FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-2613 — NE Code / Chapter 38 / Section 38-2613
View Statute 38-2613
Status: in_force

(1) An optometrist licensed in this state may use topical ocular pharmaceutical agents for diagnostic purposes authorized under subdivision (1)(b) of section 38-2605 , if such person is certified by the department, with the recommendation of the board, as qualified to use topical ocular pharmaceutical agents for diagnostic purposes.

(2) Such certification shall require (a) satisfactory completion of a pharmacology course at an institution accredited by an accrediting organization which is recognized by the United States Department of Education and approved by the board and passage of an examination approved by the board or (b) evidence provided by the optometrist of certification in another state for use of diagnostic pharmaceutical agents which is deemed by the board as satisfactory validation of such qualifications.

Laws 1979, LB 9, § 5;

Laws 1986, LB 131, § 3;

Laws 1987, LB 116, § 2;

Laws 1988, LB 1100, § 41;

Laws 1994, LB 987, § 1;

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 439;

Laws 1998, LB 369, § 5;

Laws 1999, LB 828, § 96;

Laws 2003, LB 242, § 50;

R.S.1943, (2003), § 71-1,135.02;

Laws 2007, LB236, § 23;

Laws 2007, LB247, § 73;

Laws 2007, LB296, § 341;

Laws 2007, LB463, § 885;

Laws 2021, LB528, § 9.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-3924 — NE Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29-3924
View Statute 29-3924
Status: in_force

The commission shall consist of nine members appointed by the Governor from a list of attorneys submitted by the executive council of the Nebraska State Bar Association after consultation with the board of directors of the Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association. A member shall be appointed from each of the six Supreme Court judicial districts, and three members shall be appointed at large. The executive council of the Nebraska State Bar Association shall ensure that the selection process promotes appointees who are independent from partisan political influence. To be eligible for appointment, a person shall be a member of the Nebraska State Bar Association who has substantial experience in criminal defense work and, for appointments made after September 13, 1997, substantial experience in civil legal matters that commonly affect low-income persons and, at the time of selection or at any time during the term of office, shall not be a prosecutor, law enforcement official, or judge. All members shall be committed to the principle of providing indigent defense services and civil legal services to low-income persons free from unwarranted judicial or political influence. Each member shall serve for a term of six years, except that three of the initial appointees shall serve terms of two years and three shall serve terms of four years as designated by the Governor. Members may be removed from the commission by the Governor for cause.

Laws 1995, LB 646, § 6;

Laws 1997, LB 729, § 7.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-509 — NE Code / Chapter 28 / Section 28-509
View Statute 28-509
Status: in_force

As used in sections 28-509 to 28-518 , unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) Deprive shall mean:

(a) To withhold property of another permanently or for so extended a period as to appropriate a major portion of its economic value, or with intent to restore only upon payment of reward or other compensation; or

(b) To dispose of the property of another so as to create a substantial risk that the owner will not recover it in the condition it was when the actor obtained it;

(2) Financial institution shall mean a bank, insurance company, credit union, building and loan association, investment trust, or other organization held out to the public as a place of deposit of funds or medium of savings or collective investment;

(3) Movable property shall mean property the location of which can be changed, including things growing on, affixed to, or found in land, and documents although the rights represented thereby may have no physical location. Immovable property shall mean all other property;

(4) Obtain shall mean:

(a) In relation to property, to bring about a transfer or purported transfer of a legal interest in the property, whether to the obtainer or another; or

(b) In relation to labor or service, to secure performance thereof;

(5) Property shall mean anything of value, including real estate, tangible and intangible personal property, contract rights, credit cards, charge plates, or any other instrument which purports to evidence an undertaking to pay for property or services delivered or rendered to or upon the order of a designated person or bearer, choses in action and other interests in or claims to wealth, admission or transportation tickets, captured or domestic animals, food and drink, and electric or other power;

(6) Property of another shall mean property in which any person other than the actor has an interest which the actor is not privileged to infringe, regardless of the fact that the actor also has an interest in the property and regardless of the fact that the other person might be precluded from civil recovery because the property was used in an unlawful transaction or was subject to forfeiture as contraband. Property in possession of the actor shall not be deemed property of another who has only a security interest therein, even if legal title is in the creditor pursuant to a conditional sales contract or other security agreement;

(7) Receiving shall mean acquiring possession, control, or title, or lending on the security of the property; and

(8) Stolen shall mean property which has been the subject of theft or robbery or a vehicle which is received from a person who is then in violation of section 28-517 .

Laws 1977, LB 38, § 108;

Laws 1982, LB 126, § 1.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-528 — NE Code / Chapter 37 / Section 37-528
View Statute 37-528
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of this section, drug means any chemical substance, other than food, that affects the structure or biological function of any wildlife under the jurisdiction of the commission.

(2) Except with written authorization from the secretary of the commission or his or her designee or as otherwise provided by law, a person shall not administer a drug to any wildlife under the jurisdiction of the commission, including, but not limited to, a drug used for fertility control, disease prevention or treatment, immobilization, or growth stimulation.

(3) This section does not prohibit the treatment of wildlife to prevent disease or the treatment of sick or injured wildlife by a licensed veterinarian, a holder of a federal migrating bird rehabilitation permit, a holder of a permit regulated under the authority of section 37-316 , a holder of a permit regulated under the authority of section 37-4,106 , or a holder of a license regulated under the authority of section 37-4,108 .

(4) This section shall not be construed to limit employees of agencies of the state or the United States or employees of an animal control facility, animal rescue, or animal shelter licensed under section 54-627 in the performance of their official duties related to public health or safety, wildlife management, or wildlife removal, except that a drug shall not be administered by any person for fertility control or growth stimulation except as provided in subsection (2) of this section.

(5) A conservation officer may take possession or dispose of any wildlife under the jurisdiction of the commission that the officer reasonably believes has been administered a drug in violation of this section.

(6) A person who violates this section is guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor.

Laws 2009, LB105, § 33;

Laws 2010, LB910, § 2.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-402 — NE Code / Chapter 38 / Section 38-402
View Statute 38-402
Status: in_force

For purposes of the Athletic Training Practice Act and elsewhere in the Uniform Credentialing Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions found in sections 38-404 to 38-407.02 apply.

Laws 1986, LB 355, § 1;

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 477;

Laws 1999, LB 178, § 2;

Laws 1999, LB 828, § 140;

Laws 2003, LB 242, § 65;

R.S.1943, (2003), § 71-1,238;

Laws 2007, LB296, § 359;

Laws 2007, LB463, § 174;

Laws 2022, LB436, § 2.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-373 — NE Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44-373
View Statute 44-373
Status: in_force

Whenever a corporation, organized under the laws of this state, has heretofore caused or shall hereafter cause the life of any director, officer, agent or employee to be insured, or whenever such corporation is named as a beneficiary in, or assignee of, any policy of life insurance, due authority to assign, release, relinquish, convert, surrender, change the beneficiary, or to take any other or different action with reference to such insurance, shall be sufficiently evidenced to the insurance company by a written statement that the same has been approved by a majority of the board of directors, which statement shall be signed by the president and the secretary, or other corresponding officer, of such corporation, under its corporate seal. Such statement shall be binding upon such corporation, and shall protect the insurance company concerned in any act done or suffered by it upon the faith thereof without further inquiry into the validity of the corporate authority or the regularity of the corporate proceedings. No person shall be disqualified, by reason of interest in the subject matter, from acting as a director or as a member of the executive committee of such corporation on any corporate act touching such insurance.

Laws 1927, c. 137, § 1, p. 378;

C.S.1929, § 44-1123;

R.S.1943, § 44-373.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-925 — NE Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13-925
View Statute 13-925
Status: in_force

Nothing in the Political Subdivisions Tort Claims Act and sections 16-727 , 16-728 , 23-175 , 39-809 , and 79-610 shall be construed to prevent a political subdivision from bringing an action for recovery from an employee of the political subdivision when the political subdivision has made payment of an award or settlement growing out of the employee's act or omission under such act and sections.

Laws 1969, c. 138, § 19, p. 634;

R.S.1943, (1983), § 23-2419;

Laws 1996, LB 900, § 1033.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-6137 — NE Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44-6137
View Statute 44-6137
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in the Mutual Insurance Holding Company Act shall be construed to prohibit demutualization of a mutual insurance holding company pursuant to the Insurers Demutualization Act.

Laws 1997, LB 740, § 16.

Insurers Demutualization Act, see section 44-6101 .
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 3-309 — NE Code / Chapter 3 / Section 3-309
View Statute 3-309
Status: in_force

All airport zoning regulations adopted under the Airport Zoning Act shall be reasonable and not impose any requirement or restriction which is not reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of the act. In determining what regulations it may adopt, each political subdivision and joint airport zoning board shall consider, among other things, the character of the flying operations expected to be conducted at the airport, the nature of the terrain within the airport hazard area, the character of the neighborhood, and the uses to which the property to be zoned is put and adaptable. If an airport layout plan has been submitted for approval to the Federal Aviation Administration with a proposed instrument runway depicted thereon and such airport layout plan is conditionally or unconditionally approved without such proposed instrument runway, the political subdivision shall adopt or revise, as necessary, airport zoning regulations to protect any approach zone for a visual runway only.

Laws 1945, c. 233, § 6(1), p. 685;

Laws 2013, LB140, § 9.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-1988 — NE Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21-1988
View Statute 21-1988
Status: in_force

(a) A corporation may not lend money to or guaranty the obligation of a director or officer of the corporation.

(b) The fact that a loan or guaranty is made in violation of this section does not affect the borrower's liability on the loan.

Laws 1996, LB 681, § 88.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 20-412 — NE Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20-412
View Statute 20-412
Status: in_force

(1) Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act shall not constitute, for any purpose, a suicide or homicide.

(2) The making of a declaration pursuant to section 20-404 shall not affect the sale, procurement, or issuance of a policy of life insurance or annuity or affect, impair, or modify the terms of an existing policy of life insurance or annuity. A policy of life insurance or annuity shall not be legally impaired or invalidated by the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an insured, notwithstanding any term to the contrary.

(3) No person shall prohibit or require the execution of a declaration as a condition to being insured for or receiving health care services. No insurance company or health care provider shall charge a higher or lower rate for signers of declarations under the act as opposed to nonsigners.

(4) The act shall create no presumption concerning the intention of an individual who has revoked or has not executed a declaration with respect to the use, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the event of a terminal condition.

(5) The act shall not affect the right of a patient to make decisions regarding use of life-sustaining treatment so long as the patient is able to do so or impair or supersede a right or responsibility that a person has to effect the withholding or withdrawal of medical care.

(6) The act shall not require a physician or other health care provider to take action contrary to reasonable medical standards.

(7) The act shall not confer any new rights regarding the provision or rejection of any specific medical treatment and shall not alter any existing laws concerning homicide, suicide, or assisted suicide. Nothing in the act shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve homicide, suicide, or assisted suicide.

Laws 1992, LB 671, § 12.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-1224 — NE Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25-1224
View Statute 25-1224
Status: in_force

(1) A subpoena commanding a person to appear and testify at a trial or deposition may command that at the same time and place specified in the subpoena for the person to appear and testify, the person must produce designated documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things in the person's possession, custody, or control. The scope of a command to produce documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things pursuant to this section is governed by the rules of discovery in civil cases.

(2) The Supreme Court may promulgate a rule for discovery in civil cases that specifies the procedures to be followed when a party seeks to serve a deposition subpoena that commands the person to produce designated documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things in the person's possession, custody, or control. Any such rule shall not conflict with the laws governing such matters.

R.S.1867, Code § 351, p. 452;

R.S.1913, § 7916;

C.S.1922, § 8858;

C.S.1929, § 20-1224;

R.S.1943, § 25-1224;

Laws 2017, LB509, § 2;

Laws 2020, LB912, § 13.

A DNA sample is not documentary in nature and is not discoverable under this section. State v. McKinney, 273 Neb. 346, 730 N.W.2d 74 (2007).

A DNA sample is not documentary in nature and is not discoverable under this section. State v. McKinney, 273 Neb. 346, 730 N.W.2d 74 (2007).

A subpoena duces tecum for trial imposes a duty upon the witness to bring with him sought-after matter under his control that the law requires him to produce as evidence. City of Omaha v. American Theater Corp., 189 Neb. 441, 203 N.W.2d 155 (1973).

A subpoena duces tecum for trial imposes a duty upon the witness to bring with him sought-after matter under his control that the law requires him to produce as evidence. City of Omaha v. American Theater Corp., 189 Neb. 441, 203 N.W.2d 155 (1973).
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-327 — NE Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60-327
View Statute 60-327
Status: in_force

Film vehicle means any motor vehicle or trailer used exclusively by a nonresident production company temporarily on location in Nebraska producing a feature film, television commercial, documentary, or industrial or educational videotape production.

Laws 2005, LB 274, § 27.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-2313 — NE Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21-2313
View Statute 21-2313
Status: in_force

The corporation shall be a nonprofit corporation and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit of any individual, firm, or corporation, except that in the event the board of directors determines that sufficient provision has been made for the full payment of the expenses, bonds, and other obligations of the corporation, any net earnings of the corporation thereafter accruing shall be paid to the local political subdivision with respect to which the corporation was organized.

Laws 1972, LB 1517, § 14;

Laws 1995, LB 494, § 13.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-2207 — NE Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21-2207
View Statute 21-2207
Status: in_force

A professional corporation shall have only those offices which are designated by street address in the articles of incorporation, and shall not change any such office or offices without amendment of the articles of incorporation.

Laws 1969, c. 121, § 7, p. 557.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-2911 — NE Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44-2911
View Statute 44-2911
Status: in_force

The association may collect, at the time a policy is issued, a membership fee of not more than three hundred dollars for each bed owned or operated by the member hospital and, in case of physicians associations, ten thousand dollars for each member physician. Such fee shall be paid into the association's surplus and shall be in addition to any premium charged for insurance.

Laws 1976, LB 809, § 11.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-529.05 — NE Code / Chapter 17 / Section 17-529.05
View Statute 17-529.05
Status: in_force

Whenever a petition is filed with the county clerk of any county, signed by either the governing board of any city of the second class or village or by one hundred or more electors of any city of the second class or village within such county setting forth: (1) That the United States Government has acquired, or is about to acquire, by purchase or eminent domain or both, the entire site upon which such city or village is located; (2) that the petitioners desire such city or village removed to another site and the corporate identity retained; (3) that a new site has been acquired, or contracted to be acquired, to which the old city or village can be removed; (4) that the petitioners intend to become residents of the new city or village when it is removed to the proposed new site; and (5) offer to pay all costs of the proceedings to effectuate such removal, the county board of such county shall enter an order setting such petition down for hearing not less than thirty nor more than sixty days after the filing of such petition and shall cause notice of such hearing to be given by publication three successive weeks prior to the hearing in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in such county.

Laws 1947, c. 44, § 3, p. 160;

Laws 2017, LB133, § 152.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-2711 — NE Code / Chapter 43 / Section 43-2711
View Statute 43-2711
Status: in_force

A transfer may be made only for one minor, and only one person may be the custodian. All custodial property held under the Nebraska Uniform Transfers to Minors Act by the same custodian for the benefit of the same minor constitutes a single custodianship.

Laws 1992, LB 907, § 11.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-3106 — NE Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13-3106
View Statute 13-3106
Status: in_force

(1) After consideration of the application and the evidence, if the board finds that the project described in the application is eligible and that state assistance is in the best interest of the state, the application shall be approved, except that:

(a) An approval of an application submitted because of the requirement in subdivision (1)(c) of section 13-3103 is a temporary approval. If the general obligation bond issue is subsequently approved by the voters of the political subdivision, the approval by the board becomes permanent. If the general obligation bond issue is not approved by such voters, the temporary approval shall become void; and

(b) An approval of an application submitted because of the requirement in subdivision (1)(f) of section 13-3103 is a temporary approval. If a building permit for the eligible sports arena facility is issued within twenty-four months of the temporary approval, the approval by the board becomes permanent. If a building permit is not issued within twenty-four months of the temporary approval, the temporary approval shall become void.

(2) In determining whether state assistance is in the best interest of the state, the board shall consider the fiscal and economic capacity of the applicant to finance the local share of the project.

(3) A majority of the board members constitutes a quorum for the purpose of conducting business. All actions of the board shall be by a majority vote of all the board members, one of whom must be the Governor.

Laws 2010, LB779, § 12;

Laws 2016, LB884, § 9;

Laws 2021, LB39, § 6;

Laws 2025, LB647, § 12.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-925 — NE Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44-925
View Statute 44-925
Status: in_force

(1) By July 1, 2001, a licensee shall provide an initial notice, as required by section 44-904 , to consumers who are the licensee's customers on July 1, 2001, with regard to nonpublic personal financial information.

(2) Until July 1, 2002, a contract that a licensee has entered into with a nonaffiliated third party to perform services for the licensee or functions on the licensee's behalf satisfies the provisions of subdivision (1)(a)(ii) of section 44-913 , even if the contract does not include a requirement that the third party maintain the confidentiality of nonpublic personal information, as long as the licensee entered into the agreement on or before July 1, 2000.

Laws 2001, LB 52, § 25.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 39-1341 — NE Code / Chapter 39 / Section 39-1341
View Statute 39-1341
Status: in_force

The governing body of any political or governmental subdivision or public corporation may enter into a written agreement with the department for the maintenance of the additional width, as provided for in section 39-1305 , by the department and from time to time, in accordance with such agreement, shall appropriate and pay into the Highway Cash Fund such sums of money as may be agreed upon. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent any political or governmental subdivision or public corporation from maintaining such additional width at its own expense.

Laws 1955, c. 148, § 41, p. 436;

Laws 1986, LB 599, § 8.