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Phone: (402) 844-2000 CODE OF THE CITY
provisions embraced in the following chapters and sec­tions shall constitute and
be designated “The Code of the City of Norfolk, Nebraska,” and may be so
cited. Source: Code 1962, § 1-1-1
State law reference--Revision
of ordinances, R.R.S. 1943, 16-247.
Sec. 1-2. Definitions and
In the construction of this Code and all other ordinances
of the city, the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction
would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the council or the context
City: The words “the city” or “this city” shall be
construed as if followed by the words “of Norfolk, Nebraska.”
Code: The words “the Code” or “this Code” shall
mean The Code of the City of Norfolk, Nebraska.
Computation of time: The time within which an act is to be done,
is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last
day falls upon any legal holiday or on Saturday or Sunday, in which case the
last day is also excluded.
Council: Whenever the word “council” is used, it
shall be construed to mean the council of the City of Norfolk, Ne­braska.
County: The words “the county” or “this county”
shall mean Madison County, Stanton County or Pierce County, as appropriate.
Delegation of authority: Whenever a provision appears in this Code
requiring an officer of the city to do some act or make certain inspections, it
is to be construed to authorize such officer to designate, delegate and
authorize subordi­nates to perform the required act or make the required
inspection unless the terms of the provision or section ex­pressly designates
Gender: A word importing the masculine gender only,
shall extend and be applied to females and to firms, partnerships, associations
and corporations as well as to males.
Joint authority: Words purporting to give authority to three
(3) or more officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such
authority to a majority of such officers or other persons, unless it is
otherwise specifically declared.
Law: Any statute, ordinance or regulation
promulgated by the United States, the state, the county, the city or any agency
thereof, as well as the rules and regulations of other bodies politic that may
Month: The word “month” shall mean a calendar
Number: Any word importing the singular number shall
include the plural, and any word importing the plural number shall include the
Oath: The word “oath” shall be construed to
include an affirmation in all cases in which, by law, an affirmation may be substituted
for an oath, and in such cases the words “swear” and “sworn” shall be
equivalent to the words “affirm” and “affirmed.”
Officials, employees,
boards, commissions, etc.: Whenever
reference is made to officials, employees, boards, commissions or other
agencies of the city by title only, i.e., “mayor,” “clerk,” “manager,”
“chief of police,” etc., they shall be deemed to refer to the officials,
employees, boards, commissions or other agencies of this city.
Or, and: “Or” may be read “and” and “and” may be read
“or” if the context of the provision requires it.
Owner: The word “owner” shall, when applied to a
building or land, include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant
in partnership, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or of a
part of such building or land.
Person: The word “person” shall include and be
applied to a firm, partnership, association, corporation, organization, club,
society, group acting as a unit, or body politic and corporate, as well as to
Personal property: The words “personal property” shall include
money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt, things in action, and any other
species of property, except real property.
Preceding, following: The words “preceding” and “following” shall
mean the next before and the next after, respectively.
Property: The word “property” shall include real,
personal and mixed property.
Public place: Any public way, park, cemetery, school yard
or open space adjacent thereto; any public lake or stream; and any place or
business open to the use of the public in general, open to public view or to
which the public has access.
Public way: Any street, alley, boulevard, parkway,
highway, sidewalk or other public thoroughfare.
Real property: The words “real property” shall include
Roadway: That portion of a street improved, designed
or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic.
Shall, may: The word “shall” is mandatory, and the word
“may” is discretionary.
Sidewalk: The word “sidewalk” shall mean any portion of
the street between the curb, or the lateral line of the roadway and the
adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians.
Signature or subscription by
mark: “Signature” or “subscription
by mark” includes a mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such
signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who
writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name; but a signature or
subscription by mark can be acknowledged or can serve as a signature or
subscription to a sworn statement only when one witness shall sign his own name
State: The word “the state” or “this state” shall
be con­strued to mean the State of Nebraska.
Street: The word “street” shall mean and include
public streets, avenues, boulevards, highways, roads, alleys, lanes, viaducts,
bridges, public ways and approaches thereto and other public thoroughfares in
the city devoted to public use.
Tenant, occupant: The words “tenant” and “occupant,” applied
to a building or land shall mean any person who occupies the whole or a part of
such building or land, whether alone or with others.
Tense: Words used in the past or present tense
shall include the future as well as the past or present.
Week: A week consists of seven (7) consecutive
Writing: Writing includes any form of recorded
message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement or
record is required or authorized by this Code, it shall be made in writing, in
the English language, unless it is expressly provided otherwise.
Year: The word “year” shall mean a calendar year,
except where otherwise provided. Source: Code 1962, §§ 1-1-4, 1-1-5; Ord. No. 3058, § l(l), 3-1-82
Sec. 1-3. Certain ordinances
not affected by Code.
Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this
Code shall affect any ordinance:
(1) Promising or guaranteeing the payment of
money for the city, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the city or any
evidence of the city's indebtedness, or any contract or obligations assumed by
(2) Which is general but not of a permanent
(3) Granting any right or franchise;
(4) Dedicating, naming, establishing,
locating, relocating, opening, paving, widening, vacating, etc., any street or
public way in the city;
(5) Making any appropriation;
(6) Levying or imposing taxes;
(7) Establishing or prescribing grades in
(8) Providing for local improvements and assessing
taxes therefor;
(9) Dedicating, accepting, rejecting or
revoking any plat or subdivision in the city;
(10) Extending or contracting the boundaries of
(11) Prescribing the number, classification
benefits, pensions, or compensation of any city officers or employees, not
inconsistent herewith;
(12) Relating to the transfer or acceptance of
any specific real or personal property by the city;
(13) Relating to railroads or railroad
crossings with streets and other public ways, or relating to the conduct,
duties, service or rates of public utilities to the extent not embodied in such
(14) Pertaining to zoning, not contained in
(15) Any taxation ordinance not inconsistent
(16) Any other ordinance, or part thereof,
which is not of a general and permanent nature; and all such ordinances are
hereby recognized as continuing in full force and effect to the same extent as
if set out at length in this Code. Such
ordinances are on file in the city clerk's office. Source: Code 1962, §§ 1-2-1, 1-2-2, 1-2-3
Sec. 1-4. Code
does not affect prior offenses, rights, etc.
this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code shall affect any offense or act
committed or done, or any penalty or forfeiture incurred, or any contract or
right established or accruing before the effective date of this Code.
(b) The adoption of this Code shall not be interpreted as authorizing
or permitting any use or the continuance of any use of a structure or premises
in violation of any ordinance of the city in effect on the date of adoption of
this Code. Source: Code 1962, § 1-2-3
Sec. 1-5. Provisions considered as continuations of existing ordinances.
The provisions appearing in this Code, so far as they
are the same as those of ordinances existing at the time of the effective date
of this Code, shall be considered as continuations thereof and not as new
Sec. 1-6. Parenthetical and reference matter.
The matter in parentheses at the ends of sections in
this Code is for information only and is not a part of this Code. Citations to the 1962 Code of the city (Code
1962) and to later ordinances indicate only the source of such section and the text
may or may not be changed by this Code. Reference matter not in parentheses is for information only and is not a
part of this Code.
Sec. 1-7. Catchlines of sections.
The catchlines of the several sections of this Code
printed in boldface type are intended as mere catchwords to indicate the
contents of the section and shall not be deemed or taken to be titles of such
sections, nor as any part of the section, nor, unless expressly so provided,
shall they be so deemed when any of such sections, including the catchlines,
are amended or re-enacted.
Sec. 1-8. Reference to Code, conflicts.
In addition to the rules of construction and
definitions specified in this chapter, the following rules shall be observed in
the construction of this Code:
(a) All references to chapters, articles or
sections are to the chapters, articles and sections of this Code unless
(b) If the provisions of different chapters
of this Code conflict with or contravene each other, the provisions of each
chapter shall prevail as to all matters and questions growing out of the
subject matter of such chapter.
(c) If conflicting provisions be found in
different sections of the same chapter, the provisions of the section which is
last in numerical order shall prevail unless such construction would be
inconsistent with the mean­ing of such chapter. Source: Code 1962, § 1-1-1
The repeal of an ordinance
shall not revive any ordinances in force before or at the time the ordinance
repealed took effect.
shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took
effect, nor any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the
repeal, for any offense committed under the ordinance repealed.
Sec. 1-10. Application of certain ordinances to parking lots, private property,
All city ordinances having to do with offenses against the public morals, unlawful
assembly, trespass, disorderly conduct and negligent driving and the penalties for violation of such ordinances shall be in full force and effect and
shall be enforced with the same authority as can be done in public thoroughfares, public parking lots and other public places on all the following
East Norfolk Avenue
Health -Norfolk Clinic
West Norfolk Avenue Suite B
Queen City Boulevard
1211 North Riverside Boulevard
Apartments 1503 Glenmore Road
1505 Glenmore Road
1507 Glenmore Road
(Steve) Apartments
Healthcare - Chateau
Village 1701
Vicki Lane Suite 100
21 – Ringer Partners
West Norfolk Avenue
Lutheran Church 605
Lutheran Helping Hands Child Care
Lutheran School 511
918 & 922 Syracuse Avenue
East Benjamin Avenue
Federal Saving & Loan
600 West Benjamin Avenue thru 715 Country Club Road
West Omaha Avenue
Management 610-612
Management 1304-1306
East Omaha Avenue
West Koenigstein Avenue
(Jan) Law Office
Regional Health Services-Skyview Medical Center
Regional Health Services-Medical Offices North
Regional Health Services-Medical Offices West
Regional Health Services-East
Koenigstein Avenue
Regional Health Services-Prospect Medical Building
Regional Health Services-West
West Phillip Avenue
& K Apartments
West Pasewalk Avenue
South 20th Home
Food Store (East)
Food Store (West)
South 13th Street (Back)
1006 South 13th Street
& Go Stores
Caesar’s Apartments
101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113 Little Caesar Avenue
104, 106, 108, 110, 112 Little Caesar Avenue
& Son’s GW Foods
Century Agency
525 West Norfolk Avenue
Public Schools Alternative Education Facility
South 13th Street (Front)
areas owned by the Norfolk Public Schools including, but not limited to:
parking lots in the vicinity of Sixth and Walnut, Sixth and Maple, Sixth
and Spruce, Sixth and Cedar, north and west of the Junior High School
between Fifth and Sixth, north of Pasewalk, Sixth and Park, 1221 N 1st
Street (Norfolk Middle School) and any other areas currently owned by the
District or to be acquired in the future.
Fellow Manor
Fellow Rebekah Manor
1805, 1806, 1807, 1900, 1901 Parker Circle
Street & Maple Avenue
& Louie’s New York Pizzeria
Scheer’s
John’s Lutheran Church
Street and Benjamin Avenue
Joseph’s Nursing Home
Smith, DDS
124 South 5th Street
ARC – Norfolk
1005 West Norfolk Avenue
Madison Avenue & 10th Street (NE Corner)
609 South 13th Street
909 West Norfolk Avenue
1/2 West Norfolk Avenue
½ West Norfolk Avenue
owners of such privately owned parking areas have requested regulation of traffic, public use and conduct of
invitees by the city. Source: Ord. No. 2912, §§ 1, 2, 9-15-80; Ord. No. 2973, §§ 1, 2, 4-20-81; Ord. No. 3091, § 1, 9-20-82; Ord. No. 3092, § 1, 10-4-82; Ord. No. 3097, § 1, 10-18-82; Ord. No. 3102, § 1, 11-1-82; Ord. No. 3178, § 1, 12-5-83; Ord. No. 3372, § 1, 12-16-86; Ord. No. 3412, § 1, 6-16-­86; Ord. No. 3423, § 1, 8-4-86; Ord. No. 3538, § 1, 4-4-88; Ord. No. 3681, § 1, 10-16-89; Ord. No. 3719, § 1, 6-4-90; Ord. No. 4576, § 1, 4-1-02; Ord. No. 4635, § 1, 3-17-03
Cross reference--Application
of traffic laws to private property, § 24-3.
State law reference--Power
of city to so provide, R.R.S. 1943, 16-254.
Sec. 1-11. Extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain
All existing or future planning
and zoning ordinances, property use regulations, subdivision regulations,
building codes, plumbing codes, electrical codes, fire prevention codes or any
other code relating to building or relating to the erection, construction,
reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance, placing or using
any building, structure, automobile trailer, house trailer or cabin trailer,
shall be applicable to and enforceable within that portion of the unincorporated
area located within two (2) miles beyond and adjacent to the corporate limits
of the city as delineated on the official Extraterritorial Zoning Jurisdiction
Map of the city approved by ordinance, and shall have the same effect as if such unincorporated area
were within the corporate limits of the city; provided, however, that this
section shall not be interpreted, extended or applied so as to prohibit,
prevent or intervene with the conduct or existing farming, livestock
operations, businesses or industry. Source: Code 1962, §§ 1-7-5, 4-7-1; 11-25-1; Ord. No. 2981, § 5, 5-4-81; Ord. No. 3429, § 1, 9-15-86; Ord. No. 4070, § 1, 11-7-94; Ord. No. 5207, § 1, 6-4-12
Cross references--Buildings
and building regulations, Ch. 6; building code, § 6-16 et seq.; electrical
code, § 6-51 et seq.; mechanical code, § 6-106 et seq.; plumb­ing code, § 6-121
et seq.; housing code, § 12-16 et seq.; mobile homes and mobile home parks, Ch.
15; subdivisions, Ch. 23; zoning, Ch. 27.
of city to so provide, R.R.S. 1943, §§ 16-901, 19-922.
Sec. 1-12. Amendments to Code.
(a) Amendments to any of the provisions of this Code may be made by
amending such provisions by specific reference to the section number of this
Code in the following language: “That section ___________ of the
_____________________, is hereby amended to read as follows: . . .” The new provisions shall then be set out in
(b) In the event a new section not heretofore existing in the Code is
to be added, the following language may be used: “____________________, is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered ____________,
which said section reads as follows: . . .” The new section shall then be set out in full as desired. Source: Code 1962, § 1-1-3
Cross reference--Amendments
to zoning ordinances, § 27-6.
Sec. 1-13. Supplementation of Code--Generally.
(a) By contract or by city personnel, supplements to this Code shall
be prepared and printed whenever authorized or directed by the city. A supplement to the Code shall include all
substantive permanent and general parts of ordinances adopted during the period
covered by the supplement and all changes made thereby in the Code. The pages of a supplement shall be so
numbered that they will fit properly into the Code and will, where necessary,
replace pages which have become obsolete or partially obsolete, and the new
pages shall be so prepared that, when they have been inserted, the Code will be
current through the date of the adoption of the latest ordinance included in
(b) In preparing a supplement to this Code, all portions of the Code
which have been repealed shall be excluded from the Code by the omission
thereof from reprinted pages.
(c) When preparing a supplement to this Code, the codifier (meaning
the person, agency or organization authorized to prepare the supplement) may
make formal, nonsubstantive changes in ordinances and parts of ordinances
included in the supplement, insofar as it is necessary to do so to embody them
into a unified code. For example, the
codifier may:
(1) Organize the ordinance
material into appropriate subdivisions;
appropriate catchlines, headings and titles for sec­tions and other
subdivisions of the Code printed in the supplement, and make changes in such
catchlines, head­ings and titles;
(3) Assign appropriate
numbers to sections and other subdivisions to be inserted in the Code and,
where necessary to accommodate new material, change existing section or oth­er
subdivision numbers;
(4) Change the words “this
ordinance” or words of the same meaning to “this chapter,” “this article,”
“this division,” etc., as the case may be, or to “sections ___________ to
___________” (inserting section numbers to indicate the sections of the Code
which embody the substantive sections of the ordi­nance incorporated into the
(5) Make other nonsubstantive
changes necessary to preserve the original meaning of ordinance sections
inserted into the Code; but in no case shall the codifier make any change in
the meaning or effect of ordinance material included in the supplement or
already embodied in the Code. Source: Code 1962, § 1-1-3
Sec. 1-14. Same--Exclusion of special or temporary
Ordinances hereafter adopted
which are not of a general or permanent nature shall be numbered consecutively,
authenti­cated, published and recorded in the book of ordinances, but shall not
be prepared for insertion in this Code, nor be deemed a part hereof.
Sec. 1-15. Altering Code.
person to change or amend by additions or deletions, any part or portion of
this Code, or to insert or delete pages, or portions thereof, or to alter or
tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the
city to be misrepresented thereby; provided, that supplementation of this Code
by authorized persons shall be permitted.
Sec. 1-16. General penalty; continuing violations.
Whenever in this Code or
in any ordinance of the city an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be
unlawful or an offense or a violation or whenever in such Code or ordinance the
doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be
unlawful, or a violation or an offense, and no specific penalty is provided
therefor, the violation of any such provision or the failure to perform any
such act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
($500.00), and such violator may be committed to the city or county jail until
such fine and costs of prosecution are paid. Any person who violates a provision contained in Chapter 27 of this Code
shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00).
Each day such violation or
failure to perform such act shall continue shall constitute a separate offense,
penalty under the provisions of this Code shall not prevent the revocation or
suspension of any license, franchise or permit issued or granted under the
In all cases where the
same offense is made punishable or is created by different clauses or sections
of this Code the prosecuting officer may elect under which to proceed; but not
more than one recovery shall be had against the same person for the same
offense, provided, that the revocation of a license or permit shall not be
considered a recovery or penalty so as to bar any other penalty being enforced. Source: Code 1962, §§ 1-3-1, 1-3-4; Ord. No. 3058, § 1(2), 3-1-82; Ord. No. 3920, § 1, 1-4-93; Ord. No. 4121, § 1, 9-18-95
State law reference--Penalties
for ordinance violations, R.R.S. 1943, 16-246, 24-517.
Cross-reference--Non-moving
traffic violations, § 24-51 et seq.
Sec. 1-17. City officers or
employees not subject to general penalty for failure to perform official duties.
No provision of this Code
designating the duties of any city officer or city employee shall be so
construed as to make such officer or employee liable for any fine or penalty
pro­vided for a failure to perform such duty, unless the intention of
the council to impose such fine or penalty on such officer or employee is
specifically and clearly expressed in the section creating the duty. Source: Code 1962, § 1-3-5
Sec. 1-18. Severability of parts of Code.
It is hereby declared to be the
intention of the council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and
phrases of this Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph or section of this Code shall be declared unconsti­tutional by the valid
judgment or decree of a court of compe­tent jurisdiction, such
unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses,
sentences, paragraphs and sections of this Code.
Sec. 1-19. Restitution; order; when.
A sentencing court may
order the defendant to make restitu­tion for the actual physical injury or
property damage or loss sustained by the victim as a direct result of the
offense for which the defendant has been convicted. Whenever the court believes that restitution may be a proper
sentence or the victim of any offense or the prosecuting attorney requests, the
court shall order that the presentence investigation report include
documentation regarding the nature and amount of the actual damages sus­tained
by the victim. Source: Ord. No. 3700, § 1, 4-2-90
1-20. Restitution; enforcement; by whom
An order of restitution
may be enforced by a victim named in the order to receive the restitution or the
personal representative of the victim's estate in the same manner as a judgment
in a civil action. Source: Ord. No. 4927, § 1, 2-5-07