Official bonds of the municipality shall be in form, joint and several, and shall be made payable to the municipality in such penalty as the governing body may set by resolution; provided, the penalty amount on any bond shall not fall below the legal minimum, when one has been set by the State of Nebraska, for each particular official. All official bonds of the municipal officials shall be executed by the principal named in such bonds and by at least two sufficient sureties who shall be freeholders of the county, or by the official as principal and by a guaranty, surety, fidelity or bonding company; provided no municipal official, while still in his or her official term of office, shall be accepted as surety on any other official’s bond, contractor’s bond, license bond or appeal bond under any circumstances. Only companies that are legally authorized to transact business in the State of Nebraska shall be eligible for suretyship on the bond of an official of the municipality. All said bonds shall obligate the principal, and sureties for the faithful discharge of all duties required by law of such principal, and shall inure to the benefit of the municipality and any persons who may be injured by a breach of the conditions of such bonds. No bond shall be deemed to be given or complete until the approval of the governing body, and all sureties are endorsed in writing on the said instrument by the Mayor and Municipal Clerk-Treasurer pursuant to the said approval of the governing body. The premium on any official bond required to be given may be paid out of the General Fund, or other proper municipal fund, upon a resolution to that effect by the governing body at the beginning of any municipal year. All official bonds, meeting the conditions herein, shall be filed with the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer for his or her official records, and it shall be the duty of the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer to furnish a certified copy of any bond so filed upon the payment of a fee which shall be set by resolution of the governing body. In the event that the sureties on the official bond of any officer of the municipality, in the opinion of the governing body, become insufficient, the governing body may, by resolution, fix a reasonable time within which the said officer may give a new bond or additional sureties as directed. In the event that the officer should fail, refuse or neglect to give a new bond, or additional sureties to the satisfaction, and approval of the governing body then the office shall, by such failure, refusal or neglect, become vacant, and it shall be the duty of the governing body to appoint a competent and qualified person to fill the said office. Any official who is re-elected to office shall be required to file a new bond after each election.
(1997 Code, § 1-301)
Statutory reference:
Authority or similar provisions, see Neb. RS 11-103 through 11-118, 17-604