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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 2-1083 — NE Code / Chapter 2 / Section 2-1083
View Statute 2-1083
Status: in_force

Nursery stock shall mean all botanically classified hardy perennial or biennial plants, trees, shrubs, and vines, either domesticated or wild, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, bulbs, rhizomes, or roots thereof, and such plants and plant parts for, or capable of, propagation, excluding plants grown for indoor use, annual plants, florist stock, cut flowers, sod, turf, onions, potatoes, or seeds of any such plant.

Laws 1988, LB 874, § 12;

Laws 2013, LB68, § 6.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-4704 — NE Code / Chapter 30 / Section 30-4704
View Statute 30-4704
Status: in_force

(a) Community-property spouses domiciled in this state may partition or reclassify property to which the Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act otherwise would apply. The partition or reclassification must be in a record signed by both community-property spouses.

(b) A community-property spouse domiciled in this state may waive a right granted by the Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act only by complying with the law of this state, including this state's choice-of-law rules, applicable to waiver of a spousal property right.

Laws 2024, LB83, § 4.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-2106 — NE Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21-2106
View Statute 21-2106
Status: in_force

Every corporation created under the provisions of sections 21-2101 to 21-2117 shall have as a part of its corporate name or title the words business development.

Laws 1967, c. 100, § 6, p. 304.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-734 — NE Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66-734
66-734
Status: in_force

(1) The contribution for the cash bond required in section 66-733 shall be collected by the department each tax period with the tax return for all such periods beginning on and after September 30, 1985. The amount due shall be deemed to be tax for the purpose of collection or refund.

(2) The amount collected each tax period from the motor fuel producers, suppliers, distributors, wholesalers, importers, and retailers shall be the portion of the commission allowed which equals one-fourth of one percent of the total tax due.

(3) The contributions from the motor fuel producers, suppliers, distributors, wholesalers, importers, and retailers shall continue to be collected until the amount in the trust fund, including interest earned, is equal to one percent of the total motor fuel tax collected during the preceding year. The contributions shall resume whenever the amount is less than one-half of one percent of the motor fuel tax collected during the preceding year.

(4) The department shall notify the producers, suppliers, distributors, wholesalers, importers, and retailers whenever it is necessary for the contributions to resume. The contributions shall begin with the first tax return that is due at least thirty days after notice is provided by the department.

Laws 1985, LB 273, § 26;

R.S.1943, (1990), § 66-610.02;

Laws 1991, LB 627, § 129;

Laws 1994, LB 1160, § 105;

Laws 1995, LB 182, § 57;

Laws 2004, LB 983, § 54.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-976 — NE Code / Chapter 17 / Section 17-976
View Statute 17-976
Status: in_force

For the purpose of paying the cost of improvements in any water service district and the funding of any warrants issued, the governing body may by ordinance cause to be issued bonds of the city or village to be called Water Service District Bonds of District No. ..., payable in not to exceed ten years from date and to bear interest payable annually or semiannually. Such bonds shall be general obligations of the city or village, and the governing body shall levy and collect annually a tax upon all of the taxable property in such city or village sufficient in rate and amount to pay in full, when taken together with the assessments provided for in section 17-971 , the principal and interest of such bonds as the same become due. The amount of such tax shall not be included in the maximum amount of tax which any such city of the second class or village is authorized to levy annually.

Laws 1967, c. 73, § 7, p. 239;

Laws 1969, c. 51, § 61, p. 311;

Laws 1992, LB 719A, § 67;

Laws 2017, LB133, § 305.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-2629 — NE Code / Chapter 43 / Section 43-2629
View Statute 43-2629
Status: reserved

(1) The Child Care Capacity Building and Workforce Grant Program is created.

(2) The department shall contract with a statewide organization that supports children and families to administer the program, which may include providing technical assistance to any grant recipient. Up to five percent of the money appropriated to the department each fiscal year for purposes of the Child Care Capacity Building and Workforce Act may be reserved for such contract with a statewide organization.

(3) Under the guidance of the department, the statewide organization shall be responsible for the following under the program:

(a) Prescribing the form on which an eligible recipient may apply to receive a grant under the program;

(b) Reviewing applications and identifying potential grant recipients;

(c) Providing technical assistance to grant recipients; and

(d) Coordinating with the Department of Health and Human Services and the State Department of Education to determine if the grant request will help meet the child care needs of the eligible recipient.

(4) The Department of Economic Development shall:

(a) Award grants to eligible recipients across the state and in urban and rural areas to the fullest extent possible;

(b) Award a grant to an eligible recipient based upon a list of the potential grant recipients that are identified by the statewide organization; and

(c) Prioritize applicants that are requesting a grant to:

(i) Increase child care capacity for children three years of age or younger by creating a new licensed child care program or license-exempt child care program serving children enrolled in child care subsidy or expanding an existing licensed-child care or license-exempt child care program serving children enrolled in child care subsidy;

(ii) Support the child care workforce; or

(iii) Create a child care program in a county that is not served by any licensed or license-exempt child care program that offers full-day full-year care.

Laws 2024, LB164, § 33.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 14-1222 — NE Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14-1222
View Statute 14-1222
Status: in_force

The city council of a city of the metropolitan class shall have the right to purchase for investment of other funds, and the bridge commission and the city council shall have the right to purchase for retirement and cancellation, any of such bonds that may be outstanding, at the market price, but at not exceeding one hundred five percent and accrued interest and not exceeding the price, if any, at which such bonds shall in the same year be redeemable, but all bonds redeemed or purchased out of funds provided by the sale of bridge bonds shall be canceled and shall not be reissued.

Laws 1929, c. 176, § 10, p. 620;

C.S.1929, § 14-1210;

Laws 1931, c. 27, § 2, p. 109;

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 14-1210;

R.S.1943, § 14-1222;

Laws 2022, LB800, § 255.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-209 — NE Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49-209
View Statute 49-209
Status: in_force

The form of the ballots prepared in conformity with sections 49-202.01 , 49-207 , and 49-208 shall be transmitted to the county clerks and election commissioners of the several counties of this state at least fifty days before the election at which such proposition or amendments are to be voted upon.

Laws 1895, c. 5, § 3, p. 70;

R.S.1913, § 3706;

C.S.1922, § 3094;

C.S.1929, § 49-209;

R.S.1943, § 49-209;

Laws 1961, c. 242, § 1, p. 722;

Laws 1973, LB 554, § 2;

Laws 1994, LB 76, § 561;

Laws 1997, LB 764, § 109.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 23-1516 — NE Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23-1516
View Statute 23-1516
Status: in_force

The register of deeds, if using the book form of recording, shall keep a separate book to be called the Miscellaneous Record in which all instruments and writings not entitled to be recorded in any of the books herein provided for shall be recorded.

Laws 1885, c. 41, § 10, p. 224;

Laws 1887, c. 30, § 12, p. 367;

R.S.1913, § 5631;

C.S.1922, § 4958;

C.S.1929, § 26-1216;

R.S.1943, § 23-1516;

Laws 1984, LB 679, § 10.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 13-1601 — NE Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13-1601
View Statute 13-1601
Status: in_force

Sections 13-1601 to 13-1626 shall be known and may be cited as the Political Subdivisions Self-Funding Benefits Act.

Laws 1991, LB 167, § 1.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 42-405 — NE Code / Chapter 42 / Section 42-405
View Statute 42-405
Status: in_force

Such Indians and their descendants may obtain divorces in the manner and for the causes provided in the statutes of this state, and not otherwise.

Laws 1913, c. 68, § 5, p. 202;

R.S.1913, § 1611;

C.S.1922, § 1560;

C.S.1929, § 42-405;

R.S.1943, § 42-405.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 57-910.01 — NE Code / Chapter 57 / Section 57-910.01
View Statute 57-910.01
Status: in_force

Any owner may file an application with the commission requesting an order for the unit operation of a pool, pools, or parts thereof and for the pooling of the interests in the oil and gas in the proposed unit area for the purpose of conducting such unit operation. The application shall contain:

(1) A description of the land and pool, pools, or parts thereof to be so operated, termed the unit area;

(2) The names of all persons owning or having an interest in the oil and gas in the proposed unit area or the production therefrom, including mortgagees and the owners of other liens or encumbrances, as disclosed by the public records in the county in which the unit area is situated and their addresses, if known. If the name or address of any person is unknown, the application shall so indicate;

(3) A statement of the type of the operations contemplated in order to effectuate the purposes of sections 57-910 to 57-910.12 ;

(4) A proposed plan of unitization applicable to the proposed unit area which the petitioner considers fair, reasonable, and equitable; and

(5) A proposed operating plan covering the manner in which the unit will be supervised and managed and costs allocated and paid, unless all owners within the unit area have already executed an operating agreement covering such supervision, management, and allocation and payment of costs.

Laws 1965, c. 343, § 2, p. 976.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 46-538 — NE Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46-538
View Statute 46-538
Status: in_force

Each director shall receive from the board a per diem of not to exceed seventy dollars per day for each day that such director attends a board meeting or is engaged in matters concerning the district, but no director shall receive more than two thousand eight hundred dollars in any one year. Each director shall also be entitled to expenses in the performance of his or her duties as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177 .

Laws 1947, c. 173, § 10(3), p. 534;

Laws 1981, LB 204, § 76;

Laws 2001, LB 409, § 1;

Laws 2020, LB381, § 38.

Additional expenses, board may reimburse, Local Government Miscellaneous Expenditure Act, see section 13-2203 .
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-2506.01 — NE Code / Chapter 38 / Section 38-2506.01
View Statute 38-2506.01
Status: in_force

Electromagnetic modality means the use of electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, microwaves, and light waves, to transport electrical and magnetic energy through space to effect changes in body structures.

Laws 2025, LB257, § 20.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 23-226 — NE Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23-226
View Statute 23-226
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall be made to appear to the county board that the town officers appointed by them or by any preceding board, as provided in section 23-225 , have failed to qualify as required by law, so that such town cannot become organized, the board may annex such town to any adjoining town, and the same town so annexed shall thereafter form and constitute a part of such adjoining town.

Laws 1895, c. 28, § 24, p. 139;

R.S.1913, § 1010;

C.S.1922, § 912;

C.S.1929, § 26-226;

R.S.1943, § 23-226.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 54-910 — NE Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54-910
View Statute 54-910
Status: in_force

(1) Any livestock animal health care professional, while acting in his or her professional capacity or within the scope of his or her employment, who observes or is involved in an incident which leads the livestock animal health care professional to reasonably suspect that a livestock animal has been abandoned, cruelly neglected, or cruelly mistreated shall report such treatment to an entity that investigates such reports in the appropriate jurisdiction.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a duty to investigate observed or reasonably suspected abandonment, cruel neglect, or cruel mistreatment of a livestock animal. Any person making a report under this section is immune from liability except for false statements of fact made with malicious intent.

(3) For purposes of this section, a livestock animal health care professional means a licensed veterinarian as defined in section 38-3310 or a licensed veterinary technician as defined in section 38-3311 whose practice involves care of livestock animals.

Laws 2010, LB865, § 10.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-543 — NE Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60-543
View Statute 60-543
Status: in_force

Any binder issued pending the issuance of a motor vehicle liability policy shall be deemed to fulfill the requirements for such a policy.

Laws 1949, c. 178, § 43, p. 498.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 2-3254.06 — NE Code / Chapter 2 / Section 2-3254.06
View Statute 2-3254.06
Status: in_force

(1) The natural resources district shall have a lien upon the real estate within its boundaries for all special assessments for improvement project areas which are due. Such lien shall be inferior only to general taxes levied by political subdivisions of the state. When such special assessments have become delinquent and the real property against which they are assessed has not been offered at any tax sale, the district may proceed in the district court in the county in which the real estate is situated to foreclose in its own name upon the lien in the same manner and with like effect as a foreclosure of a real estate mortgage, except that sections 77-1903 to 77-1917 , shall govern in every case when applicable.

(2) Final confirmation of sale in such foreclosure proceedings and the issuance of a deed of sale to the district, or its assignee, cannot be had until two years have expired from the date of the sale held by the sheriff and until personal notice has been served on the occupants of the real property after such two-year period. The remedy granted in this section to a natural resources district for the collection of delinquent special assessments shall be cumulative and in addition to other existing methods.

Laws 1981, LB 388, § 7.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 44-5441 — NE Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44-5441
View Statute 44-5441
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, prior authorization shall be valid for at least one year from the date the utilization review agent approves the prior authorization request, except for a prescription drug that has a treatment schedule or dosing limitation from the federal Food and Drug Administration of less than one year.

(2)(a) If a prior authorization is required for inpatient care at a general acute hospital, the prior authorization shall remain valid for the length of stay approved by the utilization review agent.

(b) If the health care provider submits a timely request for the continuation of inpatient care, the utilization review agent shall respond to this request prior to the expiration of the current authorization for inpatient care.

(c) If a utilization review agent fails to respond to a timely request for the continuation of inpatient care prior to the termination of the previously approved length of stay, then the health carrier shall continue to compensate the health care provider at the contracted rate for inpatient care provided until the utilization review agent issues its determination on the prior authorization request.

(d) Nothing in this subsection shall be interpreted to prohibit a health care provider or enrollee from appealing an adverse determination as allowed under state law. If an adverse determination is overturned on appeal, and no other legal action related to the claim is pending, then the health carrier shall reimburse the health care provider at the contracted rate for inpatient care provided to the enrollee.

(3) This section does not require a health benefit plan to cover care, treatment, or services for a health condition that the terms of coverage otherwise completely exclude from the policy's covered benefits without regard for whether the care, treatment, or services are medically necessary.

Laws 2025, LB77, § 10.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 38-2614 — NE Code / Chapter 38 / Section 38-2614
View Statute 38-2614
Status: in_force

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

(2) In order to be certified by the department under subsection (1) of this section, the optometrist shall show (a) satisfactory completion of classroom education and clinical training which emphasizes the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of the eye, ocular adnexa, and visual system offered by a school or college approved by the board and passage of an examination approved by the board or (b) evidence of certification in another state for the use of therapeutic pharmaceutical agents which is deemed by the board as satisfactory validation of such qualifications.

Laws 2007, LB247, § 74;

Laws 2007, LB463, § 886;

Laws 2014, LB526, § 3.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 21-1737 — NE Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21-1737
View Statute 21-1737
Status: in_force

(1) A credit union shall maintain all books, records, accounting systems, and procedures in accordance with the rules and regulations as the director from time to time may prescribe.

(2) Credit unions shall preserve or keep their records or files, or photographic or microphotographic copies thereof, for a period of not less than six years after the first day of January of the year following the time of the making or filing of such records or files except as provided in subsection (3) of this section.

(3)(a) Ledger sheets showing unpaid balances in favor of members of credit unions shall not be destroyed unless the credit union has remitted such unpaid balances to the State Treasurer in accordance with the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act. Credit unions shall retain a record of every such remittance for ten years following the date of such remittance.

(b) Corporate records that relate to the corporation or the corporate existence of the credit union shall not be destroyed.

(4) A credit union shall not be liable for destroying records after the expiration of the record retention period provided in this section except for records involved in an official investigation or examination about which the credit union has received notice.

(5) A reproduction of any credit union records shall be admissible as evidence of transactions with the credit union as provided in section 25-12,112 .

Laws 1996, LB 948, § 37;

Laws 1999, LB 396, § 21.

Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, see section 69-1329 .
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 8-170 — NE Code / Chapter 8 / Section 8-170
View Statute 8-170
Status: in_force

(1) Banks shall not be required to preserve or keep their records or files or copies thereof for a period longer than six years next after the first day of January of the year following the time of the making or filing of such records or files except as provided in subsection (2) of this section.

(2)(a) Ledger sheets showing unpaid balances in favor of depositors of banks shall not be destroyed unless the bank has remitted such unpaid balances to the State Treasurer in accordance with the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act. Banks shall retain a record of every such remittance for ten years following the date of such remittance.

(b) Corporate records that relate to the corporation or the corporate existence of the bank shall not be destroyed.

(3) All records or files or copies thereof shall be readable or legible.

Laws 1949, c. 10, § 1, p. 71;

R.R.S.1943, § 8-1,111;

Laws 1963, c. 29, § 70, p. 162;

Laws 1999, LB 396, § 10;

Laws 2017, LB140, § 68.

Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, see section 69-1329 .
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 19-603 — NE Code / Chapter 19 / Section 19-603
View Statute 19-603
Status: in_force

In any city which adopts the city manager plan of government as provided in the City Manager Plan of Government Act, the charter and all general laws governing such city shall continue in full force and effect, except that if any provisions of such charter or laws are inconsistent with the act, the same shall be superseded.

Laws 1917, c. 208, § 3, p. 498;

C.S.1922, § 4540;

C.S.1929, § 19-603;

R.S.1943, § 19-603;

Laws 2019, LB193, § 34.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 61-210 — NE Code / Chapter 61 / Section 61-210
View Statute 61-210
Status: in_force

The Department of Water, Energy, and Environment Cash Fund is created. The State Treasurer shall credit to such fund such money as is specifically appropriated or reappropriated by the Legislature. The State Treasurer shall also credit such fund with payments, if any, accepted for services rendered by the department, including the Chief Water Officer, and fees collected pursuant to subsection (6) of section 46-606 and section 61-209 . The funds made available to the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment by the United States, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture or through any other agencies, shall be credited to the fund by the State Treasurer. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act. The Department of Water, Energy, and Environment shall allocate money from the fund to pay costs of the programs or activities of the department, including the programs or activities of the Chief Water Officer. The Director of Administrative Services, upon receipt of proper vouchers approved by the department, shall issue warrants on the fund, and the State Treasurer shall countersign and pay from, but never in excess of, the amounts to the credit of the fund. Transfers may be made from the fund to the General Fund at the direction of the Legislature.

Laws 1937, c. 8, § 13, p. 109;

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 2-1913;

R.S.1943, § 2-1547;

Laws 1959, c. 6, § 25, p. 90;

Laws 1969, c. 584, § 28, p. 2358;

Laws 1973, LB 188, § 2;

Laws 1987, LB 29, § 2;

Laws 1995, LB 7, § 6;

Laws 1999, LB 403, § 2;

R.S.Supp.,1999, § 2-1547;

Laws 2000, LB 900, § 10;

Laws 2001, LB 667, § 26;

Laws 2002, LB 458, § 8;

Laws 2005, LB 335, § 81;

Laws 2007, LB701, § 26;

Laws 2009, First Spec. Sess., LB3, § 38;

Laws 2025, LB317, § 336.

Nebraska Capital Expansion Act, see section 72-1269 .

Nebraska State Funds Investment Act, see section 72-1260 .