and such action shall not be considered prejudicial to the rights of any stockholders to whom payment on withdrawal notices is being delayed.

Laws 1933, c. 25, § 1, p. 199;

Laws 1935, c. 14, § 3, p. 86;

Laws 1937, c. 14, § 1, p. 120;

Laws 1941, c. 90, § 32, p. 359;

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 8-309;

Laws 1943, c. 14, § 1(6), p. 80;

R.S.1943, § 8-324.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-504.01 — NE Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-504.01
View Statute 25-504.01
Status: in_force

A copy of the complaint shall be served with the summons, except when service is by publication. The plaintiff shall deliver to the clerk sufficient copies of the complaint at the time it is filed.

Laws 1983, LB 447, § 21;

Laws 2002, LB 876, § 14.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 53-123.18 — NE Code / Chapter 53 / Section 53-123.18
View Statute 53-123.18
Status: in_force

(1) The commission may issue a license to any person providing special party bus service under a certificate of public convenience and necessity granted by the Public Service Commission when the person allows the consumption of alcoholic liquor in its special party bus by an individual who is twenty-one years of age or older. Each licensee shall keep a duplicate of such license in each special party bus where such alcoholic liquor is consumed.

(2) Each license shall expire on April 30 of each year. Each license shall be good throughout this state as a state license. Only one license shall be required for all special party buses operated in this state by the same owner. No further license shall be required or tax levied by any county, city, or village for the privilege of allowing consumption of alcoholic liquor in such buses.

Laws 2020, LB734, § 6.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-910 — NE Code / Chapter 17 / Section 17-910
View Statute 17-910
Status: in_force

Two or more cities of the second class or villages may jointly erect a power plant, electric or other light works as provided in section 17-906 which shall serve such respective cities or villages, and such power plant, electric or other light works may be owned and operated jointly by such respective cities or villages. Such cities or villages shall have the same rights and privileges as are in sections 17-906 to 17-909 granted to any single city or village. Before such cities or villages shall make any contract with any person or corporation relating in any manner whatever to the erection of such proposed power plant, electric or other light works, the question as to whether such jointly owned and operated power plant, electric or other light works shall be erected shall first be duly submitted to the electors of the respective cities or villages contemplating the erection of such power plant, electric or other light works and be approved by a sixty percent majority of the voters in each of such cities or villages in the manner provided in section 17-908 .

Laws 1921, c. 192, § 2, p. 712;

C.S.1922, § 4395;

C.S.1929, § 17-602;

R.S.1943, § 17-910;

Laws 2017, LB133, § 246.

Electric or other light works may be constructed by a municipality outside its corporate limits. Interstate Power Co. v. City of Ainsworth, 125 Neb. 419, 250 N.W. 649 (1933).

Electric or other light works may be constructed by a municipality outside its corporate limits. Interstate Power Co. v. City of Ainsworth, 125 Neb. 419, 250 N.W. 649 (1933).
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-313 — NE Code / Chapter 71 / Section 38-313
38-313
Status: in_force

(1) A person may apply for a license as an alcohol and drug counselor if he or she meets the requirements provided in section 38-316 .

(2) A person may apply for a license as a provisional alcohol and drug counselor which permits such person to practice and acquire the supervised clinical work experience required for licensure as an alcohol and drug counselor. Provisional status may be granted once and held for a time period not to exceed six years, except that if an individual does not complete the supervised clinical work experience required for licensure within the specified six-year period due to unforeseen circumstances as determined by the department, with the recommendation of the board, the individual may apply for one additional provisional license. An individual who is so licensed shall not render services without clinical supervision. An individual who holds provisional licensure shall inform all clients that he or she holds a provisional certification and is practicing under supervision and shall identify the supervisor. An applicant shall meet the requirements provided in section 38-314 .

Laws 2004, LB 1083, § 118;

R.S.Supp.,2006, § 71-1,354;

Laws 2007, LB463, § 164.

Credentialing, general requirements and issuance procedures, see section 38-121 et seq.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 64-316 — NE Code / Chapter 64 / Section 64-316
View Statute 64-316
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to insure the integrity, security, and authenticity of electronic notarizations in accordance with the Electronic Notary Public Act. Such rules and regulations shall include procedures for the approval of electronic notary solution providers by the Secretary of State. In addition, the Secretary of State may require an electronic notary public to create and to maintain a record, journal, or entry of each electronic notarial act.

Laws 2016, LB465, § 16.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-1506 — NE Code / Chapter 37 / Section 37-1506
View Statute 37-1506
Status: in_force

The commission shall promote the harvesting of deer by hunters and the donation of deer at meat processors participating in the program to the extent that money is available in the Hunters Helping the Hungry Cash Fund.

Laws 2012, LB928, § 10.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-1429.02 — NE Code / Chapter 28 / Section 28-1429.02
View Statute 28-1429.02
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, it shall be unlawful to dispense cigarettes, other tobacco products, electronic nicotine delivery systems, or alternative nicotine products from a vending machine or similar device. Any person violating this section is guilty of a Class III misdemeanor. In addition, upon conviction for a second offense, the court shall order a six-month suspension of the offender's license to sell tobacco and electronic nicotine delivery systems, if any, and, upon conviction for a third or subsequent offense, the court shall order the permanent revocation of the offender's license to sell tobacco and electronic nicotine delivery systems, if any.

(2) Cigarettes, other tobacco products, electronic nicotine delivery systems, or alternative nicotine products may be dispensed from a vending machine or similar device when such machine or device is located in an area, office, business, plant, or factory which is not open to the general public or on the licensed premises of any establishment having a license issued under the Nebraska Liquor Control Act for the sale of alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises when such machine or device is located in the same room in which the alcoholic liquor is dispensed.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict or prohibit a governing body of a city or village from establishing and enforcing ordinances at least as stringent as or more stringent than the provisions of this section.

Laws 1992, LB 130, § 2;

Laws 2014, LB863, § 21;

Laws 2019, LB149, § 11;

Laws 2019, LB397, § 10.

Nebraska Liquor Control Act, see section 53-101 .
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-1313 — NE Code / Chapter 38 / Section 38-1313
View Statute 38-1313
Status: in_force

The department shall establish and collect fees for credentialing under the Environmental Health Specialists Practice Act as provided in sections 38-151 to 38-157 .

Laws 2007, LB463, § 534.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-1506 — NE Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13-1506
View Statute 13-1506
Status: in_force

An agreement shall be subject to revocation by any party to the agreement upon six months' notice to the other unless a different period of time is provided for the agreement. No agreement may provide for a notice period for revocation in excess of five years.

Laws 1989, LB 508, § 6.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 46-726 — NE Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46-726
46-726
Status: in_force

(1) Within one hundred eighty days after the designation of a management area or the requiring of an action plan for a management area, a purpose of which is protection of water quality, the district or districts within whose boundaries the area is located shall prepare an action plan designed to stabilize or reduce the level and prevent the increase or spread of ground water contamination. Whenever a management area or the affected area of such a management area encompasses portions of two or more districts, the responsibilities and authorities delegated in this section shall be exercised jointly and uniformly by agreement of the respective boards of all districts so affected.

(2) Within thirty days after an action plan has been prepared, a public hearing on such plan shall be held by the district. Notice of the hearing shall be given as provided in section 46-743 , and the hearing shall be conducted in accordance with such section.

(3) Within thirty days after the hearing, the district shall adopt and submit an action plan to the department. Notice of the district's order adopting an action plan shall be published as required by section 46-744 .

Laws 1986, LB 894, § 7;

Laws 1991, LB 51, § 11;

R.S.1943, (1993), § 46-674.08;

Laws 1996, LB 108, § 46;

Laws 2000, LB 900, § 202;

R.S.Supp.,2002, § 46-656.40;

Laws 2004, LB 962, § 66;

Laws 2019, LB302, § 35;

Laws 2025, LB317, § 225.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-2609 — NE Code / Chapter 38 / Section 38-2609
View Statute 38-2609
Status: in_force

(1) In addition to the standards set by the board pursuant to section 38-126 , an applicant for licensure based on a license in another state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia must have been actively engaged in the practice of optometry for at least two of the three years immediately preceding the application for licensure in Nebraska and must provide satisfactory evidence of being credentialed in such other jurisdiction at a level with requirements that are at least as stringent as or more stringent than the requirements for the comparable credential being applied for in this state.

(2) An applicant who is a military spouse may apply for a temporary license as provided in section 38-129.01 .

Laws 2007, LB463, § 881;

Laws 2008, LB972, § 1;

Laws 2017, LB88, § 84.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-3508.03 — NE Code / Chapter 71 / Section 71-3508.03
View Statute 71-3508.03
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall establish by rule and regulation annual fees for the radioactive materials licenses, for inspections of radioactive materials, for the registration and inspection of radiation-generating equipment and other sources of radiation, and for radon measurement and mitigation business licenses and inspections of radon mitigation systems installations under the Radiation Control Act. The annual fee for registration and inspection of X-ray radiation generating equipment used to diagnose conditions in humans or animals shall not exceed four hundred dollars per X-ray machine. The department shall also establish by rule and regulation additional fees for environmental surveillance activities performed by the department to assess the radiological impact of activities conducted by licensees and registrants. Such activities shall not duplicate surveillance programs approved by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission and conducted by entities licensed by such commission. No fee shall exceed the actual cost to the department for administering the act. The fees collected shall be remitted to the State Treasurer for credit to the Health and Human Services Cash Fund and shall be used solely for the purpose of defraying the direct and indirect costs of administering the act. The department shall collect such fees.

(2) The department may, upon application by an interested person or on its own initiative, grant such exemptions from the requirements of this section as it determines are in the public interest. Applications for exemption under this subsection may include, but shall not be limited to, the use of licensed materials for educational or noncommercial displays or scientific collections.

(3) When a registrant or licensee fails to pay the applicable fee, the department may suspend or revoke the registration or license or may issue an appropriate order.

(4) The department shall establish and collect fees for licenses for individuals engaged in radon detection, measurement, and mitigation as provided in sections 38-151 to 38-157 .

Laws 1987, LB 390, § 11;

Laws 1990, LB 1064, § 20;

Laws 1993, LB 536, § 85;

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 654;

Laws 2002, LB 1021, § 73;

Laws 2003, LB 242, § 114;

Laws 2007, LB296 § 569;

Laws 2007, LB463, § 1212;

Laws 2008, LB928, § 27.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-708 — NE Code / Chapter 43 / Section 43-708
View Statute 43-708
Status: in_force

No official, agent, or representative of the Department of Health and Human Services shall, by virtue of sections 43-701 to 43-709 , have any right to enter any home over the objection of the occupants thereof or to take charge of any child over the objection of the parents, or either of them, or of the person standing in loco parentis or having the custody of such child. Nothing in sections 43-701 to 43-709 shall be construed as limiting the power of a parent or guardian to determine what treatment or correction shall be provided for a child or the agency or agencies to be employed for such purposes.

Laws 1933, c. 123, § 4, p. 496;

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 81-5717;

R.S.1943, § 81-618;

Laws 1945, c. 170, § 8, p. 547;

Laws 1961, c. 204, § 12, p. 616;

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 180;

Laws 1997, LB 307, § 74.

This section does not provide an agency standing in loco parentis with an affirmative right to inflict corporal punishment upon children residing in licensed child-caring facilities; it simply limits the Department of Social Services' power to forcibly remove a child from the home of his parents or guardian, or one standing in loco parentis prior to state intervention in the parent-child relationship. Cornhusker Christian Ch. Home v. Dept. of Soc. Servs., 227 Neb. 94, 416 N.W.2d 551 (1987).

This section does not provide an agency standing in loco parentis with an affirmative right to inflict corporal punishment upon children residing in licensed child-caring facilities; it simply limits the Department of Social Services' power to forcibly remove a child from the home of his parents or guardian, or one standing in loco parentis prior to state intervention in the parent-child relationship. Cornhusker Christian Ch. Home v. Dept. of Soc. Servs., 227 Neb. 94, 416 N.W.2d 551 (1987).
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 8-1503 — NE Code / Chapter 8 / Section 8-1503
View Statute 8-1503
Status: in_force

Within ten days after receipt of notice of disapproval pursuant to section 8-1502 , the acquiring party may request an agency hearing on the proposed acquisition. At such hearing, all issues shall be determined on the record pursuant to the administrative rules of procedure and the rules and regulations as may be issued by the Department of Banking and Finance in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. At the conclusion of such hearing, the Director of Banking and Finance shall by order approve or disapprove the proposed acquisition on the basis of the record made at such hearing.

Laws 1983, LB 240, § 3;

Laws 2003, LB 217, § 25.

Administrative Procedure Act, see section 84-920 .