Opinion ID: 2684238
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Heading: Nebraska Statutes

Text: Nebraska statutes place the responsibility of regulating traffic traveling on Nebraska highways squarely on state and local government actors. See, e.g., Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-680(1)(b) (“Any local authority with respect to highways under its jurisdiction . . . may . . . [r]egulate traffic by means of peace officers or traffic control devices.); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 39-1337 (“The construction, maintenance, protection, and control of the state highway system shall be under the authority and responsibility of the [D]epartment [of Roads].”); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 39-1402 (“General supervision and -6- control of the public roads of each county is vested in the county board.”); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,121 (“Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions shall place and maintain such traffic control devices upon highways under their jurisdictions . . . to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.”); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,127(1) (“No person shall place . . . in view of any highway any unauthorized sign . . . which implies the need or requirement of stopping or the existence of danger, which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, [or] which otherwise copies or resembles any lawful traffic control device.”); Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-6,127(4) (“Every such prohibited sign . . . is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.”). As the district court reasonably concluded, “these statutes indicate that the government bears the responsibility for controlling traffic at the Intersection, not Snethen and [the Jaycees].” Similarly, as to Carico Farms, “the duty to control traffic on the Nebraska public roadways rests with the government.”