(A) The Mayor and members of the Council shall hold no other elective or appointive office or employment with the city.
(B) For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ELECTIVE OFFICE. Any office which has candidates nominated or elected at the time of a statewide primary election, any office which has candidates nominated at the time of a statewide primary election and elected at the time of a statewide general election, any office which has candidates elected at the time of a statewide general election, any office which has candidates nominated or elected at a city or village election and any office created by an act of the legislature which has candidates elected at an election and includes an office which is filled at an election held in conjunction with the annual meeting of a public body created by an act of the legislature.
HIGH ELECTIVE OFFICE. A member of the legislature, an elective office described in Article IV, §§ 1 or 20, or Article VII, §§ 3 or 10, of the Constitution of the state, or a county, city or school district elective office.
(C) No candidate for member of the legislature or an elective office described in Article IV, §§ 1 or 20, or Article VII, §§ 3 or 10, of the Constitution of the state shall be eligible to file as a candidate, to petition on the ballot as a candidate, to accept a nomination by a political party or by party convention, caucus or committee to fill a vacancy, or to be a declared write-in candidate for more than one elective office to be filled at the same election except for the position of delegate to a county, state or national political party convention. No candidate for any other high elective office shall be eligible to file as a candidate, to petition on the ballot as a candidate, to accept a nomination by a political party or by party convention, caucus or committee to fill a vacancy or to be declared a write-in candidate for more than one high elective office to be filled at the same election.
(D) Except as provided in subsection (E) or (G) below, no person shall be precluded from being elected or appointed to or holding an elective office for the reason that he or she has been elected or appointed to or holds another elective office.
(E) No person serving as a member of the legislature or in an elective office described in Article IV, §§ 1 or 20, or Article VII, §§ 3 or 10, of the Constitution of the state shall simultaneously serve in any other elective office, except that such a person may simultaneously serve in another elective office which is filled at an election held in conjunction with the annual meeting of a public body.
(F) Whenever an incumbent serving as a member of the legislature or in an elective office described in Article IV, §§ 1 or 20, or Article VII, §§ 3 or 10, of the Constitution of the state assumes another elective office, except an elective office filled at an election held in conjunction with the annual meeting of a public body, the office first held by the incumbent shall be deemed vacant.
(G) No person serving in a high elective office shall simultaneously serve in any other high elective office.
(H) Notwithstanding subsections (E) through (G) above, any person holding more than one high elective office upon September 13, 1997, shall be entitled to serve the remainder of all terms for which he or she was elected or appointed.
(Ord. 418, passed 1-2-1991; Ord. 579, passed 8-11-1998)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-108.02, 32-109, 32-603 and 32-604