CHAPTER 30: BOARD OF TRUSTEES; LEGISLATION
Section
Board of Trustees
   30.01   Election; terms; qualifications
   30.02   General powers
   30.03   Oath; organization; Chairperson
   30.04   Chairperson; powers and duties; absence
   30.05   Standing committees
   30.06   Vacancy
Ordinances, Resolutions and Motions
   30.20   Grant of power
   30.21   Resolutions and motions
   30.22   Introduction of ordinances
   30.23   Ordinances; style, title
   30.24   Reading and passage of ordinances, resolutions, orders, bylaws
   30.25   Publication or posting
   30.26   Certificate of publication or posting
   30.27   Effective date; emergency ordinances
   30.28   Amendments and revisions
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
§ 30.01 ELECTION; TERMS; QUALIFICATIONS.
   (A)   The corporate powers and duties of the village shall be vested in a Board of Trustees which shall consist of five members. At the first statewide general election held after the incorporation of the village, two Trustees shall be elected to serve two years and three Trustees shall be elected to serve four years. Thereafter the Board members shall be elected as provided in the Election Act. The terms shall begin on the first regular meeting of the Board in December following the statewide general election.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-202)
   (B)   The members of the Board of Trustees shall be elected at the statewide general election as provided in division (A) above and each four years thereafter. Except as provided in that division, the term of each Board member shall be four years or until his or her successor is elected and qualified.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-532)
   (C)   Any person may be a Trustee who is a citizen of the United States, resides in the village and is a registered voter.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-203)
   (D)   Unless the village provides otherwise, members of the Board of Trustees shall be elected from the village at large on a nonpartisan ballot.
   (E)   The Board of Trustees shall determine whether the person meets all requirements before swearing in a Trustee.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-602)
Statutory reference:
   Ability to elect Trustees at large or by ward, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-554
   Ability to provide for a partisan ballot, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-557
   Election Act, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-101
   Holding other office or employment, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 17-209.02 and 32-604
§ 30.02 GENERAL POWERS.
   (A)   The Board of Trustees shall have the power to pass ordinances:
      (1)   To prevent and remove nuisances within the village or within its one-mile zoning jurisdiction;
      (2)   To restrain and prohibit gambling;
      (3)   To provide for licensing and regulating theatrical and other amusements within the village;
      (4)   To prevent the introduction and spread of contagious diseases;
      (5)   To establish and regulate markets;
      (6)   To erect and repair bridges;
      (7)   To erect, repair, and regulate wharves;
      (8)   To regulate the landing of watercraft;
      (9)   To provide for the inspection of building materials to be used or offered for sale in the village;
      (10)   To govern the planting and protection of shade trees in the streets and the building of structures projecting upon or over and adjoining, and all excavations through and under, the sidewalks of the village;
      (11)   To maintain the peace, good government, and welfare of the village and its trade and commerce; and
      (12)   To enforce all ordinances by inflicting penalties upon inhabitants or other persons for violation of such ordinances, not exceeding $500 for any one offense, recoverable with costs.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-207)
   (B)   The village has the power and authority by ordinance to define, regulate, suppress, and prevent nuisances, and to declare what constitutes a nuisance, and to abate and remove the same. The village may exercise this power and authority within its corporate limits and extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction.
   (C)   The village may enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act with a county in which the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the village is located to provide for joint and cooperative action to abate, remove, or prevent nuisances within such extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction. The governing body of such village and the county board of such county shall first approve such interlocal agreement by ordinance or resolution.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1720)
§ 30.03 OATH; ORGANIZATION; CHAIRPERSON.
   Every village Trustee, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Nebraska and faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of his or her office. All Trustees elected to office shall qualify and meet on the first regular meeting of the Board of Trustees in December thereafter, organize, elect a Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, and appoint the officers required by law.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-204)
Statutory reference:
   Oath, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 11-101
§ 30.04 CHAIRPERSON; POWERS AND DUTIES; ABSENCE.
   (A)   The Chairperson shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Trustees and perform all duties of his or her office in accordance with the laws of the state and the ordinances of the village.
   (B)   The Chairperson of the Board of Trustees shall cause the ordinances of the Board to be printed and published for the information of the inhabitants and cause such ordinances to be carried into effect. In the absence of the Chairperson from any meeting of the Board, the Board shall have power to appoint a Chairperson pro tempore, who shall exercise and have the powers and perform the same duties as the regular Chairperson.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-210)
   (C)   The Chairperson and the Chairperson pro tempore shall have the same powers and privileges as other members of the Board of Trustees.
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