(A) The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the City Council. The Mayor may vote when his or her vote would provide the additional vote required to attain the number of votes equal to a majority of the number of members elected to the City Council 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. He or she shall have superintendence and control of all the officers and affairs of the city, and shall take care that the ordinances of the city and all laws governing cities of the second class are complied with.
(B) The Mayor shall have the power to veto or sign any ordinance passed by the City Council. Any ordinance vetoed by the Mayor may be passed over the veto by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Council. If the Mayor neglects or refuses to sign any ordinance, and return the same with his or her objections in writing at the next regular meeting of the Council, the same shall become a law without his or her signature.
(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, the police, health, security, ornament, comfort, and general prosperity of the city.
(D) The Mayor shall have the power, when he or she deems it necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his or her accounts or other papers, and to make reports to the Council, in writing, touching any subject or matter pertaining to his or her office.
(E) The Mayor shall have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him or her by ordinance, over all places within five miles of the corporate limits of the city, for the enforcement of any health or quarantine ordinance and regulation thereof, and shall have jurisdiction in all matters vested in him or her by ordinance, excepting taxation, within one-half mile of the corporate limits of the city.
(F) The Mayor shall have the power to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for all offenses arising under the ordinances of the city.
(G) The Mayor shall hold no other elective or appointive office or employment with the city.
(H) The Mayor shall sign the City Clerk’s minutes of all meetings of the City Council, and he or she shall sign all resolutions that have been passed and warrants for the payment of money when ordered by the Council.
(I) The Mayor shall have such other duties as are reposed in the Mayor by the laws of the state or as the Council may by resolution confer upon the Mayor.
(Prior Code, § 30.02) (Ord. 625, passed 2-18-2014)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-110 through 17-114 and 17-117
Restrictions on holding other office or employment, see Neb. RS 17-108.02, 32-109, 32-603, and 32-604