The Municipal Attorney is the municipality’s legal advisor, and as such he or she shall commence, prosecute and defend all suits on behalf of the municipality. When requested by the governing body, he or she shall attend meetings of the governing body, and shall advise any municipal official in all matters of law in which the interests of the municipality may be involved. He or she shall draft such ordinances, bonds, contracts and other writings as may be required in the administration of the affairs of the municipality. He or she shall advise in writing to all such instruments (bonds, contracts and documents) as to whether, or not, the document is in legal and proper form. He or she shall prepare complaints, attend and prosecute violations of the municipal ordinances when directed to do so by the governing body. Without direction, he or she shall appear, and prosecute all cases for violation of the municipal ordinances that have been appealed to, and are pending in any higher court. He or she shall also examine, when requested to do so by the governing body, the ordinance records, and advise, and assist the Municipal Clerk as much as may be necessary to the end that each procedural step will be taken in the passage of each ordinance to insure that they will be valid, and subsisting local laws in so far as their passage, and approval are concerned. The governing body shall have the right to compensate the Municipal Attorney for legal services on such terms as the governing body and the Municipal Attorney may agree, and to employ any additional legal assistance as may be necessary out of the funds of the municipality.
(1999 Code, § 1-208)
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Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-610