(A) When the City Treasurer holds funds of the city in excess of the amount required for maintenance or set aside for betterments and improvements, the City Treasurer may and is hereby authorized, to invest the surplus funds in the outstanding bonds or registered warrants of the city, bonds and debentures issued either singly or collectively by any of the 12 federal land banks, the 12 intermediate credit banks, or the 13 banks for cooperatives under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, or in interest-bearing bonds or the obligations of the United States. The interest on such bonds or warrants shall be credited to the fund out of which the bonds or warrants were purchased.
(B) All income received by the city from public utilities and from the payment and collection of water taxes, rents, rates or assessments shall be applied to the payment of running expenses, interest on bonds or money borrowed and the erection and construction of public utilities; should there be any surplus, it shall be annually created into a sinking fund for the payment of public utility bonds or for the improvements of the works, or into the general fund as the Council may direct. The surplus remaining, if any, may and the City Treasurer is hereby authorized, be invested in interest-bearing bonds or obligations of the United States.
(C) (1) Whenever the City has accumulated a surplus of any fund in excess of its current needs or has accumulated a sinking fund for the payment of its bonds and the money in such sinking fund exceeds the amount necessary to pay the principal and interest of any such bonds which become due during the current year, the City Treasurer may and is hereby is authorized, invest any such surplus in excess of current needs or such excess in its sinking fund in certificates of deposit, in time deposits, and in any securities in which the State Investment Officer is authorized to invest pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act and as provided in the authorized investment guidelines of the Nebraska Investment Council in effect on the date the investment is made. The State Investment Officer shall upon request furnish a copy of current authorized investment guidelines of the Nebraska Investment Council.
(2) Nothing in division (C)(1) shall be construed to authorize investments in venture capital.
Statutory reference:
City funds; deposits, transfers, see Neb. RS 16-712 through 16-721
Similar state law provisions, see Neb. RS 77-2341