(A) Required of certain officers. Each of the following officers of the municipality, as well as those officers elsewhere required by law, shall, before entering upon the duties of each of their offices respectively, execute a bond, conditioned that he or she will faithfully and impartially perform and discharge the duties of his or her office in accordance with general law and the ordinances of the municipality. Said bonds shall be executed with a corporate surety approved by the state and shall be given in penal sums as follows, to-wit: Municipal Clerk-Treasurer, in the minimum amount of $10,000; Chief of Police, $1,000; each police officer, $1,000. The Mayor and City Council may also require bond of any other officer or employee in such sum as they may by resolution designate. No bond shall be deemed to be given or complete until the approval thereof as to form and substance by the Municipal Attorney in writing thereon is indorsed on the bond and until the approval of the corporate surety thereon is indorsed in writing on said instrument by the Mayor and Municipal Clerk pursuant to action of the City Council. Official bonds shall be approved by motion of the City Council. Official bonds shall be filed with the Municipal Clerk and recorded in his or her office, except that of the Municipal Clerk which shall be filed with the Mayor, and shall be for the benefit of the municipality and for any and all persons injured by a breach of the conditions thereof; provided, the premium on any official bond required to be given, where corporate surety bond is required, given and approved, may be paid for out of the general fund or other proper municipal fund; and provided further, the Mayor and City Council may require Municipal Treasurer, if they deem it advisable, to give additional bond, the penalty in which shall never exceed double the average amount of money passing through his or her hands at any one time.
(B) Insufficient sureties. Should the sureties on the official bond of any officer of the municipality, in the opinion of the Mayor and City Council, become insufficient, the Mayor and City Council may by resolution fix a reasonable time within which such officer may give a new bond or additional sureties as directed by such resolution, and should such official fail, refuse or neglect to give such new bond or sureties within the time prescribed by said resolution to the satisfaction and approval of said Mayor and City Council, then the office shall by such failure or neglect become vacant and it shall be the duty of the Mayor by and with the consent of the City Council to appoint a competent and qualified person to fill such office.
(C) Municipal officers. No member of the City Council or other officer of the municipality shall be accepted as surety on any officers bond or upon any contractor’s bond or license or appeal bond or any bond given to the municipality under any circumstances.
(1999 Code, § 1-301)
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Related provisions, see Neb. RS 11-103 through 11-118, 17-604