(A) The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the City Council and shall have the right to vote when his or her vote will provide the additional vote required to create a number of votes equal to a majority of the number of members elected to the City Council. He or she shall have the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the city and shall take care that the ordinances of the city and the provisions of the law relating to the cities of the first class are complied with. He or she may administer oaths and shall sign the commissions and appointments of all the officers appointed in the city.
(B) (1) The Mayor shall have the power to approve or veto any ordinance passed by the City Council, and to approve or veto any order, by-law, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim. If the Mayor approves the ordinance, order, by-law, resolution, contract, or claim, he or she shall sign it, and it shall become effective. If the Mayor vetoes the ordinance, order, by-law, 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 the 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 City Clerk shall notify the City Council in writing of the Mayor’s veto. Any ordinance, order, by-law, resolution, award, 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 all the members elected to the Council, notwithstanding his or her veto.
(2) If the Mayor neglects or refuses to sign any ordinance, order, by-law, 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.
(3) The Mayor may veto any item or items of any appropriation bill or any claims bills, and approve the remainder thereof, and the item or items so vetoed may be passed by the City Council over the veto as in other cases.
(C) The Mayor shall, from time to time, communicate to the City Council such information and recommend such measures as in his or her opinion may tend to the improvement of the finances of the city, the police, the health, comfort, and general prosperity of the city, and may have such jurisdiction as may be invested in him or her by ordinances over all places within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the city, for the enforcement of health or quarantine ordinances and the regulation thereof.
(D) The Mayor of a city of the first class shall have power after conviction to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for all offenses arising under the ordinances of the city.
(E) The Mayor or City Council shall have power, when he, she, or it deems it necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his or her accounts to other papers and make reports to the City Council, in writing, touching any subject or matter it may require pertaining to the office.
(Prior Code, § 30.11) (Ord. 1951, passed 2-29-2012)
Statutory reference:
Mayor; legislative recommendations; jurisdiction, see Neb. RS 16-314
Mayor; pardons; remission of fines, see Neb. RS 16-316
Mayor; powers and duties, see Neb. RS 16-312
Mayor; veto power; passage over veto, see Neb. RS 16-313
Officers; reports required, see Neb. RS 16-327