(A) When the Village Clerk-Treasurer holds funds of the village in excess of the amount required for maintenance or set aside for betterments and improvements, the Board of Trustees may, by resolution, direct and authorize the Clerk-Treasurer to invest the surplus funds in the outstanding bonds or registered warrants of the village, 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.
(Neb. RS 17-608)
(B) All income received by the village 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 Board may direct. The surplus remaining, if any, may, if the Board so directs, be invested in interest-bearing bonds or obligations of the United States.
(Neb. RS 17-540)
(C) The Board of Trustees may, by resolution, direct and authorize the Clerk-Treasurer to dispose of the surplus electric light, water or gas funds, or the funds arising from the sale of electric light, water or natural gas distribution properties, by the payment of outstanding electric light, water or gas distribution bonds or water warrants then due. The excess, if any, after such payments, may be transferred to the General Fund of the village.
(Neb. RS 17-609)
(D) (1) Whenever the village 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 Board of Trustees may 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 State Capital Expansion Act and the State Funds Investment Act and as provided in the authorized investment guidelines of the State 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 State Investment Council.
(2) Nothing in division (D)(1) above shall be construed to authorize investments in venture capital.
(Neb. RS 77-2341)
Statutory reference:
State Capital Expansion Act, see Neb. RS 72-1261 et seq.
State Funds Investment Act, see Neb. RS 72-1237 et seq.