All elective village officers shall be nominated and elected on a nonpartisan basis unless the village provides for a partisan ballot by ordinance. No ordinance providing for nomination and election on a partisan ballot shall permit affiliation with any party not recognized as a political party for the purposes of the Election Act, being Neb. RS 32-101 et seq. Such ordinance providing for nomination and election on a partisan ballot shall be adopted and effective not less than 60 days prior to the filing deadline.
(Neb. RS 32-557)