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NE Code § 13-1119 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1119 - Change of boundaries; exclusion of tracts.

13-1119.  Change of boundaries; exclusion of tracts.The boundaries of a designated industrial area may be changed to exclude one or more tracts, or parts of tracts, of real estate within the area upon the request of the owner or owners of the tracts, or parts of tracts, proposed to be excluded, and by the owners filing a petition, publishing a notice thereof, and having a hearing on the petition in the same manner as when an original petition to designate a contiguous tract as an industrial area is filed. The county clerk of the county in which the tract proposed to be excluded is situated shall cause a copy of the published notice to be mailed by certified mail, within five days after the first publication of the notice, to each of the owners of record and other persons, if any, in possession of the real estate not proposed to be excluded from the industrial area, whose addresses are known to the county clerk. After the hearing, if the county board shall find that the best interests of the community and the industrial area will be served by the exclusion of the tracts, the county board shall enter an order excluding the tracts, or parts of tracts, requested to be excluded. When a certified copy of such order is filed with the register of deeds and county assessor of the county or counties in which the real estate excluded is located, such tracts, or parts of tracts, shall no longer be an industrial area.Source   Laws 1975, LB 151, § 1;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-2509.
NE Code § 13-1120 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1120 - Termination of designation.

13-1120.  Termination of designation.When the owner or owners of all of the contiguous tracts of real estate designated as an industrial area as provided by sections 13-1111 to 13-1118, shall file with the county board of the county in which such real estate is located, or the greater portion of such real estate, a petition requesting that the designation of the whole of the real estate as an industrial area be terminated, the county board shall enter an order determining that such real estate shall no longer be an industrial area. When a certified copy of such order is filed with the register of deeds and county assessor of the county or counties in which the real estate is located, such real estate shall no longer be an industrial area.Source   Laws 1975, LB 151, § 2;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-2510.
NE Code § 13-1121 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1121 - Designation; review by county board; notice; hearing; removal of designation.

13-1121.  Designation; review by county board; notice; hearing; removal of designation.Beginning in 1980 and every even-numbered year thereafter during the month of March, the appropriate county board may, of its own volition or shall, at the request of the municipal governing body having zoning jurisdiction over the designated industrial tract, review any or all industrial areas in its jurisdiction. When the review is at the request of the municipal governing body having zoning jurisdiction over the designated industrial tract, the county board shall notify such municipal governing body of the date, time, and location of the review. If the county board determines during the review that there is a problem with the industrial area designation of any tract, or a portion of such tract, the county board shall give notice of a hearing by registered or certified mail to the owners of the tract, or a portion of such tract, if such owners are known, within ninety days prior to the hearing, and if the owners are not known or cannot be located, then by publishing a notice three successive weeks in some newspaper published and of general circulation in the county or counties in which the real estate is located, and if no newspaper is published in the county, such notice shall be published in some newspaper having a general circulation in such county. If after the hearing the county board finds that the industrial area or a portion thereof is no longer suitable for industrial purposes, or is being used for nonindustrial enterprises, or has had no improvements or industrial buildings thereon within seven years from the date of original industrial designation, or is not in compliance with the zoning ordinances of any city or village exercising zoning control of it, or is not platted in accordance with such zoning ordinances or is no longer in compliance with the definition of industry as set forth in section 13-1111, such county board shall remove the designation of industrial area from such tract or portion of such tract. Any tract or portion of such tract used or reserved for industry prior to August 24, 1979, shall not be removed from the industrial area designation against the wishes of its owners as long as the use of such tract or portion continues to be in compliance with the definition of industry as set forth in section 13-1111. A certified copy of such order shall be filed with the register of deeds and the county assessor of the county or counties in which the real estate is located.Source   Laws 1979, LB 217, § 8;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-2511.
NE Code § 13-1201 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1201 - Act, how cited.

13-1201.  Act, how cited.Sections 13-1201 to 13-1214 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Public Transportation Act.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 5;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3901;   Laws 1993, LB 158, § 1;   Laws 1993, LB 575, § 1.
NE Code § 13-1202 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1202 - Legislative findings.

13-1202.  Legislative findings.The Legislature finds that: (1) Transportation is a critical need of the elderly, handicapped, and others without access to the private automobile; (2) public transportation is a viable alternative to help meet the transportation needs in urban and rural areas; (3) transportation which promotes fuel conservation and reduces traffic congestion should be encouraged; (4) public transportation in the rural and small urban areas of the state is lacking; (5) public transportation in many instances is no longer a profitable undertaking for private enterprise acting alone; (6) public subsidy of public transportation, whether privately or publicly operated, is often necessary to provide needed transportation services; (7) the variety of federal, state, and local activities in providing public transportation services require maximum coordination for maximum benefit from public resources; (8) providers of public transportation may require technical assistance in addressing their public transportation needs; and (9) it is in the public interest of the people of the state to develop programs which provide for the concerns enumerated in this section and which insure the health, safety, and welfare of Nebraska citizens in both urban and rural areas.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 6;   Laws 1981, LB 144, § 1;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3902.
NE Code § 13-1203 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1203 - Terms, defined.

13-1203.  Terms, defined.For purposes of the Nebraska Public Transportation Act, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) Public transportation shall mean the transport of passengers on a regular and continuing basis by motor carrier for hire, whether over regular or irregular routes, over any public road in this state, including city bus systems, intercity bus systems, special public transportation systems to include portal-to-portal escorted service for the elderly or handicapped, taxi, subscription, dial-a-ride, or other demand-responsive systems, and those motor carriers for hire which may carry elderly or handicapped individuals for a set fare, a donation, or at no cost to such individuals. Public transportation shall not include motor carriers for hire when engaged in the transportation of school children and teachers to and from school and school-related activities and shall not include private car pools;(2) Department shall mean the Department of Transportation;(3) Director shall mean the Director-State Engineer;(4) Elderly shall mean any person sixty-two years of age or older who is drawing social security and every person sixty-five years of age and older;(5) Handicapped shall mean any individual who is unable without special facilities or special planning or design to utilize public transportation facilities and services;(6) Municipality shall mean any village or incorporated city, except cities of the metropolitan class operating under home rule charter;(7) Qualified public-purpose organization shall mean an incorporated private not-for-profit group or agency which:(a) Has operated or proposes to operate only motor vehicles having a seating capacity of twenty or less for the transportation of passengers in the state;(b) Has been approved as capable of providing public transportation services by the appropriate city or county governing body; and(c) Operates or proposes to operate a public transportation service in an area which the department has identified as not being adequately served by existing public or private transportation services pursuant to section 13-1205; and(8) Intercity bus system shall mean a system of regularly scheduled bus service for the general public which operates with limited stops over fixed routes connecting two or more communities or areas not in close proximity which support public transportation service. At least one terminus of the intercity bus system shall be in an area that makes meaningful connections with intercity service to more distant points.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 7;   Laws 1977, LB 374, § 1;   Laws 1981, LB 144, § 2;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3903;   Laws 1993, LB 158, § 2;  Laws 2017, LB339, § 75.
NE Code § 13-1204 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1204 - Department; coordinating and technical assistance agency; contracts authorized.

13-1204.  Department; coordinating and technical assistance agency; contracts authorized.The department shall be the principal state agency responsible for coordinating public transportation activities in the state and, when requested, shall provide technical assistance to improve Nebraska's public transportation system. The department may contract pursuant to the Nebraska Public Transportation Act to assist state agencies, political subdivisions, and public and qualified public-purpose organizations to provide public transportation services as specified in the act.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 8;   Laws 1981, LB 144, § 3;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3904;   Laws 1993, LB 158, § 3.
NE Code § 13-1205 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1205 - Department; powers, duties, and responsibilities; enumerated.

13-1205.  Department; powers, duties, and responsibilities; enumerated.The department shall have the following powers, duties, and responsibilities:(1) To collect and maintain data on the level of public transportation services and needs in the state and identify areas not being adequately served by existing public or private transportation services;(2) To assess the regional and statewide effect of changes, improvement, and route abandonments in the state's public transportation system;(3) To develop a six-year statewide transit plan and programs for public transportation in coordination with local plans and programs developed by municipalities, counties, transit authorities, and regional metropolitan transit authorities;(4) To provide planning and technical assistance to agencies of the state, political subdivisions, or groups seeking to improve public transportation;(5) To advise, consult, and cooperate with agencies of the state, the federal government, and other states, interstate agencies, political subdivisions, and groups concerned with public transportation;(6) To cooperate with the Public Service Commission by providing periodic assessments to the commission when determining the effect of proposed regulatory decisions on public transportation;(7) To administer federal and state programs providing financial assistance to public transportation, except those federal and state programs in which a municipality, county, transit authority, regional metropolitan transit authority, or other state agency is designated as the administrator; and(8) To exercise all other powers necessary and proper for the discharge of its duties, including the adoption and promulgation of reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the Nebraska Public Transportation Act.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 9;   Laws 1979, LB 322, § 4;   Laws 1981, LB 545, § 4;   Laws 1981, LB 144, § 4;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3905;   Laws 1993, LB 158, § 4;  Laws 2012, LB782, § 16;  Laws 2013, LB222, § 3;  Laws 2019, LB492, § 28.
NE Code § 13-1206 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1206 - Department; receive gifts, grants, loans, contributions, and other funds; conditions.

13-1206.  Department; receive gifts, grants, loans, contributions, and other funds; conditions.The department may receive, contract for, or apply for and receive gifts, grants, loans, contributions, and other funds from the federal or state government or from any public or private sources for the purpose of carrying out the Nebraska Public Transportation Act. Any contract between the department and the federal government entered into pursuant to this section may include all reasonable and appropriate conditions imposed by federal law or regulation which are not inconsistent with the purposes of the act.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 10;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3906;   Laws 1993, LB 158, § 5.
NE Code § 13-1207 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1207 - Department of Health and Human Services; review rules and regulations and the awarding of funds.

13-1207.  Department of Health and Human Services; review rules and regulations and the awarding of funds.Prior to the promulgation of rules and regulations pursuant to section 13-1212, and prior to the awarding of federal or state funds under any program administered by the department or any other state agency which affects the transportation of the elderly, such rules and regulations and the awarding of such funds shall be reviewed by the Department of Health and Human Services.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 11;   Laws 1984, LB 635, § 1;   R.S.Supp.,1986, § 19-3907;   Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 53;  Laws 2007, LB296, § 23.
NE Code § 13-1209 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1209 - Assistance program; established; state financial assistance; limitation.

13-1209.  Assistance program; established; state financial assistance; limitation.(1) A public transportation assistance program is hereby established to provide state assistance for the capital acquisition and operating costs of public transportation systems.(2) Any municipality, county, transit authority, regional metropolitan transit authority, or qualified public-purpose organization shall be eligible to receive financial assistance for the eligible capital acquisition and operating costs of a public transportation system, whether the applicant directly operates such system or contracts for its operation. A qualified public-purpose organization shall not be eligible for financial assistance under the Nebraska Public Transportation Act if such organization is currently receiving state funds for a program which includes transportation services and such funding and services would be duplicated by the act. Eligible operating costs include those expenses incurred in the operation of a public transportation system which exceed the amount of operating revenue and which are not otherwise eligible for reimbursement from any available federal programs other than those administered by the United States Department of the Treasury. Eligible capital acquisition costs include investments in the purchase, replacement, and rebuilding of buses and other vehicles used for public transportation.(3) The state grant to an applicant shall not exceed fifty percent of the eligible capital acquisition or operating costs of the public transportation system as provided for in subsection (2) of this section. The amount of state funds shall be matched by an equal amount of local funds in support of capital acquisition or operating costs.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 13;   Laws 1981, LB 144, § 6;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3909;   Laws 1993, LB 158, § 6;  Laws 2016, LB977, § 1;  Laws 2019, LB492, § 29.
NE Code § 13-1210 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1210 - Assistance program; department; certify funding; report.

13-1210.  Assistance program; department; certify funding; report.(1) The department shall annually certify the amount of capital acquisition and operating costs eligible for funding under the public transportation assistance program established under section 13-1209.(2) The department shall submit an annual report to the chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Legislature on or before December 1 of each year regarding funds requested by each applicant for eligible capital acquisition and operating costs in the current fiscal year pursuant to subsection (2) of section 13-1209 and the total amount of state grants projected to be awarded in the current fiscal year pursuant to the public transportation assistance program. The report submitted to the committee shall be submitted electronically. The report shall separate into two categories the requests and grants awarded for handicapped vans, otherwise known as paratransit vehicles, and requests and grants awarded for handicapped-accessible fixed-route bus systems.Source   Laws 1980, LB 722, § 12;   Laws 1986, LB 599, § 3;   R.S.Supp.,1986, § 19-3909.01;  Laws 2004, LB 1144, § 1;  Laws 2008, LB1068, § 1;  Laws 2012, LB782, § 17;  Laws 2016, LB977, § 2;  Laws 2017, LB339, § 76.
NE Code § 13-1211 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1211 - City bus system receiving state funds; reduced fares for elderly or handicapped persons.

13-1211.  City bus system receiving state funds; reduced fares for elderly or handicapped persons.The fares charged elderly or handicapped persons shall not exceed one-half of the rates generally applicable to other persons at peak hours for each one-way trip for any city bus system operating over regularly scheduled routes and receiving state funds pursuant to the Nebraska Public Transportation Act. The recipient of state funds under the act may designate certain peak hours during which this section shall not apply.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 14;   Laws 1982, LB 942, § 2;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3910;   Laws 1993, LB 158, § 7.
NE Code § 13-1211.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1211.01 - City bus system receiving state funds; reduced fares for low-income persons.

13-1211.01.  City bus system receiving state funds; reduced fares for low-income persons.Recipients of state funds under the Nebraska Public Transportation Act for any city bus system operating over regularly scheduled routes in cities of the primary and metropolitan classes may provide or designate that fares charged low-income persons may be discounted up to one-half of the rates generally applicable to other persons at peak hours for each one-way trip. Such recipient of state funds under the act may designate certain peak hours during which this section shall not apply. For purposes of this section, low-income persons shall mean persons whose income is at or below one hundred fifty percent of the current amount determined and published periodically by the federal government as the national poverty income level without regard to other resources.Source  Laws 1993, LB 575, § 2.
NE Code § 13-1212 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 13 - Cities, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions|13-1212 - Department; rules and regulations; duties; public-purpose organization; denied financial assistance; petition; hearing.

13-1212.  Department; rules and regulations; duties; public-purpose organization; denied financial assistance; petition; hearing.(1) The department shall administer sections 13-1209 to 13-1212, and shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act as are necessary, including but not limited to defining eligible capital acquisition and operating costs, establishing contractual and other requirements including standardized accounting and reporting requirements, which shall include the applicant's proposed service area, the type of service proposed, all routes and schedules, and any further information needed for recipients to ensure the maximum feasible coordination and use of state funds, establishing application procedures, and developing a policy for apportioning funds made available for this program should they be insufficient to cover all eligible projects. Priority on the allocation of all funds shall be given to those proposed projects best suited to serve the needs of the elderly and handicapped and to proposed projects with federal funding participation.(2) Any public-purpose organization proposing to provide public transportation denied financial assistance as a result of a determination by the department that an area is adequately served by existing transportation services may submit a petition to the department requesting the department to reclassify the proposed service area as not being adequately served by existing public transportation services. The petition submitted to the department by the public-purpose organization shall bear the signatures of at least fifty registered voters residing in the proposed service area. Upon receipt of the petition the department shall hold a public hearing in the proposed service area and after such hearing shall determine whether the proposed service area is already adequately served. In carrying out its duties under this section the department shall comply with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. The department shall not be required to conduct a reevaluation hearing for an area more frequently than once a year.Source   Laws 1975, LB 443, § 15;   Laws 1981, LB 144, § 7;   R.S.1943, (1983), § 19-3911;  Laws 2016, LB977, § 3;  Laws 2017, LB339, § 77.  Cross References  Administrative Procedure Act, see section 84-920.