The Mayor of the municipality shall have the general and immediate control over all property and officials whether elected or appointed of the municipality. He or she shall preside at all meetings of the City Council and may vote when his or her vote shall be decisive and the Council is equally divided 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. His or her signature must appear on the Municipal Clerk’s minutes of all meetings and he or she must sign all resolutions which have been passed and warrants for the payment of money when ordered by the City Council; provided, any ordinance vetoed by the Mayor may be passed over his or her veto by a two-thirds vote by the members of the City Council, but if the Mayor neglects or refuses to sign any ordinance and returns it to the Council with his or her objections in writing at the next regular Council meeting, the same shall become a law without his or her signature. He or she shall from time to time communicate to the Council such information and recommendations as, in his or her opinion, may improve the municipality. He or she may require at reasonable intervals any municipal official to exhibit his or her accounts and make reports to the Council on any subject pertaining to his or her office. He or she shall have the power to remit fines or pardon any offense arising under the ordinances of the municipality. He or she may remove at any time an appointed police officer of the municipality. His or her territorial authority shall extend over all places within five miles of the corporate limits of the municipality for the enforcement of any health ordinance and one-half mile in all matters vested in him or her except taxation. He or she shall also have such other duties as the City Council may by resolution confer upon him or her, or in any other matters which the laws of the state repose in him or her. He or she shall be elected at the municipal election and shall serve a four-year term of office. Any candidate for Mayor must have resided within the municipality for 40 days prior to filing for the said office and must in addition be a qualified taxpayer.
(Neb. RS 17-110 through 17-117) (2000 Code, § 1-101)