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NE Code § 13-2704 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2704 - Civic and Community Center Financing Fund; created; use; investment.

13-2704.  Civic and Community Center Financing Fund; created; use; investment.(1) The Civic and Community Center Financing Fund is created. The fund shall be administered by the department. 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. Transfers may be made from the fund to the General Fund, the Department of Revenue Enforcement Fund, and the State Colleges Sport Facilities Cash Fund at the direction of the Legislature.(2)(a) The department shall use the Civic and Community Center Financing Fund for the following purposes:(i) For grants of assistance as described in section 13-2704.01;(ii) For grants of assistance as described in section 13-2704.02; and(iii) For reasonable and necessary costs of the department directly related to the administration of the fund.(b) Grants of assistance shall not be used for programming, marketing, advertising, or facility-staffing activities.(3) The State Treasurer shall transfer two hundred fifty thousand dollars from the Civic and Community Center Financing Fund to the State Colleges Sport Facilities Cash Fund on October 1 of 2012, 2013, and 2014. Commencing October 1, 2015, and every year thereafter, the State Treasurer shall transfer three hundred thousand dollars from the Civic and Community Center Financing Fund to the State Colleges Sport Facilities Cash Fund.Source  Laws 1999, LB 382, § 16;  Laws 2009, First Spec. Sess., LB3, § 8;  Laws 2010, LB779, § 5;  Laws 2011, LB297, § 5;  Laws 2012, LB969, § 4;  Laws 2013, LB153, § 4;  Laws 2015, LB661, § 29;  Laws 2019, LB564, § 3;  Laws 2020, LB1009, § 3.  Cross References   Nebraska Capital Expansion Act, see section 72-1269.  Nebraska State Funds Investment Act, see section 72-1260.
NE Code § 13-2704.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2704.01 - Grants of assistance; purposes; applications; evaluation.

13-2704.01.  Grants of assistance; purposes; applications; evaluation.(1) The department shall use the fund to provide grants of assistance for the following purposes:(a) To assist in the construction of new civic centers and recreation centers or the renovation or expansion of existing civic centers and recreation centers;(b) To assist in the preservation, restoration, conversion, rehabilitation, or reuse of historic buildings or districts; or(c) To assist in the construction or upgrade of public spaces, including the demolition of substandard and abandoned buildings.(2) Applications for grants of assistance pursuant to this section shall be evaluated by the department pursuant to section 13-2707.Source  Laws 2013, LB153, § 5;  Laws 2018, LB379, § 3;  Laws 2018, LB940, § 2;  Laws 2019, LB564, § 4.
NE Code § 13-2704.02 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2704.02 - Grants of assistance; engineering and technical studies.

13-2704.02.  Grants of assistance; engineering and technical studies.(1) The department shall use the fund to provide grants of assistance for engineering and technical studies directly related to projects described in section 13-2704.01.(2) Applications for grants of assistance pursuant to this section shall be evaluated by the department pursuant to section 13-2707.01.Source Laws 2013, LB153, § 6.
NE Code § 13-2706 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2706 - Eligibility for grant; grant application.

13-2706.  Eligibility for grant; grant application.(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section for a city of the primary class, any municipality that has applied for and received a grant of assistance under the Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act shall not receive state assistance under the Civic and Community Center Financing Act for the same project for which the grant was awarded under the Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act.(2) A city of the primary class shall not be eligible to receive a grant of assistance from the Civic and Community Center Financing Act if the city has applied for and received a grant of assistance under the Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act.(3) Any city that has received funding under the Convention Center Facility Financing Assistance Act shall not receive state assistance under the Civic and Community Center Financing Act.(4) Any municipality eligible for a grant of assistance as provided in this section may apply for a grant of assistance from the fund. Application shall be made on forms developed by the department.Source  Laws 1999, LB 382, § 18;  Laws 2003, LB 385, § 2;  Laws 2007, LB551, § 8;  Laws 2010, LB779, § 6;  Laws 2012, LB426, § 1. Cross References   Convention Center Facility Financing Assistance Act, see section 13-2601.  Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act, see section 13-3101.
NE Code § 13-2707 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2707 - Department; evaluation criteria; match required; location.

13-2707.  Department; evaluation criteria; match required; location.(1) The department shall evaluate all applications for grants of assistance under section 13-2704.01 based on the following criteria, which are listed in no particular order of preference:(a) Retention Impact. Funding decisions by the department shall be based on the likelihood of the project retaining existing residents in the community where the project is located, developing, sustaining, and fostering community connections, and enhancing the potential for economic growth in a manner that will sustain the quality of life and promote long-term economic development;(b) New Resident Impact. Funding decisions by the department shall be based on the likelihood of the project attracting new residents to the community where the project is located;(c) Visitor Impact. Funding decisions by the department shall be based on the likelihood of the project enhancing or creating an attraction that would increase the potential of visitors to the community where the project is located from inside and outside the state;(d) Readiness. The fiscal, economic, and operational capacity of the applicant, and of any political subdivision that owns the eligible facility jointly with the applicant, to finance and manage the project and to operate the eligible facility; and(e) Project Planning. Projects with completed technical assistance and feasibility studies shall be preferred to those with no prior planning.(2) The department shall give priority to applications from municipalities which have not received a grant of assistance under section 13-2704.01 within the last ten years.(3) Any grant of assistance under section 13-2704.01 shall be matched at least equally from local sources. At least fifty percent of the local match must be in cash.(4) To receive a grant of assistance under section 13-2704.01, the project for which the grant is requested shall be located in the municipality that applies for the grant or, for any city of the first class, city of the second class, or village, within the municipality's extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction.(5) To receive a grant of assistance under section 13-2704.01, the project for which the grant is requested shall involve an eligible facility that is owned by the municipality applying for the grant, except that a municipality may own an eligible facility jointly with a political subdivision if the municipality's ownership interest in such eligible facility is at least fifty percent. In any case, the municipality shall be the applicant for the grant of assistance.Source  Laws 1999, LB 382, § 19;  Laws 2003, LB 385, § 3;  Laws 2011, LB297, § 7;  Laws 2013, LB153, § 8;  Laws 2018, LB940, § 4;  Laws 2019, LB564, § 6.
NE Code § 13-2707.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2707.01 - Grant; engineering and technical studies; evaluation criteria.

13-2707.01.  Grant; engineering and technical studies; evaluation criteria.The department shall evaluate all applications for grants of assistance under section 13-2704.02 based on the following criteria:(1) Financial Support. Assistance from the fund shall be matched at least equally from local sources. At least fifty percent of the local match must be in cash. Projects with a higher level of local matching funds shall be preferred as compared to those with a lower level of matching funds; and(2) Project Location. Assistance from the fund shall be for engineering and technical studies related to projects that will be located in the municipality that applies for the grant or, for any city of the first class, city of the second class, or village, in the municipality's extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction.Source  Laws 2013, LB153, § 9;  Laws 2019, LB564, § 7.
NE Code § 13-2708 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2708 - Grant; approval.

13-2708.  Grant; approval.If a grant of assistance is approved by the department, the applicant shall receive conditional approval of the level of assistance. Projects shall receive funding from the fund in the order conditional approval is received and whenever there is sufficient money in the fund to provide the assistance. It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds to support projects which have received conditional approval from the department. A grant of assistance shall be finally approved when funds for the project are appropriated by the Legislature.Source  Laws 1999, LB 382, § 20;  Laws 2003, LB 385, § 4.
NE Code § 13-2710 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2710 - Rules and regulations.

13-2710.  Rules and regulations.The department shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Civic and Community Center Financing Act.Source  Laws 1999, LB 382, § 22;  Laws 2011, LB297, § 8.
NE Code § 13-2802 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2802 - Metropolitan utilities district; how treated.

13-2802.  Metropolitan utilities district; how treated.Whenever creation of a municipal county is proposed involving a city of the metropolitan class, the interjurisdictional planning commission shall include in its plan a recommendation with regard to the territory within which any metropolitan utilities district shall have and may exercise the power of eminent domain pursuant to subsection (2) of section 14-2116. The plan shall further include a recommendation with regard to the territory which shall be deemed to be within the corporate boundary limits or extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of a municipality or a municipality dissolved by the creation of the municipal county for purposes of the State Natural Gas Regulation Act. The question of creation of the municipal county shall not be submitted to a vote under section 13-2810 until a law adopting the provisions required by this section has been enacted.Source  Laws 2001, LB 142, § 2;  Laws 2006, LB 1249, § 1. Cross References  State Natural Gas Regulation Act, see section 66-1801.
NE Code § 13-2804 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2804 - Municipal county; powers and duties; provisions governing transition.

13-2804.  Municipal county; powers and duties; provisions governing transition.(1) A municipal county has the powers and duties of a county and shall fulfill the same role as other counties and county officials of the municipal county as would be applicable to a county of the same population as the municipal county. Any reference in law to counties shall be deemed to refer to a municipal county. A municipal county has the powers and duties of cities and villages as would be applicable to the largest municipality consolidated into the municipal county. Any reference in law to cities, villages, or municipalities shall be deemed to apply also to a municipal county.(2) On the date of creation of a municipal county, all ordinances, bylaws, acts, motions, rules, resolutions, and proclamations enacted by the governing body of each county or municipality involved shall continue in full force and effect, with respect to the counties and municipalities consolidated into the municipal county, until amended, repealed, or otherwise superseded by the council of the municipal county. All obligations, leases, and contracts of the counties or municipalities consolidated into the municipal county, except for bonded indebtedness, shall become obligations, leases, and contracts of the municipal county. In the event any utility, lease, franchise, or service area agreement has been entered into by or is applicable to a county or municipality involved, the utility, lease, franchise, or service area agreement shall be unaffected by the creation of the municipal county and unchanged by the elimination of the municipal or county boundaries. In the event any service area or territory in which powers of a political subdivision could be exercised or boundaries of a political subdivision were previously defined by reference, in whole or in part, to the boundaries of a participating municipality or county, the boundaries of such service area or territory or political subdivision, and the exercise of the powers of the political subdivision, shall be unaffected by the creation of a municipal county and unchanged by the elimination of the municipal or county boundaries.Source Laws 2001, LB 142, § 4.
NE Code § 13-2805 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2805 - Ordinances; adoption; procedure.

13-2805.  Ordinances; adoption; procedure.(1) A municipal county may adopt ordinances, and any such ordinances shall supersede those of any municipality or county consolidated into the municipal county.(2) All ordinances shall be passed pursuant to such rules and regulations as the council may provide, and all such ordinances may be proved by the certificate of the council. When printed or published in book or pamphlet form and purporting to be published by authority of the municipal county, such ordinances shall be read and received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof. The passage, approval, and publication or posting of an ordinance shall be sufficiently proved by a certificate from the council showing that the ordinance was passed and approved and when and in what newspaper the ordinance was published or when, by whom, and where the ordinance was posted. When ordinances are published in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be published by authority of the council, the same need not be otherwise published, and the book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the passage and legal publication of the ordinances, as of the dates mentioned in the book or pamphlet, in all courts without further proof.Source Laws 2001, LB 142, § 5.
NE Code § 13-2806 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2806 - Ordinances; requirements.

13-2806.  Ordinances; requirements.(1) All ordinances and resolutions or orders for the appropriation or payment of money shall require for their passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of all members of the council.(2) Ordinances of a general or permanent nature shall be read by title on three different days unless three-fourths of the members vote to suspend this requirement.(3) Ordinances shall contain no subject which is not clearly expressed in the title, and, except as provided in section 19-915, no ordinance or section thereof shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance contains the entire ordinance or section as revised or amended and the ordinance or section so amended is repealed, except that for an ordinance revising all the ordinances of the municipal county the only title necessary shall be: "An ordinance of the municipal county of .........., revising all the ordinances of the municipal county." Under such title, all the ordinances may be revised in sections and chapters or otherwise, may be corrected, added to, and any part suppressed, and may be repealed with or without a saving clause as to the whole or any part without other title.Source Laws 2001, LB 142, § 6.
NE Code § 13-2807 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2807 - Ordinance; form; publication; emergency.

13-2807.  Ordinance; form; publication; emergency.The style of ordinances shall be: "Be it ordained by the council of the municipal county of ................," and all ordinances of a general nature shall, within fifteen days after they are passed, be published in one or more newspapers in general circulation within the municipal county, or in pamphlet form, to be distributed or sold, as may be provided by ordinance. Every ordinance fixing a penalty or forfeiture for its violation shall, before the same takes effect, be published for at least one week in one or more newspapers in general circulation within the municipal county. In cases of riots, infectious diseases, or other impending danger, or any other emergency requiring its immediate operation, such ordinance shall take effect upon the proclamation of the council immediately upon its first publication.Source Laws 2001, LB 142, § 7.
NE Code § 13-2808 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2808 - Levy authorized; allocations.

13-2808.  Levy authorized; allocations.A municipal county may levy up to one dollar per one hundred dollars of taxable value, not including bonded indebtedness. From the levy authority of the municipal county, the municipal county may allocate to miscellaneous political subdivisions as provided in section 77-3443. In no event shall the levies of the municipal county and any miscellaneous political subdivisions allocated levy authority by the municipal county total more than one dollar per one hundred dollars of taxable value on any one parcel in the municipal county, except for bonded indebtedness approved according to law, lease-purchase agreements approved prior to July 1, 1998, and judgments obtained against the municipal county or one of its predecessors which obligate the municipal county to pay the judgments to the extent not paid by liability insurance and except as provided in section 77-3444.Source Laws 2001, LB 142, § 8.
NE Code § 13-2809 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2809 - Municipalities and fire protection districts within municipal county; treatment.

13-2809.  Municipalities and fire protection districts within municipal county; treatment.(1) An area within the boundaries of a municipality which remains within the boundaries of a municipal county and is not consolidated into the municipal county at the time of the formation of the municipal county shall not be considered to be part of the municipal county for any purpose. Such a municipality shall not be annexed by the municipal county, and such a municipality shall not annex any territory, for at least four years after the date of creation of the municipal county. Such a municipality shall retain:(a) The authority to levy property taxes, not to exceed ninety cents per one hundred dollars of taxable value except as provided in sections 77-3442 and 77-3444; and(b) All the other powers and duties applicable to a municipality of the same population with the same form of government in effect on the date of creation of the municipal county, including, but not limited to, its zoning jurisdiction and the authority to impose a tax as provided in the Local Option Revenue Act.(2) In order to provide economical and efficient services, a municipality within the boundaries of a municipal county may annex adjacent territory within the municipal county if the municipal county consents. Consent shall be granted if the services will be provided by the municipality within the annexed territory at less cost than similar services provided by the municipal county.(3) All fire protection districts which are within the boundaries of a municipal county shall continue to exist after formation of the municipal county.Source  Laws 2001, LB 142, § 9;  Laws 2015, LB325, § 2.  Cross References  Local Option Revenue Act, see section 77-27,148.
NE Code § 13-2811 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2811 - Approval of formation of municipal county; effect.

13-2811.  Approval of formation of municipal county; effect.Approval of the formation of a municipal county shall abolish all county and municipal offices at the end of the then current officeholders' terms except as provided in subsection (3) of section 13-2803 and shall terminate all townships located within the municipal county. All debt of abolished counties and municipalities consolidated into a municipal county shall remain the responsibility of the county or municipality responsible at the time consolidation is approved.Source Laws 2001, LB 142, § 11.
NE Code § 13-2813 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-2813 - Sales and use tax authorized.

13-2813.  Sales and use tax authorized.(1) A municipal county by ordinance of its council may impose a sales and use tax of one-half percent, one percent, or one and one-half percent upon the same transactions within the entire municipal county on which the state is authorized to impose a tax pursuant to the Nebraska Revenue Act of 1967, as amended from time to time.(2) A municipal county shall not impose a new sales and use tax, increase the tax, or extend the territory of an existing sales and use tax until an election is held and a majority of the registered voters as provided in section 13-2810 have approved the tax, increase, or extension. The ballot issue proposing approval of a new sales and use tax or the increase or territorial extension of an existing sales and use tax may be combined with the issue proposing creation of a municipal county.Source Laws 2001, LB 142, § 13.Cross References  Nebraska Revenue Act of 1967, see section 77-2701.