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NE Code § 16-1035 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1035 - Retirement committee; members; terms; vacancy; expenses.

16-1035.  Retirement committee; members; terms; vacancy; expenses.Each retirement committee established pursuant to section 16-1034 shall consist of six members of which four members shall be selected by the active paid firefighters excluding firefighters identified in section 16-1039. Two members shall be designated by the city council. The members who are not participants in such retirement system shall have a general knowledge of retirement plans. Members of the city council, active members of the fire department, and members of the general public may serve on the retirement committee. The committee members shall be appointed to four-year terms. Vacancies shall be filled for the remainder of the term by a person with the same representation as his or her predecessor. Members of the retirement committee shall, subject to approval by the city council, be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in carrying out their duties.Source   Laws 1983, LB 531, § 16;   Laws 1992, LB 672, § 26;  Laws 2016, LB704, § 208.
NE Code § 16-1036 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1036 - Firefighters Retirement System Fund; authorized investments; retirement committee; powers and duties.

16-1036.  Firefighters Retirement System Fund; authorized investments; retirement committee; powers and duties.(1) The funds in the Firefighters Retirement System Fund shall be invested by the retirement committee. The city, subject to the approval of the retirement committee, shall contract with a funding agent or agents to hold or invest the assets of the retirement system and to provide for the benefits provided by sections 16-1020 to 16-1042. The retirement committee, subject to the approval of the city, may also select an investment manager. The city, subject to approval of the retirement committee, may contract with investment managers registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to invest, reinvest, and otherwise manage such portion of the assets of the retirement system as may be assigned by the city or retirement committee.(2) The retirement committee shall establish an investment plan which allows each member of the retirement system to allocate all contributions to his or her employee account and, if he or she commenced his or her employment after January 1, 1984, his or her employer account to the various investment options or combinations of investment options described in such plan. Each firefighter shall have the option of investing his or her employee account and, if he or she commenced his or her employment after January 1, 1984, his or her employer account in any proportion, including full allocation, in any investment option offered by the plan. Upon the direction of the city, firefighters employed on January 1, 1984, may have the option to allocate their employer account to various investment options or combinations of investment options in any proportion, including full allocation, in any investment option offered by the plan. Each firefighter shall be given a summary of the investment plan and a detailed current description of each investment option prior to making or revising his or her allocation.(3) The funds in the Firefighters Retirement System Fund shall be invested pursuant to the policies established by the Nebraska Investment Council.Source   Laws 1983, LB 531, § 17;   Laws 1991, LB 2, § 3;   Laws 1992, LB 672, § 27;   Laws 1993, LB 724, § 12;  Laws 2004, LB 1097, § 1.
NE Code § 16-1036.01 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1036.01 - Firefighters Retirement System Fund; schedule of investment costs; allocation.

16-1036.01.  Firefighters Retirement System Fund; schedule of investment costs; allocation.The city and the retirement committee shall develop a schedule of investment costs relating to the investment of the funds in each of the accounts in the Firefighters Retirement System Fund, which costs shall be paid out of the funds in such accounts or assessed to the firefighters as provided in such schedule. The schedule of investment costs shall provide for the allocation of the administrative or record-keeping costs of the various investment options available to the members of the retirement system and shall assess such costs so that each member pays a fair proportion of the costs based upon his or her choice of options and number of transfers among options. All other costs related to the general operation of the retirement system established pursuant to sections 16-1020 to 16-1038 and not allocated or assessed pursuant to the schedule of investment costs shall be considered administrative costs and shall be paid by the city from the unallocated employer account.Source  Laws 1992, LB 672, § 29.
NE Code § 16-1039 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1039 - Firefighter serving on August 7, 1965; pension benefits.

16-1039.  Firefighter serving on August 7, 1965; pension benefits.(1) All cities of the first class having a paid fire department shall pension all firefighters of the paid fire department who were serving as such on August 7, 1965, and who did not elect coverage under the provisions of sections 35-204 to 35-215 as they existed prior to January 1, 1984, whenever such firefighters shall have first served in such fire department for the period of twenty-one years and shall elect to retire from active service and go upon the retired list.(2) Such pension shall be paid by the city in the same manner as firefighters upon the active list are paid. Such pension shall be at least fifty percent of the amount of salary such retiring firefighter is receiving at the time he or she goes upon such pension list.(3) Any such firefighter who retires on or after age fifty-five with less than twenty-one years of service shall receive a pension of at least fifty percent of the salary he or she was receiving at the time of his or her retirement multiplied by the ratio of the years of service to twenty-one.(4) At the death of any such retired firefighter, the same rate of pension, as is herein provided for, shall be paid to the surviving spouse of such deceased firefighter during such time as the surviving spouse shall remain unmarried and, in case there be no surviving spouse, then the minor children, if any, of such deceased firefighter, shall be paid such pension during their minority to the age of eighteen years, except that as soon as a child of such deceased firefighter shall become eighteen years of age, such pension as to such child shall cease.(5) Firefighters subject to subsection (1) of this section shall be subject to sections 16-1029 to 16-1032 but shall be exempt from sections 16-1024, 16-1025, 16-1027, 16-1028, and 16-1033.Source  Laws 1983, LB 531, § 20.
NE Code § 16-1040 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1040 - Firefighter subject to prior law; contributions; reimbursement.

16-1040.  Firefighter subject to prior law; contributions; reimbursement.After August 7, 1965, every firefighter subject to the provisions of sections 35-201 to 35-203 as they existed prior to January 1, 1984, shall contribute to the city an amount equal to five percent of his or her salary until he or she shall be entitled to retire or otherwise become eligible for a pension. No such firefighter continuing in the employment of the city as a member of such department after becoming eligible to retire shall be required to make any further contribution. Any such firefighter whose employment shall terminate, whether by discharge or otherwise, prior to the time he or she shall become entitled to a pension, and who shall have made contributions from his or her salary as provided in this section shall, upon demand, be reimbursed by the city for the amount of such contributions plus interest at five percent per annum.Source  Laws 1983, LB 531, § 21.
NE Code § 16-1041 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1041 - Benefits under prior law, how construed.

16-1041.  Benefits under prior law, how construed.Nothing in sections 16-1020 to 16-1042 shall in any manner affect the right of any person now receiving or entitled to receive, now or in the future, pension or other benefits provided for in sections 35-201 to 35-216, as they exist immediately prior to January 1, 1984, to receive such pension or other benefits in all respects the same as if such sections remained in full force and effect.Source   Laws 1983, LB 531, § 22;   Laws 1985, LB 6, § 1.
NE Code § 16-1042 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1042 - Termination of employment; transfer of benefits; when.

16-1042.  Termination of employment; transfer of benefits; when.In the event that after four or more years of employment a firefighter terminates his or her employment for the purpose of becoming a firefighter employed by another city of the first class in Nebraska and such new employment commences within ninety days of such termination, such firefighter shall be entitled to transfer to the Firefighters Retirement System Fund of the city by which he or she is newly employed the full amount of his or her contribution and his or her vested portion of the value of his or her employer account at the time of termination. The transferred funds shall be administered by the retirement committee of the city to which transferred. Upon such transfer, the city and the retirement system from which the firefighter transferred shall have no further obligation to such firefighter or his or her beneficiary. Following the commencement of new employment, the transferring firefighter shall be deemed a new employee for all purposes of the retirement system of the city to which he or she transferred.Beginning January 1, 1993, a firefighter who is to receive an eligible rollover distribution, within the meaning of section 401(a)(31) of the Internal Revenue Code, from the retirement system may choose to have such distribution made in the form of a direct transfer to the trustee or custodian of a retirement plan eligible to receive the transfer under the code if the election is made in the form and within the time period required by the retirement committee and the plan to which such transfer is to be made will accept such transfer.Source   Laws 1983, LB 531, § 23;   Laws 1993, LB 724, § 14;   Laws 1995, LB 574, § 25.
NE Code § 16-1101 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1101 - Act, how cited.

16-1101.  Act, how cited.Sections 16-1101 to 16-1115 shall be known and may be cited as the First-Class City Merger Act.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 1.
NE Code § 16-1102 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1102 - Terms, defined.

16-1102.  Terms, defined.For purposes of the First-Class City Merger Act:(1) City means a city of the first class; and(2) Merger means a full and permanent union of two or more cities of the first class, resulting in one city.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 2.
NE Code § 16-1103 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1103 - Merger authorized.

16-1103.  Merger authorized.Any two or more contiguous and adjacent cities of the first class in the state may merge by complying with the requirements and procedures specified in the First-Class City Merger Act. Merger shall not be allowed across county lines.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 3.
NE Code § 16-1104 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1104 - Merger plan; city council; adopt resolution; advisory vote; notice.

16-1104.  Merger plan; city council; adopt resolution; advisory vote; notice.(1) To enter into a merger plan, each city council of any two or more contiguous and adjacent cities shall adopt an initial joint concurrent resolution of intent to pursue such plan.(2) If a resolution is adopted pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the city councils of each city involved may hold an advisory vote at any general, primary, or special election if the advisory vote is presented to voters of all cities involved on the same day. Notice of the advisory vote to be voted on at a special election shall be given in the manner of notice for special elections in accordance with the Election Act. The result of the vote cast on a question submitted under this subsection shall not be binding upon such city councils.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 4. Cross References  Election Act, see section 32-101.
NE Code § 16-1105 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1105 - Merger plan; contents; advisory committee.

16-1105.  Merger plan; contents; advisory committee.(1) After adoption of a resolution pursuant to section 16-1104 by the city councils of any two or more cities, such city councils may propose a merger plan subject to the First-Class City Merger Act.(2) A merger plan shall include, but not be limited to, (a) the names of the cities which propose to merge, (b) the name under which the cities would merge, (c) the manner of financing and allocating all costs associated with the plan, (d) the property, real and personal, belonging to each city and the fair value thereof in current money of the United States, (e) the indebtedness, bonded and otherwise, of each city and the plan for repayment of the indebtedness after merger, (f) how the local ballot initiatives enacted in either city, if any, will be reconciled or terminated after merger, (g) if the cities have different forms of organization and government, the proposed form of organization and government of the merged city, (h) the redistricting of the newly merged city, including the number of wards and elected representatives from each ward, (i) the pay and perquisites of the mayor and city council, (j) the treatment of related city entities such as the housing authority, airport authority, or other city authority, and (k) any other terms of the agreement. A merger plan shall not be considered an interlocal cooperation agreement pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act.(3) Each city council may appoint an advisory committee to assist the council in the preparation of the merger plan.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 5 .Cross References  Interlocal Cooperation Act, see section 13-801.
NE Code § 16-1106 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1106 - Public hearing; notice.

16-1106.  Public hearing; notice.After adoption of a resolution pursuant to section 16-1104 and preparation of the required merger plan pursuant to section 16-1105, the city council of each city proposing to enter into such plan shall hold a public hearing on the plan and shall give notice of the hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city once each week for three consecutive weeks prior to the hearing. Final publication shall be within seven calendar days prior to the hearing. The notice shall describe the contents of the plan and specify that a copy of the plan may be obtained at no charge at the city clerk's office.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 6.
NE Code § 16-1107 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1107 - Adoption of joint merger plan.

16-1107.  Adoption of joint merger plan.After a public hearing held pursuant to section 16-1106, the city council of each city shall adopt the joint merger plan by a majority vote of the council.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 7.
NE Code § 16-1108 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1108 - Submission of joint merger plan to voters.

16-1108.  Submission of joint merger plan to voters.If a merger plan is adopted pursuant to section 16-1107, the city council of each city adopting such plan shall submit the plan for approval by the registered voters at a primary or special election held on the same day in each of the cities which are parties to the plan, not less than one hundred eighty days prior to the next statewide general election. An election held pursuant to this section shall be conducted in accordance with the Election Act.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 8. Cross References  Election Act, see section 32-101.
NE Code § 16-1109 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1109 - Submission of plan to voters; notice; publication; contents.

16-1109.  Submission of plan to voters; notice; publication; contents.When a merger plan is submitted to the voters for approval pursuant to section 16-1108, the city council of each city adopting the plan shall publish a notice at least once each week for three consecutive weeks prior to the election in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the city. Final publication in each city shall be within seven calendar days prior to the election pursuant to section 16-1110. The notice shall describe the contents of the plan and specify that a copy of the plan may be obtained at no charge at the city clerk's office.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 9.
NE Code § 16-1110 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1110 - Question submitted to voters; form; effective date of plan.

16-1110.  Question submitted to voters; form; effective date of plan.(1) After publication pursuant to section 16-1109, each city council shall submit the question as proposed in the merger plan to the registered voters of the city as provided in section 16-1108.(2) The question shall be submitted to the voters in substantially the following form:"Shall (name of city in which ballot will be voted) merge with (name of other city or cities) according to the merger plan previously adopted by the city councils in such cities? Yes No".(3) The election shall be conducted in accordance with the Election Act. The election commissioner or county clerk shall certify the results to each city council involved in the plan.(4) If a majority of the voters of each city voting on the question vote in favor of the merger plan, the plan shall become effective at the first regular meeting of the city council in December following the election, and the terms of the incumbents in the offices involved in the plan shall be deemed to end on that day.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 10. Cross References  Election Act, see section 32-101.
NE Code § 16-1111 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1111 - Nominations for merged city offices; special election.

16-1111.  Nominations for merged city offices; special election.Candidates for merged city offices shall be nominated at a special election to be held no less than thirty days after the election at which the merger is approved by the voters and no less than sixty days prior to the next statewide general election. The election shall be held in accordance with the Election Act.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 11. Cross References  Election Act, see section 32-101.
NE Code § 16-1112 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1112 - Election of merged city officers; terms; appointive city officers; terms.

16-1112.  Election of merged city officers; terms; appointive city officers; terms.(1) At the next statewide general election held after the election at which the merger is approved by the voters, the merged city officers shall be elected. Their terms shall begin at the first regular meeting of the city council in December following their election, and the terms of the incumbents in the offices involved in the plan shall be deemed to end on that day. The initial term of a merged officer shall be set forth in the merger plan.(2) All appointive city officers shall be appointed by the person, council, or authority upon whom the power is conferred to appoint such officers in other cities of the first class. The terms of such officers shall begin at the first regular meeting of the city council in December following the first election of officers for the merged city and shall continue, unless otherwise removed, until their successors have been appointed and qualified.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 12.
NE Code § 16-1113 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1113 - Merged cities; name; rights, privileges, franchises, property, and suits; how treated.

16-1113.  Merged cities; name; rights, privileges, franchises, property, and suits; how treated.(1) Upon the effective date of a merger plan, the cities involved in the plan shall be treated under the name and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the plan. Except as provided in subsections (6) and (7) of this section, statutory references to the names of the cities as they existed prior to the merger plan shall be deemed to reference the name of the merged city as set forth in the plan.(2) All rights, privileges, and franchises of each of the several cities, all real and personal property, all rights-of-way, all other interests, and all debts due on whatever account, as well as other things in action, belonging to each of such cities, shall be deemed as transferred to and vested in the merged city without further act or deed. All records, books, and documents shall be transferred to and vested in the merged city. All money on hand and accounts receivable shall be distributed pursuant to the merger plan.(3) The title to real property, either by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this state vested in any of the cities, shall not be deemed to revert or be in any way impaired by reason of merger, but the rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of any of the cities shall be preserved unimpaired.(4) Suits may be brought and maintained against such merged city in any of the courts of this state in the same manner as against any other city of the first class. Pursuant to the merger plan, any action or proceeding pending by or against any of the cities may be prosecuted to judgment and the merged city may be substituted in its place.(5) The boundaries for school districts and election districts for offices other than the merged offices shall continue as prior to merger unless and until changed in accordance with law.(6) For purposes of political representation, the existing boundaries for such districts shall continue until changed in accordance with law.(7) Such merged city shall in all respects, except as provided in the First-Class City Merger Act, be subject to all the obligations and liabilities imposed and shall possess all the rights, powers, and privileges vested by law in other cities of the first class.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 13.
NE Code § 16-1114 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1114 - Merger; deemed permanent.

16-1114.  Merger; deemed permanent.Merger according to the First-Class City Merger Act is deemed permanent, and no withdrawal or dissolution shall be permitted.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 14.
NE Code § 16-1115 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 16 - Cities of the First Class|16-1115 - Joint sessions of city councils; authorized.

16-1115.  Joint sessions of city councils; authorized.The city councils of two or more cities of the first class may meet and hold joint sessions for purposes of the First-Class City Merger Act.Source Laws 2008, LB1056, § 15.