(A) Election; term.
(1) The Mayor shall be elected as provided in the Election Act. The Mayor shall take office on the date of the first regular meeting of the City Council held in December following the statewide general election. The Mayor shall be a resident and registered voter of the city.
(Neb. RS 17-107)
(2) The Mayor shall serve for a term of 4 years or until his or her successor is elected and qualified.
(Neb. RS 32-533)
(B) Powers; duties.
(1) The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the City Council. The Mayor may vote when his or her vote would provide the additional vote required to attain the number of votes equal to a majority of the number of members elected to the City Council on any pending matter, legislation, or transaction, and the mayor shall, for the purpose of such vote, be deemed to be a member of the Council. He or she shall have superintendence and control of all the officers and affairs of the city, and shall take care that the ordinances of the city and all laws governing cities of the second class are complied with.
(2) The Mayor shall have the power to veto or sign any ordinance passed by the City Council and to approve or veto any order, bylaw, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim. If the Mayor approves the ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, contract, or claim, he or she shall sign it, and it shall become effective. If the Mayor vetoes the ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, contract, or any item or items of appropriations or claims, he or she shall return it to the City Council stating that the measure is vetoed. The Mayor may issue the veto at the meeting at which measure passed or within seven calendar days after the meeting. If the Mayor issues the veto after the meeting, the Mayor shall notify the City Clerk of the veto in writing. The Clerk shall notify the City Council in writing of the Mayor's veto. Any order, bylaw, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim vetoed by the Mayor may be passed over his or her veto by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Council. If the Mayor neglects or refuses to sign any ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim, but fails to veto the measure within the time required by this section, the measure shall become effective without his or her signature. The Mayor may veto any item or items of any appropriation bill or any claims bill, and approve the remainder thereof, and the item or items vetoed may be passed by the Council over the veto as in other cases.
(3) The Mayor shall, from time to time, communicate to the City Council such information and recommend such measures as, in his or here opinion, may tend to the improvement of the finances, the police, health, security, ornament, comfort, and general prosperity of the city.
(4) The Mayor shall have the power, when he or she deems it necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his or her accounts or other papers, and to make reports to the Council, in writing, touching any subject or matter pertaining to his or her office.
(5) The Mayor shall have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him or her by ordinance, over all places within five miles of the corporate limits of the city, for the enforcement of any health or quarantine ordinance and regulation thereof, and shall have jurisdiction in all matters vested in him or her by ordinance, excepting taxation, within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the city.
(6) The Mayor shall have the power to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for all offenses arising under the ordinances of the city.
(7) The Mayor shall hold no other elective or appointive office or employment with the city.
(8) The Mayor shall sign the City Clerk's minutes of all meetings of the City Council, and he or she shall sign all resolutions that have been passed and warrants for the payment of money when ordered by the Council.
(9) The Mayor shall have such other duties as are reposed in the Mayor by the laws of the State of Nebraska or as the Council may by resolution confer upon the Mayor.
(C) Vacancy.
(1) The office of Mayor shall be vacant upon the happening of any of the events specified in Neb. RS 32-560 except as provided in Neb. RS 32-561.
(2) (a) In case of any vacancy in the office of Mayor, or in case of his or her disability or absence, the President of the City Council shall exercise the office of Mayor for the unexpired term, until such disability is removed, or in case of temporary absence, until the Mayor returns.
(Neb. RS 32-568)
(b) If the President of the Council assumes the office of Mayor for the unexpired term, there shall be a vacancy on the Council.
(Neb. RS 17-107, 32-568)
(Ord. 994, passed 3-11-2014; Ord. 1008, passed 2-10-2015; Ord. 1057, passed 4-10-2018)
Statutory reference:
Mayor powers; duties, see Neb. RS 17-110 through 17-114
Restrictions on holding other office or employment, see Neb. RS 17-108.02, 32-109, 32-603, and 32-604