A City Attorney shall be appointed to serve as the city’s legal advisor. The City Attorney shall perform the duties and have the powers as are provided for that office by ordinance or by the laws of the state, including, but not limited to, Neb. RS 17-610, as amended or superseded. When requested by the City Council, he or she shall attend meetings of the City Council and shall advise any city official in all matters of law in which the interests of the city may be involved. He or she shall draft the ordinances, bonds, contracts and other writings as may be required in the administration of the affairs of the city. He or she shall examine all bonds, contracts and documents on which the City Council will be required to act and attach thereto a brief statement in writing to all instruments and documents as to whether or not, the document is in legal and proper form. He or she shall commence, prosecute and defend all actions on behalf of the city or that may be ordered by the City Council. Without direction, he or she shall appear and prosecute all cases for violation of the city ordinances that have been appealed to and are pending in any higher court. He or she shall also examine, when requested to do so by the City Council, the ordinance records and advise and assist the City Clerk as much as may be necessary to the end that each procedural step will be taken in the passage of each ordinance to ensure that it will be valid and subsisting local laws in so far as their passage and approval are concerned. The City Council shall have the right to compensate the City Attorney for legal services on such terms as the City Council and the City Attorney may agree and to employ any additional legal assistance as may be necessary out of the funds of the city.
(Prior Code, § 1-204)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-610