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(A) At the organizational meeting of the Board of Trustees each year, the Chairperson shall appoint members of those standing committees as the Board may create by ordinance or resolution. The membership of the standing committees may be changed at any time by the Chairperson. The Chairperson shall be an ex officio member of each standing committee. The members of the standing committees shall serve terms of office of one year, unless reappointed.
(B) The standing committees shall be appointed or reappointed each year until changed by the Board of Trustees.
(A) Vacancies in village elected offices shall be filled by the Board of Trustees for the balance of the unexpired term except as provided in this section. Notice of a vacancy, except a vacancy resulting from the death of the incumbent, shall be in writing and presented to the Board of Trustees at a regular or special meeting and shall appear as a part of the minutes of such meeting.
(B) The Board of Trustees shall at once give public notice of the vacancy by causing to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the village or by posting in three public places in the village the office vacated and the length of the unexpired term.
(C) The Chairperson of the Board shall, within four weeks after the regular meeting at which such notice has been presented, or upon the death of the incumbent, call a special meeting of the Board of Trustees at which time the Chairperson shall submit the name of a qualified elector to fill the vacancy for the balance of the unexpired term.
(D) No officer who is removed at a recall election or resigns after the initiation of the recall process shall be appointed to fill the vacancy resulting from his or her removal or the removal of any other member of the Board of Trustees during the remainder of his or her term of office.
(E) Upon a majority vote of approval by the Board of Trustees, the vacancy shall be filled. If a majority vote is not reached, the nomination shall be rejected, and the Chairperson shall, at the next regular meeting, submit the name of another qualified elector. If the vote on the nominee fails to carry by majority vote, the Chairperson shall continue at such meeting to submit the names of qualified electors, and the Board of Trustees shall continue to vote upon such nominations until the vacancy is filled.
(F) The Chairperson shall cast his or her vote only in case of a tie vote of the Board of Trustees.
(G) All members of the Board of Trustees shall cast a ballot for or against each nominee.
(H) The Chairperson and Board of Trustees may, in lieu of filling a vacancy in a village office as provided in this section, call a special municipal election to fill such vacancy.
(I) If there are vacancies in the offices of a majority of the members of the Board of Trustees, there shall be a special municipal election conducted by the Secretary of State to fill such vacancies.
(Prior Code, § 1-104) (Ord. 103, passed 12-3-1990)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 17-212
ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND MOTIONS
In addition to its special powers, the village shall have the power to make all ordinances, bylaws, rules, regulations and resolutions, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as may be expedient for maintaining the peace, good government and welfare of the village and its trade and commerce and to enforce all ordinances by inflicting fines or penalties for the breach thereof, not exceeding $500 for any one offense, recoverable with costs.
(Neb. RS 17-505)
Statutory reference:
Adoption of standard codes, see Neb. RS 18-132 and 19-922
Prosecution in county court, see Neb. RS 25-2703
(A) Unless the Board of Trustees has specified other procedures, resolutions and motions shall be introduced in one of the methods prescribed in § 30.22 for the introduction of ordinances. The issue raised by the resolution or motion shall be disposed of in accordance with the usage of parliamentary law adopted for the guidance of the Board of Trustees.
(B) A majority vote shall be required to pass any resolution or motion. The vote on any resolution or motion shall be by roll call vote.
Unless the Board of Trustees has specified other procedures, ordinances shall be introduced by members of the Board of Trustees in one of the following ways:
(A) With the recognition of the Chairperson, a member may, in the presence and hearing of a majority of the members elected to the Board of Trustees, read aloud the substance of the proposed ordinance and file a copy with the Village Clerk-Treasurer for future consideration; or
(B) With the recognition of the Chairperson, a member may present the proposed ordinance to the Clerk-Treasurer who, in the presence and hearing of a majority of the members elected to the Board of Trustees, shall read aloud the substance of the ordinance and file it for future consideration.
(A) The style of all village ordinances shall be: “Be it ordained by the Chairperson and Board of Trustees of the Village of __________, Nebraska:....”
(Neb. RS 17-613)
(B) No ordinance shall contain a subject which is not clearly expressed in the title.
(Neb. RS 17-614)
(A) All ordinances and resolutions or orders for the appropriation or payment of money shall require for their passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of all elected members of the Board of Trustees. Ordinances of a general or permanent nature shall be read by title on three different days unless three-fourths of the Board of Trustees vote to suspend this requirement. Such requirement shall not be suspended for any ordinance for the annexation of territory, or the redrawing of boundaries for Village Board of Trustees election districts or wards or as otherwise provided by law. In case this requirement is suspended, the ordinance shall be read by title and then moved for final passage. Three-fourths of the Board of Trustees may require a reading of any such ordinance in full before enactment under either procedure set out in this section.
(Neb. RS 17-614)
(B) On the passage or adoption of every bylaw or ordinance, and every resolution or order to enter into a contract by the Board of Trustees, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded. To pass or adopt any bylaw, ordinance or any such resolution or order a concurrence of a majority of the whole number of members elected to the Board of Trustees shall be required. All appointments of the officers by the Board of Trustees shall be made viva voce, and the concurrence of a like majority shall be required, and the names of those, and for whom they voted, on the vote resulting in an appointment, shall be recorded. The requirements of a roll call or viva voce vote shall be satisfied by a village which utilizes an electronic voting device which allows the yeas and nays of each member of the Board of Trustees to be readily seen by the public.
(Neb. RS 17-616)
Statutory reference:
Adjustments to boundaries of election districts, see Neb. RS 17-614
All ordinances of a general nature shall, before they take effect, be published within 15 days after they are passed:
(A) In legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the village or, if no paper is published in the village, then by posting a written or printed copy in each of three public places in the village; or
(B) In book, pamphlet or electronic form.
(Neb. RS 17-613)
Statutory reference:
Additional provisions, see Neb. RS 18-131
Chairperson of Board of Trustees; duties, see Neb. RS 17-210
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