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NE Code § 16-222.02 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-222.02 - Employment of full-time fire chief; appointment; duties.

16-222.02.  Employment of full-time fire chief; appointment; duties.Each city of the first class with a population in excess of forty-one thousand inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census shall employ a full-time fire chief with appropriate training, credentials, and experience and for whom firefighting or emergency medical first response is a full-time career. The fire chief shall be appointed under the Civil Service Act by the mayor with the approval of the city council or by the city manager in cities that have adopted the city manager plan of government. The fire chief shall have the immediate superintendence of the fire prevention, fire suppression, and emergency medical first response services and the facilities and equipment related to such services of the city. The fire chief shall promulgate, implement, and enforce rules governing the actions and conduct of volunteer members of the department so as to be in conformity with the personnel policies of the city.Source  Laws 2008, LB1096, § 2;  Laws 2015, LB455, § 1;  Laws 2016, LB857, § 1;  Laws 2017, LB113, § 10.  Cross References  Civil Service Act, see section 19-1825.
NE Code § 16-222.03 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-222.03 - Fire chief; annual report; contents; report to city council.

16-222.03.  Fire chief; annual report; contents; report to city council.(1) In addition to such other duties as may be performed by the fire chief employed pursuant to section 16-222.02, he or she shall keep and maintain full and complete records regarding the twelve-month period ending thirty days prior to the annual report of the chief to the city council as provided for in subsection (2) of this section. Such records include, but are not limited to, the number of volunteers in active volunteer service providing emergency response services to the city including their ages, the amount and type of training received by each volunteer during the course of his or her time of service as an active volunteer, the number of new volunteers recruited during such period, the number of volunteers who ceased to be active volunteers during that period, the basic information regarding each volunteer specified in section 35-1309.01, the number and nature of calls or requests for emergency services, the response time for each call, to be calculated from the time of receipt of the dispatch to the time of arrival of the first fire or rescue emergency response vehicle at the site of the request, the number of volunteers responding to each call, and the time each call was received. The city council may specify any additional information to be gathered or collected by the fire chief or as the fire chief may recommend.(2) The fire chief shall collate and analyze the information gathered pursuant to subsection (1) of this section and shall, no less than once in any twelve-month period, on a date specified by the city council, provide a report to the city council at a regular council meeting on the prior year's experience regarding the volunteer department and shall make such recommendations as he or she deems appropriate.Source Laws 2008, LB1096, § 3.
NE Code § 16-224 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-224 - Fuel and feed; inspection and sale; regulation.

16-224.  Fuel and feed; inspection and sale; regulation.A city of the first class by ordinance may provide for the inspection of electric light, water and gas meters, the inspection and weighing of hay, grain and coal, and the measuring of wood and fuel to be used in the city, and determine the place or places of the same. It may regulate and prescribe the place or places of exposing for sale of hay, coal and wood, provide for the appointment of an inspector, and fix the fees and duties of the inspector and of other persons authorized to perform such duties.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXI, p. 254;   Laws 1905, c. 25, § 2, p. 250;   R.S.1913, § 4840;   C.S.1922, § 4008;   C.S.1929, § 16-225;   R.S.1943, § 16-224.
NE Code § 16-225 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-225 - Police; regulation; penalties; power to prescribe.

16-225.  Police; regulation; penalties; power to prescribe.A city of the first class may regulate its police force, establish and support a night watch, impose fines, forfeitures, confinement, and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and for recovery and collection of such fines, forfeitures, and penalties. In default of payment, it may provide for confinement in the city or county jail or other place of confinement as may be provided by ordinance or as provided under section 16-252.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXII, p. 254;   R.S.1913, § 4841;   C.S.1922, § 4009;   C.S.1929, § 16-226;   R.S.1943, § 16-225;   Laws 1965, c. 47, § 1, p. 247;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 29.
NE Code § 16-226 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-226 - Billiard halls; bowling alleys; disorderly houses; gambling; regulation.

16-226.  Billiard halls; bowling alleys; disorderly houses; gambling; regulation.A city of the first class by ordinance may regulate, prohibit, and suppress unlicensed billiard tables and bowling alleys, may restrain houses of prostitution, opium joints, dens, and other disorderly houses and practices, games, and gambling houses, may regulate all public amusements, shows, or exhibitions, and may prohibit all lotteries, all fraudulent devices and practices for the purpose of obtaining money or property, all shooting galleries except as provided in the Nebraska Shooting Range Protection Act, and all kinds of public indecencies, except that nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to bingo, lotteries, lotteries by the sale of pickle cards, or raffles conducted in accordance with the Nebraska Bingo Act, the Nebraska Lottery and Raffle Act, the Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act, the Nebraska Small Lottery and Raffle Act, or the State Lottery Act.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXIII, p. 254;   R.S.1913, § 4842;   C.S.1922, § 4010;   C.S.1929, § 16-227;   R.S.1943, § 16-226;   Laws 1986, LB 1027, § 188;   Laws 1991, LB 849, § 61;   Laws 1993, LB 138, § 63;  Laws 2009, LB503, § 13;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 30.  Cross References   Nebraska Bingo Act, see section 9-201.  Nebraska Lottery and Raffle Act, see section 9-401.  Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act, see section 9-301.  Nebraska Shooting Range Protection Act, see section 37-1301.  Nebraska Small Lottery and Raffle Act, see section 9-501.  State Lottery Act, see section 9-801. Annotations Under the terms of a prior act, the Legislature authorized cities to prohibit, or to license, the keeping of billiard and pool tables for hire, and to provide a fine for the violation thereof. In re Langston, 55 Neb. 310, 75 N.W. 828 (1898).
NE Code § 16-227 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-227 - Riots; disorderly conduct; use of explosives; weapons; vagabonds; lights; bonfires; regulation.

16-227.  Riots; disorderly conduct; use of explosives; weapons; vagabonds; lights; bonfires; regulation.A city of the first class may (1) prevent and restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances, breach of the peace, or disorderly assemblies in any street, house, or place in the city, (2) regulate, punish, and prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks, or any other dangerous combustible material in the streets, lots, grounds, and alleys or about or in the vicinity of any buildings, (3) regulate, prevent, and punish the carrying of concealed weapons, except the carrying of a concealed handgun in compliance with the Concealed Handgun Permit Act, (4) arrest, regulate, punish, or fine vagabonds, (5) regulate and prevent the transportation or storage of gunpowder or other explosive or combustible articles, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, petroleum or any other productions thereof, and other materials of like nature, the use of lights in stables, shops, or other places, and the building of bonfires, and (6) regulate and prohibit the piling of building material or any excavation or obstruction in the street.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXIV, p. 255;   R.S.1913, § 4843;   C.S.1922, § 4011;   C.S.1929, § 16-228;   R.S.1943, § 16-227;  Laws 2009, LB430, § 3;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 31.  Cross References  Concealed Handgun Permit Act, see section 69-2427.Annotations City's delegated power hereunder to control storage of petroleum products must be exercised by ordinance. State ex rel. Andruss v. Mayor & Council of City of North Platte, 120 Neb. 413, 233 N.W. 4 (1930).
NE Code § 16-228 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-228 - Disturbing the peace; punishment.

16-228.  Disturbing the peace; punishment.A city of the first class by ordinance may provide for the punishment of persons disturbing the peace and good order of the city by clamor and noise, by intoxication, drunkenness, fighting, or using obscene or profane language in the streets or other public places, or otherwise violating the public peace by indecent and disorderly conduct, or by lewd or lascivious behavior.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXV, p. 255;   R.S.1913, § 4844;   C.S.1922, § 4012;   C.S.1929, § 16-229;   R.S.1943, § 16-228. Annotations Urinating in public constituted disorderly conduct under ordinance validly enacted pursuant to this section. State v. Cherry, 185 Neb. 103, 173 N.W.2d 887 (1970).
NE Code § 16-229 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-229 - Vagrants; pickpockets; other offenders; punishment.

16-229.  Vagrants; pickpockets; other offenders; punishment.A city of the first class by ordinance may provide for the punishment of vagrants, tramps or street beggars, prostitutes, disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers, burglars, thieves, and persons who practice any game, trick, or device with intent to swindle.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXVI, p. 255;   R.S.1913, § 4845;   C.S.1922, § 4013;   C.S.1929, § 16-230;   R.S.1943, § 16-229;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 32.
NE Code § 16-231 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-231 - Health; nuisances; regulation.

16-231.  Health; nuisances; regulation.A city of the first class may prevent any person from bringing, depositing, having, or leaving upon or near his or her premises or elsewhere in the city or within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the city any carcass or putrid beef, pork, fish, hides, or skins of any kind or any unwholesome substance and may compel the removal of the same.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXVIII, p. 256;   Laws 1907, c. 13, § 1, p. 111;   R.S.1913, § 4847;   C.S.1922, § 4015;   C.S.1929, § 16-232;   R.S.1943, § 16-231;   Laws 1988, LB 934, § 3;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 34.  Annotations City had power to contract for removal of refuse, filth, and garbage from public and private premises, within its limits, and to pay therefor from the miscellaneous fund appropriated for such purposes, though it was impossible to estimate the exact amount required at time the appropriation was made. Kelly v. Broadwell, 3 Neb. Unof. 617, 92 N.W. 643 (1902).
NE Code § 16-232 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-232 - Excavations; regulation.

16-232.  Excavations; regulation.A city of the first class by ordinance may prevent the digging of holes, pits, or excavations within the city, except for the purpose of building where such excavations are made, prevent the leaving of any holes, pits, or excavations within such city in an exposed condition, and require the filling of same.Source   Laws 1907, c. 13, § 1, p. 111;   R.S.1913, § 4848;   C.S.1922, § 4016;   C.S.1929, § 16-233;   R.S.1943, § 16-232;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 35.
NE Code § 16-233 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-233 - Public buildings; safety regulations; licensing; violations; penalty.

16-233.  Public buildings; safety regulations; licensing; violations; penalty.A city of the first class may regulate, license, or suppress halls, opera houses, places of amusement, entertainment, or instruction, or other buildings except churches and schools used for the assembly of citizens, and cause them to be provided with sufficient and ample means of exit and entrance, and to be supplied with necessary and appropriate appliances for the extinguishment of fire and for escape from such places in case of fire, and prevent overcrowding and regulate the placing and use of seats, chairs, benches, scenery, curtains, blinds, screens, or other appliances therein. A city of the first class may provide that for any violation of any such regulation a penalty of two hundred dollars shall be imposed, and upon conviction of any such licensees of any violation of any ordinance regulating such places, the license of any such place shall be revoked by the mayor and city council. Whenever the mayor and city council shall by resolution declare any such place to be unsafe, the license thereof shall be deemed revoked by adoption of such resolution. The city council may provide that in any case where it has so revoked a license, any owner, proprietor, manager, lessee or person opening, using, or permitting such place to be opened or used for any purpose involving the assemblage of more than twelve persons shall upon conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXIX, p. 256;   R.S.1913, § 4849;   C.S.1922, § 4017;   C.S.1929, § 16-234;   R.S.1943, § 16-233;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 36.
NE Code § 16-234 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-234 - Building; construction; safety regulations.

16-234.  Building; construction; safety regulations.A city of the first class by ordinance may prescribe the thickness, strength, and manner of constructing stone, brick, and other buildings, and the number and construction of means of exit and entrance, and of fire escapes. It may require the keeper or proprietor of any hotel, boarding house or dormitory to provide and maintain such kind and such number of ladders, ropes, balconies, stairways, and other appliances as by ordinance may be prescribed to facilitate the escape of persons from any such building in case of fire.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XL, p. 256;   R.S.1913, § 4850;   C.S.1922, § 4018;   C.S.1929, § 16-235;   R.S.1943, § 16-234.
NE Code § 16-235 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-235 - Animals and fowl; running at large; regulation.

16-235.  Animals and fowl; running at large; regulation.A city of the first class may regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, hogs, horses, mules, sheep, goats, dogs and other animals, chickens, ducks, geese and other fowls, and cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold to discharge the costs and penalties provided for the violation of such prohibitions, and the fees and expenses of impounding and keeping the same, and of such sale.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XLI, p. 257;   Laws 1907, c. 13, § 1, p. 111;   R.S.1913, § 4851;   C.S.1922, § 4019;   C.S.1929, § 16-236;   R.S.1943, § 16-235.
NE Code § 16-236 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-236 - Pounds; erection; keepers.

16-236.  Pounds; erection; keepers.A city of the first class may provide for the erection of all necessary pens, pounds, and buildings for the use of the city, within the city limits or within its extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction, appoint and compensate keepers thereof, and establish and enforce rules governing the same.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XLII, p. 257;   R.S.1913, § 4852;   C.S.1922, § 4020;   C.S.1929, § 16-237;   R.S.1943, § 16-236;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 37.
NE Code § 16-237 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-237 - Property; sale at auction; regulation.

16-237.  Property; sale at auction; regulation.A city of the first class by ordinance may regulate, license, or prohibit the sale of domestic animals or of goods, wares, and merchandise at public auction on the streets, alleys, highways, or any public grounds within the city; and regulate or license the auctioneering of goods, wares, domestic animals, and merchandise. If the applicant is an individual, an application for a license shall include the applicant's social security number.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XLIII, p. 257;   R.S.1913, § 4853;   C.S.1922, § 4021;   C.S.1929, § 16-238;   R.S.1943, § 16-237;   Laws 1997, LB 752, § 75. Annotations The right to enact ordinances regulating auction sales within the corporate limits is conferred by this section, but ordinance enacted cannot place arbitrary and unreasonable restrictions on the conduct of lawful business. Webber v. City of Scottsbluff, 141 Neb. 363, 3 N.W.2d 635 (1942).
NE Code § 16-238 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-238 - Spread of disease; regulation; board of health; creation; powers; duties.

16-238.  Spread of disease; regulation; board of health; creation; powers; duties.A city of the first class may make regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious, infectious, or malignant diseases into the city. In cities with a commission plan of government as provided in the Municipal Commission Plan of Government Act and cities with a city manager plan of government as provided in the City Manager Plan of Government Act, a board of health shall be created consisting of five members: The mayor, who shall be chairperson, a physician, who shall be medical adviser, the chief of police, who shall be secretary and quarantine officer, and two other members. In all other cities, a board of health shall be created consisting of five members: The mayor, who shall be chairperson, a physician, who shall be medical adviser, the chief of police, who shall be secretary and quarantine officer, the president of the city council, and one other member. A majority of such board shall constitute a quorum and shall enact rules and regulations, having the force and effect of law, to safeguard the health of the people of such city and prevent nuisances and unsanitary conditions, enforce the same, and provide fines and punishments for the violation of such rules and regulations.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XLIV, p. 257;   R.S.1913, § 4854;   Laws 1919, c. 37, § 1, p. 118;   C.S.1922, § 4022;   C.S.1929, § 16-239;   R.S.1943, § 16-238;   Laws 1977, LB 190, § 1;   Laws 1993, LB 119, § 1;   Laws 1994, LB 1019, § 1;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 38;  Laws 2019, LB193, § 2.  Cross References   City Manager Plan of Government Act, see section 19-601.  Municipal Commission Plan of Government Act, see section 19-401.
NE Code § 16-239 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-239 - Hospitals; jails; other institutions; erection; regulation.

16-239.  Hospitals; jails; other institutions; erection; regulation.A city of the first class may erect, establish, and regulate hospitals, multiunit housing, houses of correction, jails, station houses, and other necessary buildings and provide for the support and government of such buildings and facilities.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XLV, p. 257;   R.S.1913, § 4855;   C.S.1922, § 4023;   C.S.1929, § 16-240;   R.S.1943, § 16-239;   Laws 1992, LB 1240, § 13;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 39.
NE Code § 16-240 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-240 - Health; sanitary regulations.

16-240.  Health; sanitary regulations.A city of the first class by ordinance may make regulations to secure the general health of the city, prescribe rules for the prevention, abatement, and removal of nuisances, make and prescribe regulations for the construction, location, and keeping in order of all slaughterhouses, stockyards, warehouses, sheds, stables, barns, dairies, or other places where offensive matter is kept, or is likely to accumulate, within the city or within its extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction, and to limit or fix the maximum number of swine or neat cattle that may be kept in sheds, stables, barns, feedlots, or other enclosures.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XLVI, p. 257;   Laws 1907, c. 13, § 1, p. 111;   R.S.1913, § 4856;   Laws 1919, c. 37, § 1, p. 119;   C.S.1922, § 4024;   C.S.1929, § 16-241;   R.S.1943, § 16-240;  Laws 2015, LB266, § 7;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 40.  Annotations  Ordinance prohibiting keeping classes of livestock within three hundred feet of a residence is constitutional and valid under this section. Beaty v. Baker, 183 Neb. 349, 160 N.W.2d 199 (1968). City, by ordinance, is authorized to make it unlawful to maintain stockyards within certain limits of city, and such act is not an arbitrary and unreasonable interference with owner's property, though such yards are properly maintained and are not a nuisance. Union Pacific R. R. Co. v. State of Nebraska, 88 Neb. 247, 129 N.W. 290 (1911). Cities have the power to contract for the removal of refuse, filth, and garbage from public and private premises, within their limits. Kelly v. Broadwell, 3 Neb. Unof. 617, 92 N.W. 643 (1902).
NE Code § 16-241 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-241 - Cemeteries; hospital grounds; waterworks; acquisition; control.

16-241.  Cemeteries; hospital grounds; waterworks; acquisition; control.A city of the first class may purchase, hold, and pay for, as provided in sections 16-241 to 16-245, lands for the purpose of the burial of the dead, and all necessary grounds for hospital grounds and waterworks, and have and exercise police jurisdiction over such lands, grounds, and waterworks, and over any cemetery lying near such city and used by the inhabitants thereof.Source   Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XLVII, p. 258;   R.S.1913, § 4857;   C.S.1922, § 4025;   C.S.1929, § 16-242;   R.S.1943, § 16-241;   Laws 1973, LB 276, § 1;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 41.  Cross References  For additional provisions relating to cemeteries, see Chapter 12.