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(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
(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)
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
(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.
(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) Every elective office shall be vacant upon the happening of any of the events specified in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-560, except as provided in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-561.
(B) (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) or (D) below, vacancies in village-elected offices shall be filled by the Board of Trustees for the balance of the unexpired term. Notice of a vacancy, except a vacancy resulting from the death of the incumbent, shall be in writing and presented to the Board at a regular or special meeting and shall appear as a part of the minutes of that meeting. The Board 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.
(2) The Chairperson of the Board shall call a special meeting of the Board or place the issue of filling the vacancy on the agenda at the next regular meeting at which time the Chairperson shall submit the name of a qualified registered voter to fill the vacancy for the balance of the unexpired term. The regular or special meeting shall occur upon the death of the incumbent, or within four weeks after the meeting at which such notice of vacancy has been presented.
(3) The Board shall vote upon the nominee, and if a majority votes in favor of the nominee, the vacancy shall be declared filled. If the nominee fails to receive a majority of the votes, the nomination shall be rejected and the Chairperson shall, at the next regular or special meeting, submit the name of another qualified registered voter to fill the vacancy.
(4) If the subsequent nominee fails to receive a majority of the votes, the Chairperson shall continue at that meeting to submit the names of qualified registered voters in nomination and the Board shall continue to vote upon the nominations at such meeting until the vacancy is filled. All Trustees present shall cast a ballot for or against the nominee. Any member of the Board who has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Board shall have the same rights, including voting, as if that person were elected.
(C) The Chairperson and Board of Trustees may, in lieu of filling a vacancy in a village elected office as provided in division (B) above, call a special election to fill that vacancy.
(D) If vacancies exist in the offices of one-half or more of the members of the Board of Trustees, the Secretary of State shall conduct a special village election to fill those vacancies.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-569)
Statutory reference:
Additional and similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 32-560 through 32-572
Ineligibility of official subjected to recall, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1308
ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND MOTIONS
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