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NE Code § 71-1564 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1564 - Commission; administer act; rules and regulations; powers; enumerated; charge for services.

71-1564.  Commission; administer act; rules and regulations; powers; enumerated; charge for services.(1) The commission is hereby charged with the administration of the provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act. The commission may adopt, amend, alter, or repeal general rules and regulations of procedure for carrying out and administering the provisions of such act in regard to (a) the issuance of seals, (b) the submission of plans and specifications of modular housing units, (c) the obtaining of statistical data respecting the manufacture and sale of modular housing units, and (d) the prescribing of means, methods, and practices to make effective such provisions. In adopting such rules and regulations, the commission may require that plans and specifications of modular housing units submitted to the commission be prepared and submitted only by a Nebraska architect or professional engineer.(2) A person intending to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or lease a modular housing unit in the State of Nebraska shall submit plans, specifications, and a compliance assurance program in accordance with the act and shall be charged for engineering services of the commission provided for performing the review of such initial submittal at a rate of not less than fifteen dollars per hour and not more than sixty dollars per hour based upon sixty hours of review time as determined annually by the commission after published notice and a hearing.Source   Laws 1976, LB 248, § 10;   Laws 1984, LB 822, § 10;   Laws 1992, LB 1019, § 68;   Laws 1997, LB 622, § 100;   Laws 1998, LB 1073, § 98;  Laws 2008, LB797, § 10.
NE Code § 71-1566 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1566 - Modular housing units; place manufactured, sold, or leased; open to inspection by commission.

71-1566.  Modular housing units; place manufactured, sold, or leased; open to inspection by commission.The commission through its authorized representatives may enter any place or establishment where modular housing units are manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or leased for the purpose of inspecting such modular housing units or parts thereof in order to ascertain whether the requirements of the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act and the rules, regulations, and standards adopted by the commission have been complied with. If the commission appoints qualified nongovernmental inspectors or inspection agencies as its authorized representatives to carry out such inspections, the commission shall at all times exercise supervisory control over such inspectors or agencies to insure effective and uniform enforcement of its standards. No person may interfere with, obstruct, or hinder an authorized representative of the commission in the performance of such an inspection.Source   Laws 1976, LB 248, § 12;   Laws 1984, LB 822, § 12;   Laws 1998, LB 1073, § 100.
NE Code § 71-1567 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1567 - Seal; denied or suspended; hearing; appeal.

71-1567.  Seal; denied or suspended; hearing; appeal.(1) The commission shall refuse to issue a seal to a manufacturer for any modular housing unit not found to be in compliance with its standards governing the construction of or the structural, plumbing, heating, or electrical systems for modular housing units or for which fees have not been paid. Except in case of failure to pay the required fees, any such manufacturer may request a hearing before the commission on the issue of such refusal. Procedures for notice and opportunity for a hearing before the commission shall be pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act. The refusal may be appealed, and the appeal shall be in accordance with section 75-136.(2) The issuance of seals may be suspended as to any manufacturer who is convicted of violating section 71-1563 or as to any manufacturer who violates any other provision of the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act or any rule, regulation, commission order, or standard adopted pursuant thereto, and issuance of the seals shall not be resumed until such manufacturer submits sufficient proof that the conditions which caused the violation have been remedied. Any such manufacturer may request a hearing before the commission on the issue of such suspension. Procedures for notice and opportunity for a hearing before the commission shall be pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act. The suspension may be appealed, and the appeal shall be in accordance with section 75-136.Source   Laws 1976, LB 248, § 13;   Laws 1984, LB 822, § 13;   Laws 1988, LB 352, § 121;   Laws 1998, LB 1073, § 101;  Laws 2008, LB797, § 11;  Laws 2013, LB545, § 2. Cross References  Administrative Procedure Act, see section 84-920.
NE Code § 71-1568.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1568.01 - Existing rules, regulations, orders, suits, and proceedings; effect of transfer.

71-1568.01.  Existing rules, regulations, orders, suits, and proceedings; effect of transfer.All rules, regulations, and orders of the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure or its predecessor agency adopted prior to May 1, 1998, in connection with the powers, duties, and functions transferred to the Public Service Commission under the Nebraska Uniform Standards for Modular Housing Units Act, shall continue to be effective until revised, amended, repealed, or nullified pursuant to law.No suit, action, or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced prior to May 1, 1998, or which could have been commenced prior to that date, by or against such department or agency, or the director or employee thereof in such director's or employee's official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his or her official duties, shall abate by reason of the transfer of duties and functions from such department or agency to the commission.On and after May 1, 1998, unless otherwise specified, whenever any provision of law refers to such department or agency in connection with duties and functions transferred to the commission, the law shall be construed as referring to the commission.Any costs incurred by the department and associated with the transfer of powers, duties, and functions to the commission under the act shall be borne by the commission.Source  Laws 1998, LB 1073, § 102.
NE Code § 71-1569 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1569 - Scald prevention device; required; when.

71-1569.  Scald prevention device; required; when.(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all bathtubs and showers installed in buildings which contain more than one dwelling unit after August 30, 1987, shall be equipped with either a pressure balancing or thermostatic-mixing scald prevention device which is designed and installed to prevent (a) sudden unanticipated changes in the temperature of the water delivered and (b) the temperature of the water delivered from exceeding one hundred fifteen degrees Fahrenheit.(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to showers or bathtubs installed in modular housing units as defined in section 71-1557, manufactured homes as defined in section 71-4603, or recreational vehicles as defined in section 71-4603.Source  Laws 1987, LB 264, § 1.
NE Code § 71-1570 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1570 - Scald prevention device; inspection.

71-1570.  Scald prevention device; inspection.Persons employed by political subdivisions to inspect plumbing fixtures shall inspect showers and bathtubs for compliance with section 71-1569.Source  Laws 1987, LB 264, § 2.
NE Code § 71-1571 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1571 - Scald prevention device; violation; penalty.

71-1571.  Scald prevention device; violation; penalty.Anyone who installs four or more showers or bathtubs, in a single building, in violation of section 71-1569 shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.Source  Laws 1987, LB 264, § 3.
NE Code § 71-1572 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1572 - Act, how cited.

71-1572.  Act, how cited.Sections 71-1572 to 71-15,168 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Housing Agency Act.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 1.
NE Code § 71-1574 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1574 - Act; purposes.

71-1574.  Act; purposes.The purposes of the Nebraska Housing Agency Act are:(1) To remedy the shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing affordable to persons of low and moderate income, to provide opportunities to secure such housing to all such persons, to preserve existing supplies of such housing, and to create, administer, and operate programs to increase and maintain access to decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing and home ownership upon terms affordable to such persons;(2) To encourage the development, redevelopment, rehabilitation, and preservation of safe, livable neighborhoods containing housing that is affordable to persons of low and moderate income, including mixed-income developments, and to reduce where feasible high residential concentrations of impoverished persons;(3) In connection with the provision of affordable housing and related activities authorized under the act, to eliminate or ameliorate conditions of blight and physical deterioration in public facilities and the residential infrastructure;(4) To provide housing, rental, and other assistance to persons of low and moderate income and assistance to properties and entities in accordance with the provisions of the act and, subject to standards and procedures adopted by the local housing agency, to authorize the provision by local housing agencies of supportive services and programs of every kind and description to advance the social, educational, and economic well-being and the economic and social self-sufficiency of persons receiving housing assistance under the act so as to create wholesome living environments, eliminate long-term poverty, encourage gainful employment, develop social and economic self-sufficiency, including living independently of housing assistance, and enhance personal responsibility on the part of such persons;(5) To increase intergovernmental cooperation and the use of consortia and intergovernmental partnerships for the development of affordable housing and suitable neighborhoods;(6) To encourage the use of entrepreneurial methods and approaches and to stimulate and increase private sector initiatives and joint public-private sector initiatives by local housing agencies in carrying out the purposes and provisions of the act;(7) To increase the availability, from both public and private sector sources, of financing for the purchase of dwellings and the financing for home improvements, repairs, and rehabilitation at rates and upon terms that are affordable to persons of low or moderate income and to increase the availability of sources of equity and other financing for the development and operation by local housing agencies and private sector entities of decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing that is affordable to persons of low and moderate income; and(8) In carrying out the purposes described in this section, to vest in local housing agencies reasonable responsibility, authority, and discretion.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 3.
NE Code § 71-1576 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1576 - Authority established under prior law; existence and actions; how treated.

71-1576.  Authority established under prior law; existence and actions; how treated.Any local housing authority established under any prior Nebraska law relating to housing authorities and in existence on January 1, 2000, shall have continued existence as a housing agency under the Nebraska Housing Agency Act and shall thereafter conduct its operations consistent with the act. All property, rights in land, buildings, records, and equipment and any funds, money, revenue, receipts, or assets of an authority shall belong to the agency as successor. All obligations, debts, commitments, and liabilities of an authority shall become obligations, debts, commitments, and liabilities of the successor agency. Any resolution by an authority and any action taken by the authority prior to January 1, 2000, with regard to any project or program which is to be completed within or to be conducted for a twelve-month period following January 1, 2000, and which resolution or action is lawful under Nebraska law as it exists prior to January 1, 2000, shall be a lawful resolution or action of the successor agency and binding upon such successor agency and enforceable by or against such agency notwithstanding that such resolution or action is inconsistent with, not authorized, or prohibited under the provisions of the act. All commissioners of such agency and all officers, legal counsel, technical experts, directors, and other appointees or employees of such agency holding office or employment by virtue of any such prior law on January 1, 2000, shall be deemed to have been appointed or employed under the act.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 5.
NE Code § 71-1577 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1577 - Local housing agency; created; when.

71-1577.  Local housing agency; created; when.In each city and county of this state which has not previously established a housing agency or authority, there is hereby created a local housing agency. Such agency shall not be deemed to be established under the Nebraska Housing Agency Act, nor shall it be authorized to conduct any business or exercise any of its powers, unless and until the governing body of the city or county declares by resolution or ordinance that a need exists for such a local housing agency to function in such city or county and finds that there exists a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in such city or county that is available and affordable to all residents regardless of income.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 6.
NE Code § 71-1578 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1578 - Local housing agency; resolution or ordinance; effect.

71-1578.  Local housing agency; resolution or ordinance; effect.In order for a city or county to establish a local housing agency which may conduct business and exercise its powers, the governing body of such city or county desiring to establish such agency shall adopt a resolution or ordinance declaring that there is a need for a local housing agency in such city or county because there exists a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in such city or county that is affordable to all residents thereof, regardless of income. No further action or findings shall be necessary. Upon the adoption of such resolution or ordinance, the local housing agency shall be established and shall have perpetual existence unless dissolved in accordance with law.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 7.
NE Code § 71-1579 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1579 - Local housing agency; name.

71-1579.  Local housing agency; name.Each local housing agency established pursuant to the Nebraska Housing Agency Act shall adopt, within or together with the resolution or ordinance required under section 71-1578, a name for all legal and operating purposes. The name so adopted shall include a reference to the geographic locus of the agency and such other name or identifier as the governing body establishing the agency shall determine. A local housing agency established under prior law may adopt a name consistent with this section by resolution or ordinance adopted by at least two-thirds of such agency's entire board of commissioners and approved by the governing body of the city or county establishing such agency.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 8.
NE Code § 71-1580 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1580 - Local housing agency; evidence of establishment.

71-1580.  Local housing agency; evidence of establishment.A duly certified copy of the resolution or ordinance establishing a local housing agency shall, in any proceeding in which such evidence may be required, be conclusive evidence that such agency has been properly established and is authorized to transact business and exercise its powers under the Nebraska Housing Agency Act.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 9.
NE Code § 71-1581 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1581 - Regional housing agency; resolution or ordinance to establish.

71-1581.  Regional housing agency; resolution or ordinance to establish.Any two or more cities, two or more counties, or any combination of cities and counties may, by resolution or ordinance of their separate governing bodies, establish a regional housing agency by adopting a joint resolution or ordinance declaring that there is a need for a regional housing agency to provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing that is affordable to persons of low and moderate income residing in a multijurisdictional area and that this need would be more efficiently served by the establishment of a regional housing agency.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 10.
NE Code § 71-1582 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1582 - Regional housing agency; resolution or ordinance; effect.

71-1582.  Regional housing agency; resolution or ordinance; effect.Upon the adoption of a resolution or ordinance, as provided in section 71-1581, by two or more cities or counties, a regional housing agency shall be established, and except as otherwise provided in the Nebraska Housing Agency Act, such regional housing agency shall have perpetual existence unless dissolved in accordance with law.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 11.
NE Code § 71-1583 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1583 - Regional housing agency; name.

71-1583.  Regional housing agency; name.Each regional housing agency established pursuant to the Nebraska Housing Agency Act shall adopt, within or together with the resolution or ordinance required under section 71-1581, a name for all legal and operating purposes. The name so adopted shall include a reference to the geographic locus of the agency and such other name or identifier as the governing bodies establishing the agency shall determine. A regional housing agency established under prior law may adopt a name consistent with this section by resolution or ordinance adopted by at least two-thirds of such agency's entire board of commissioners and approved by the governing bodies of all political subdivisions establishing such agency.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 12.
NE Code § 71-1584 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1584 - Regional housing agency; evidence of establishment.

71-1584.  Regional housing agency; evidence of establishment.A duly certified copy of the resolution or ordinance establishing a regional housing agency shall, in any proceeding in which such evidence may be required, be conclusive evidence that such agency has been properly established and is authorized to transact business and exercise its powers under the Nebraska Housing Agency Act.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 13.
NE Code § 71-1585 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1585 - Regional housing agency; additional members; procedure.

71-1585.  Regional housing agency; additional members; procedure.After a regional housing agency has been established, any additional city or county may elect to participate as a member of such regional housing agency upon adoption of a resolution or ordinance to such effect containing, in substance, the findings provided in section 71-1581, if a majority of the existing commissioners of such regional housing agency and all participating political subdivisions, by action of their respective governing bodies, consent to such additional member or members.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 14.
NE Code § 71-1586 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1586 - Regional housing agency; withdrawal; conditions; effect.

71-1586.  Regional housing agency; withdrawal; conditions; effect.Any participating city or county may withdraw from participation in the regional housing agency by resolution or ordinance of its governing body. Any withdrawal from participation shall be subject to, and may occur only pursuant to, the following conditions:(1) The regional housing agency has no bonds, notes, or other obligations outstanding or adequate provision for payment of such bonds, notes, or other obligations, by escrow or otherwise, has been made. Past performance without breach or default of an obligation secured only by one or more developments or the income thereof shall be deemed to be adequate provision;(2) The withdrawing city or county has made adequate provision for the performance of all of its outstanding obligations and responsibilities as a participant in the regional housing agency;(3) The withdrawing city or county has given six months' written notice to the regional housing agency and all other cities and counties participating therein; and(4) The commissioner or commissioners appointed by the withdrawing city or county shall be deemed to have resigned as of the date upon which the withdrawal is effective. Vacancies on the board of commissioners created by withdrawal of a city or county shall be filled in such manner as the cities and counties remaining as participants shall agree.Notwithstanding the withdrawal of any participating city or county, the legal title to and operating responsibility for any development located outside the area of operation of the regional housing agency remaining after such withdrawal has occurred shall continue to be vested in the regional housing agency unless a different arrangement is made.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 15.
NE Code § 71-1587 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1587 - Regional housing agency; become local housing agency or dissolve; when.

71-1587.  Regional housing agency; become local housing agency or dissolve; when.If only one city or county remains as a participant in any regional housing agency, such regional housing agency shall become the local housing agency of the remaining city or county at the discretion of its governing body, or such regional housing agency shall be dissolved and its assets and liabilities transferred to another existing housing agency or to a city or county or other public agency in the manner provided for dissolution of a local housing agency under sections 71-15,108 to 71-15,111.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 16.
NE Code § 71-1589 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1589 - Debts and liability; responsibility.

71-1589.  Debts and liability; responsibility.Except to the extent such city or county or this state may expressly elect to undertake such liability, neither any city or county with respect to which a local housing agency is established, nor any city or county participating in a regional housing agency, nor the state, nor any other public agency of this state shall be responsible for the debts or liabilities of any local housing agency or regional housing agency.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 18.
NE Code § 71-1591 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 71 - Public Health and Welfare|71-1591 - Property; exempt from judicial process.

71-1591.  Property; exempt from judicial process.Except to the extent a local housing agency or its controlled affiliates may otherwise expressly agree, all real and personal property of a local housing agency and its controlled affiliates shall be exempt from execution, levy, and sale for the payment of debt or otherwise pursuant to any judicial or other process.Source Laws 1999, LB 105, § 20.