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NE Code § 70-648 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-648 - Receivership; when authorized; discharge of receiver; when.

70-648.  Receivership; when authorized; discharge of receiver; when.The board of directors of any district organized under or subject to Chapter 70, article 6, issuing revenue debentures, notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness is hereby also authorized and empowered to agree and contract with the purchasers or holders thereof that in the event of default in the payment of interest on, or principal of, any such revenue debentures, notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness, issued, or in the event of default in the performance of any duty or obligation under any agreement by such district, the holder or holders of such revenue debentures, notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness then outstanding shall be entitled as a matter of right, upon application to a court of competent jurisdiction, to have appointed a receiver of the business and property of the district, including all tolls, rents, revenue, issues, income, receipts, profits, benefits, and additions derived, received or had thereof or therefrom, with power to operate and maintain such business and property, collect, receive, and apply all revenue, income, profits, and receipts arising therefrom, and prescribe rates, tolls, and charges, in the same way and manner as the district might do. Whenever all defaults in the payment of principal of, and interest on, such revenue debentures, notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness, and any other defaults under any agreement made by the district, shall have been made good, such receiver shall be discharged by the court and shall therefor surrender control of the business and possession of the property in his or her hands to the district.Source   Laws 1937, c. 152, § 7, p. 587;   Laws 1939, c. 88, § 1, p. 382;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-712;   Laws 1943, c. 146, § 6, p. 527;   R.S.1943, § 70-648;   Laws 1981, LB 181, § 25.
NE Code § 70-649 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-649 - Plant and system; sale to public agency; authorized; transfer of distribution facilities; restrictions; exception.

70-649.  Plant and system; sale to public agency; authorized; transfer of distribution facilities; restrictions; exception.Any public power district or public power and irrigation district may sell to any public power district, public power and irrigation district, irrigation district, city or village, any power plant, electric generating plant, electric distribution system, or any parts thereof, for such sums and upon such terms as the board of directors of such public power district or public power and irrigation district may deem fair and reasonable. As a part of an agreement establishing retail service areas pursuant to section 70-1002, a district may transfer distribution facilities having a rating of less than fifteen thousand volts to a nonprofit rural electric membership corporation in exchange for similar facilities transferred to the district by the membership corporation with a net cash differential to be paid by either party not to exceed ten thousand dollars in any one transaction, but this restriction shall not apply to a sale, transfer or lease of property to a nonprofit electric cooperative corporation engaged in the retail distribution of electric energy in established service areas and which cooperative corporations are organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska or domesticated in the State of Nebraska; Provided, that such property so acquired by a nonprofit electric cooperative corporation shall never become the property or come under the control of any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of generating, transmitting or distributing electricity for profit.Source   Laws 1939, c. 88, § 1, p. 382;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-712;   Laws 1943, c. 146, § 6, p. 528;   R.S.1943, § 70-649;   Laws 1963, c. 397, § 21, p. 1267;   Laws 1969, c. 551, § 2, p. 2209.
NE Code § 70-651.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-651.01 - Districts; payments in lieu of taxes.

70-651.01.  Districts; payments in lieu of taxes.Every public power district or public power and irrigation district owning property with respect to which it made payments in lieu of taxes in the 1957 calendar year, shall, so long as it continues to own such property, continue to pay annually the same amounts in the same manner. The directors of any such district shall not have any personal liability by reason of such payments made either before or after September 28, 1959.Source  Laws 1959, c. 317, § 1, p. 1163.
NE Code § 70-651.02 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-651.02 - Districts; payments in lieu of taxes; distribution; use.

70-651.02.  Districts; payments in lieu of taxes; distribution; use.The officer receiving payment under section 70-651.01 shall distribute to the state and to each governmental subdivision of the state entitled thereto a part of such payment equivalent to that part of the payment which it received in 1957 in lieu of taxes for property located within its boundaries. The payment may be used for such purposes as the governing body of the state or governmental subdivision prescribes.Source  Laws 1959, c. 317, § 2, p. 1163.
NE Code § 70-651.03 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-651.03 - Districts; gross revenue tax; how determined.

70-651.03.  Districts; gross revenue tax; how determined.Beginning in 1960, every public corporation and political subdivision of the state, which is organized primarily to provide electricity or irrigation and electricity, and which sells electricity at retail within incorporated cities or villages, shall on or before April 1, of each year, pay to the county treasurer of the county in which any such incorporated city or village may be located, a sum equivalent to five percent of the gross revenue derived by it during the preceding calendar year from retail sales of electricity within such incorporated city or village, less an amount equivalent to the amount paid by such public corporation in lieu of taxes in the 1957 calendar year with respect to its properties in such city or village.Source  Laws 1959, c. 317, § 3, p. 1163.
NE Code § 70-651.04 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-651.04 - Districts; gross revenue tax; distribution.

70-651.04.  Districts; gross revenue tax; distribution.All payments which are based on retail revenue from each incorporated city or village shall be divided and distributed by the county treasurer to that city or village, to the school districts located in that city or village, to any learning community located in that city or village for payments distributed prior to September 1, 2017, and to the county in which may be located any such incorporated city or village in the proportion that their respective property tax levies in the preceding year bore to the total of such levies, except that the only learning community levies to be included are the common levies for which the proceeds are distributed to member school districts pursuant to section 79-1073.Source   Laws 1959, c. 317, § 4, p. 1164;   Laws 1979, LB 187, § 183;   Laws 1993, LB 346, § 6;   Laws 1995, LB 732, § 1;  Laws 2010, LB1070, § 2;  Laws 2016, LB1067, § 7.
NE Code § 70-651.05 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-651.05 - Public power districts; payment made in lieu of other taxes and fees; exceptions.

70-651.05.  Public power districts; payment made in lieu of other taxes and fees; exceptions.All payments made under sections 70-651.01 to 70-651.05 shall be in lieu of all other taxes, payments in lieu of taxes, franchise payments, occupation taxes, and excise taxes but shall not be in lieu of motor vehicle licenses and wheel taxes, permit fees, fuel taxes, and other such excise taxes or general sales taxes levied against the public generally.Source   Laws 1959, c. 317, § 5, p. 1164;   Laws 1997, LB 271, § 37;   Laws 1998, LB 306, § 16.
NE Code § 70-653.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-653.01 - Electric distribution system; purchase by city or village; payment in lieu of taxes.

70-653.01.  Electric distribution system; purchase by city or village; payment in lieu of taxes.Any city or village which has purchased or acquired before June 10, 1947, the plant or property of an existing electric distribution system furnishing electric energy for heat, light, power or other purposes for use within such city or village from any public power district or public power and irrigation district may annually pay out of the revenue of such system to the State of Nebraska, county, city, village or school district in which such public utility is located, in lieu of taxes, a sum equal to the amount which the state, county, city, village or school district received in lieu of taxes from the public power district or public power and irrigation district.Source  Laws 1947, c. 227, § 1, p. 721.
NE Code § 70-653.02 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-653.02 - Cities and villages; payment in lieu of taxes; how paid.

70-653.02.  Cities and villages; payment in lieu of taxes; how paid.All sums of money to be paid by such cities or villages in lieu of taxes may be paid at the times, places, and to the tax-collecting officers, as now or may hereafter be provided by law for the payment of taxes, as long as such city or village shall continue to be the owner of such property, and such tax-collecting officers are hereby authorized and directed to receive and collect the same and distribute all money so received to the governmental subdivisions entitled thereto.Source  Laws 1947, c. 227, § 2, p. 722.
NE Code § 70-658 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-658 - Existing utility; lease, purchase, or acquisition by district; franchise and contracts; compliance required.

70-658.  Existing utility; lease, purchase, or acquisition by district; franchise and contracts; compliance required.In the event that any such district shall lease, purchase or acquire, in any manner, the generating plant, distribution system or other property of an existing utility then or theretofore furnishing electrical energy for heat, light, power, or other purposes, for the use or benefit of any city, of whatever class, or village in the State of Nebraska, or its inhabitants, and for use within the corporate limits of such city or village, such district shall be bound by, shall carry out, and shall perform the terms and conditions of any franchise or contract assigned to such district, and shall comply with the provisions of any existing applicable laws or ordinances under which such existing utility, such district's predecessor or assignor, operated at the time such lease, purchase or acquisition of the generating plant, distribution system or other property of such existing utility shall have been made.Source   Laws 1939, c. 89, §1, p. 388;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-713;   R.S.1943, § 70-658.
NE Code § 70-659 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-659 - Operation within city or village by district; franchise required.

70-659.  Operation within city or village by district; franchise required.Any such district shall be required at all times to have a valid and subsisting franchise, either running to it as original grantee from such city or village, or assigned to it by or through a grantee of the city or village, if such district proposes to generate, distribute and sell, or to distribute and sell, electrical energy to such city or village or to its inhabitants, as a condition precedent to the operation of such district's electric utility or utilities within such city or village, in every case and to the same extent as where a private corporation is required to have such valid and subsisting franchise to operate its electric utility or utilities within such city or village.Source   Laws 1939, c. 89, § 1, p. 388;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-713;   R.S.1943, § 70-659. Annotations A public power project is to extend its lines into another municipal corporation's boundaries only upon contract, agreement, or franchise. Central Power Co. v. Nebraska City, 112 F.2d 471 (8th Cir. 1940).
NE Code § 70-660 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-660 - Franchise to operate utility; terms and conditions; rates prescribed.

70-660.  Franchise to operate utility; terms and conditions; rates prescribed.All franchises granted by a city or village to any such district, to operate such district's electric utility or utilities within the corporate limits of such city or village, may provide the maximum rates that may be charged by such district for furnishing electrical energy to such city or village, or to its inhabitants, during the franchise period. Such franchises shall be granted in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as may now or hereafter be provided by law for granting franchises to private corporations by such cities or villages.Source   Laws 1939, c. 89, § 1, p. 388;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-713;   R.S.1943, § 70-660.
NE Code § 70-661 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-661 - Contracts with city or village; terms and conditions.

70-661.  Contracts with city or village; terms and conditions.Contracts, other than franchises, which such city or village is empowered to make with any such district to furnish such city or village, or its inhabitants, with electrical energy, shall be made in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as such city or village is now or hereafter empowered to make with any private corporation to furnish such city or village, or its inhabitants, with electrical energy.Source   Laws 1939, c. 89, §1, p. 388;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-713;   R.S.1943, § 70-661. Annotations Under former act, concluding proviso of this section was unconstitutional as special legislation. State ex rel. Johnson v. Consumers Public Power Dist., 143 Neb. 753, 10 N.W.2d 784 (1943).
NE Code § 70-662 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-662 - District; filings; amendments to petition for creation; amendments to charter; authorized; restriction.

70-662.  District; filings; amendments to petition for creation; amendments to charter; authorized; restriction.(1) A petition for the creation of a district organized under or subject to the provisions of Chapter 70, article 6, may be amended as provided in this section. Any district, now existing or hereafter created under or subject to Chapter 70, article 6, may file with the Nebraska Power Review Board a petition to amend its charter to eliminate, detach, or reduce area from or add to, increase, or enlarge its chartered territory as required or authorized by Chapter 70, article 6, or subdivide area and territory from within the boundaries of such district, or amend its charter to provide for a change in the general description of the nature of the business in which the district is engaged and the location and method of operation of the power plants and systems or irrigation works of the district proposed in its charter, as long as the plants, systems, and works, the operation of the same, the exercise of powers, and the assumption of duties and responsibilities, of or on the part of such district, do not nullify, conflict with, or materially affect those of, or on the part of, any other district.(2) Any such district may amend its charter to provide for a change in its name or a change in the location of its principal place of business and may reduce or increase the number of members of its board of directors. No such elimination or detachment, increase or enlargement, or subdivision of the territory of a district, change in its principal place of business, its name, or the number of members of its board of directors, or change in the general description of the nature of its business or methods of operation shall occur unless authorized by the affirmative vote of three-fifths of all the directors of the district involved.Source   Laws 1937, c. 152, § 9, p. 589;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-717;   R.S.1943, § 70-662;   Laws 1945, c. 158, § 1, p. 521;   Laws 1955, c. 267, § 5, p. 845;   Laws 1957, c. 291, § 1, p. 1046;   Laws 1981, LB 181, § 27;   Laws 1986, LB 949, § 14.  Annotations  District may amend its charter. Schroll v. City of Beatrice, 169 Neb. 162, 98 N.W.2d 790 (1959). Approved petition is charter of the district. Custer Public Power Dist. v. Loup River Public Power Dist., 162 Neb. 300, 75 N.W.2d 619 (1956).
NE Code § 70-664 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-664 - Amendment; board approval; certificate; filing.

70-664.  Amendment; board approval; certificate; filing.Unless it shall appear affirmatively that the adoption of such proposed amendment will be contrary to the best interests of such district, or that it will jeopardize and impair the rights of the creditors of such districts, or of other persons, the Nebraska Power Review Board shall issue in duplicate a certificate of approval of such proposed amendment, and cause one copy to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Nebraska and one copy to be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which is located the principal place of business of the district.Source   Laws 1937, c. 152, § 9, p. 589;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-717;   R.S.1943, § 70-664;   Laws 1981, LB 181, § 29.
NE Code § 70-665 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-665 - Amendment; when effective.

70-665.  Amendment; when effective.Such proposed amendment shall become effective and in full force immediately upon the issuance of such certificate of approval by the Nebraska Power Review Board. Thereupon and thereafter the district shall, as in case of the original district, be a public corporation and political subdivision, and operate and function accordingly in such reduced and subdivided area, or such increased and enlarged area, under or subject to the terms, powers, privileges, and conditions of Chapter 70, article 6.Source   Laws 1937, c. 152, § 9, p. 589;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-717;   R.S.1943, § 70-665;   Laws 1981, LB 181, § 30.
NE Code § 70-666 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-666 - Dissolution; procedure.

70-666.  Dissolution; procedure.Whenever a petition signed by a majority of the members of the board of directors or by twenty-five or more qualified electors of the state residing within the territorial boundaries of any district organized under or subject to Chapter 70, article 6, shall be presented to the Nebraska Power Review Board, praying for the dissolution of such district, and it shall appear from the petition that such district has no property of any kind, owes no debts of any kind, that the district is not functioning, has ceased to function, and probably will not function in the future, the Nebraska Power Review Board shall forthwith publish a notice for three consecutive weeks in the legal newspaper published in the district which has the largest circulation therein, or, if no legal newspaper is published in the district, then in any legal newspaper widely circulated therein, setting forth, in substance and in a clear and concise manner, the nature and prayer of the petition, and setting a time and place for a public hearing by the Nebraska Power Review Board upon the petition. After such hearing and such independent investigation as may be deemed advisable, the Nebraska Power Review Board shall grant or reject the prayer of the petition, and, if the prayer of the petition is granted, the Nebraska Power Review Board shall thereupon issue its certificate declaring the district dissolved and terminated. One duly certified copy of such certificate shall be immediately filed by the Nebraska Power Review Board in its office with the original organization records of the district. The Nebraska Power Review Board shall also immediately file one such certified copy in the office of the Secretary of State, and another such certified copy in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the principal place of business of such district was last located. The district shall thereupon be dissolved and cease to exist. The persons filing such petition for dissolution shall advance and pay the necessary expense incurred by the Nebraska Power Review Board in the investigations made, and the proceedings and hearings held or conducted, pursuant to the provisions of this section.Source   Laws 1935, c. 146, § 1, p. 541;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-716;   Laws 1943, c. 146, § 7, p. 530;   R.S.1943, § 70-666;   Laws 1981, LB 181, § 31.
NE Code § 70-668 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-668 - Streams; water rights; priority.

70-668.  Streams; water rights; priority.In applying the provisions of law relating to the appropriation of water, priority of appropriation shall give the better right as between those using the water for the same purpose, but when the waters of any natural stream are not sufficient for the use of all those desiring to use the same, those using the water for domestic purposes shall have preference over those claiming it for any other purpose. Those using the water for agricultural purposes shall have the preference over those using the same for manufacturing purposes, and those using the water for agricultural purposes shall have the preference over those using the same for power purposes, where turbine or impulse water wheels are installed, or for instream-basin-management purposes.Source   Laws 1933, c. 86, § 7, p. 349;   Laws 1941, c. 138, § 1, p. 545;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-707;   R.S.1943, § 70-668;  Laws 2016, LB1038, § 13.  Annotations A preferential use is given to waters used for irrigation purposes over waters used for power purposes. Hickman v. Loup River P. P. Dist., 173 Neb. 428, 113 N.W.2d 617 (1962).
NE Code § 70-669 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 70 - Power Districts and Corporations|70-669 - Streams; inferior rights; acquired by superior right; how compensated.

70-669.  Streams; inferior rights; acquired by superior right; how compensated.No inferior right to the use of the waters of this state shall be acquired by a superior right without just compensation therefor to the inferior user. The just compensation paid to those using water for power purposes shall not be greater than the cost of replacing the power which would be generated in the plant or plants of the power user by the water so acquired. The just compensation to be paid to a holder of an instream-basin-management appropriation that has been changed from a manufacturing of hydropower appropriation pursuant to section 46-290 shall be the cost per acre-foot of water subordinated for the hydropower appropriation at the time of approval of the change. The amount of compensation may be adjusted annually, except that any increase shall not exceed the annual change in the Consumer Price Index from the time of approval of the change. If publication of such index is discontinued, a comparable index selected by the Director of Natural Resources shall be used.Source   Laws 1933, c. 86, § 7, p. 349;   Laws 1941, c. 138, § 1, p. 545;   C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-707;   R.S.1943, § 70-669;  Laws 2016, LB1038, § 14.  Annotations Right to use of waters for power purposes cannot be acquired by a superior right for irrigation purposes without payment of just compensation. Hickman v. Loup River P. P. Dist., 173 Neb. 428, 113 N.W.2d 617 (1962).