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§ 31.34 TITLE.
   No ordinance shall contain a subject which is not clearly expressed in the title.
(1997 Code, § 1-605)
Statutory reference:
   Authority or similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-614
§ 31.35 ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, ORDERS, BYLAWS; READING; PASSAGE.
   Ordinances of a general or permanent nature shall be read by title on three different days unless three-fourths of the governing body vote to suspend this requirement, except that such requirement shall not be suspended for any ordinance for the annexation of territory. In case such requirement is suspended, the ordinance shall be read by title and then moved for final passage. Three-fourths of the governing body may require a reading of any ordinance in full before enactment under either procedure set out in this section. All ordinances and resolutions or orders for the appropriation or payment of money shall require for their passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of all members elected to the governing body. On the passage or adoption of every bylaw or ordinance, and every resolution or order to enter into a contract by the governing body, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded. To pass or adopt any bylaw, ordinance or any such resolution or order, a concurrence of a majority of the whole number of members elected to the governing body shall be required. All appointments of the officers by the governing body shall be made viva voce; and the concurrence of a like majority shall be required, and the names of those, and for whom they voted, on the vote resulting in an appointment, shall be recorded. The requirements of a roll call or viva voce vote shall be satisfied by a municipality which utilizes an electronic voting device which allows the yeas and nays of each member of the governing body to be readily seen by the public.
(1997 Code, § 1-606)
Statutory reference:
   Authority or similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-614, 17-616
§ 31.36 PUBLICATION OR POSTING.
   All ordinances of a general nature shall, before they take effect, be published one time, within 15 days after they are passed:
   (A)   In some newspaper published in the municipality or, if no paper is published in the municipality, then by posting a written or printed copy in each of three public places in the municipality; or
   (B)   In book or pamphlet form.
(1997 Code, § 1-607)
Statutory reference:
   Authority or similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613
§ 31.37 CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION OR POSTING.
   The passage, approval and publication or posting of an ordinance shall be sufficiently proved by a certificate under the seal of the municipality from the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer showing that the ordinance was passed and approved, and when and in what paper the ordinance was published, or when and by whom and where the ordinance was posted.
(1997 Code, § 1-608)
Statutory reference:
   Authority or similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613, 17-615
§ 31.38 EFFECTIVE DATE; EMERGENCY ORDINANCES.
   (A)   Except as provided in division (B) below, an ordinance for the government of the municipality which has been adopted by the governing body without submission to the voters of the municipality shall not go into effect until 15 days after the passage of the ordinance.
   (B)   In the case of riot, infectious or contagious diseases, or other impending danger, failure of a public utility or any other emergency requiring its immediate operation, an ordinance shall take effect upon the proclamation of the Mayor and the posting thereof in at least three of the most public places in the municipality. Such emergency ordinance shall recite the emergency, be passed by a three-fourths vote of the governing body, and be entered of record on the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer’s minutes.
(1997 Code, § 1-609)
Statutory reference:
   Authority or similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613, 19-3701
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