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(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) (1) 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.
(2) 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’s minutes.
(Prior Code, § 1-609) (Ord. 97-9, passed 9-8-1997)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-613, 19-3701
No ordinance or section thereof shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance contains the entire ordinance or section as revised or amended and the ordinance or section so amended is repealed; except that, an ordinance revising all the ordinances of the municipality and modifications to zoning or building districts may be adopted as otherwise provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 1-610) (Ord. 97-10, passed 9-8-1997)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-614
MEETINGS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MEETING. All regular, special or called meetings, formal or informal, of a public body for the purposes of briefing, discussion of public business, formation of tentative policy or the taking of any action.
(Prior Code, § 1-501)
PUBLIC BODY.
(1) (a) The City Council;
(b) All independent boards, commissions, bureaus, committees, councils, subunits or any other bodies created by the Constitution of the state, statute, ordinance or otherwise pursuant to law; and
(c) Advisory committees of the bodies listed above.
(2) PUBLIC BODY does not include subcommittees of such bodies unless a quorum of the public body attends a subcommittee meeting or unless the subcommittees are holding hearings, making policy or taking formal action on behalf of their parent body.
(Neb. RS 84-1409) (Prior Code, § 1-502)
(A) The formation of public policy is public business and may not be conducted in secret. Every meeting of a public body shall be open to the public in order that citizens may exercise their democratic privilege of attending and speaking at meetings of public bodies, except as otherwise provided by the Constitution of the state, federal statutes and the Open Meetings Act.
(Neb. RS 84-1408)
(B) Each public body shall give reasonable advance publicized notice of the time and place of each meeting by a method designated by the public body and recorded in its minutes. The notice shall be transmitted to all members of the public body and to the public. The notice shall contain an agenda of subjects known at the time of the publicized notice or a statement that the agenda, which shall be kept continually current, is readily available for public inspection at the office of the public body during normal business hours. Agenda items shall be sufficiently descriptive to give the public reasonable notice of the matters to be considered at the meeting. Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be altered later than 24 hours before the scheduled commencement of the meeting or 48 hours before the scheduled commencement of a meeting of the City Council scheduled outside the corporate limits of the city. The public body shall have the right to modify the agenda to include items of an emergency nature only at such public meeting.
(Neb. RS 84-1411) (Prior Code, § 1-509)
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