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§ 33.07 PARTISAN BALLOT; WHEN ALLOWED; REQUIREMENTS.
   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 purposes of the Election Act. 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. Rev. Stat. § 32-557)
§ 33.08 FILING FEE.
   (A)   Except as provided in divisions (D) or (E) below, a filing fee shall be paid to the Village Clerk-Treasurer by or on behalf of each candidate for village office prior to filing for office. The fee shall be placed in the General Fund of the village. No candidate filing forms shall be filed until the proper payment or the proper receipt showing the payment of such filing fee is presented to the filing officer. On the day of the filing deadline, the Village Clerk-Treasurer’s office shall remain open to receive filing fees until the hour of the filing deadline.
   (B)   Except as provided in divisions (D) or (E) below, the filing fee shall be a sum equal to 1% of the annual salary as of November 30 of the year preceding the election for the office for which he or she files as a candidate.
   (C)   All declared write-in candidates shall pay the filing fees that are required for the office at the time that they present the write-in affidavit to the filing officer.
   (D)   No filing fee shall be required for any candidate filing for an office in which a per diem is paid rather than a salary or for which there is a salary of less than $500 per year.
   (E)   (1)   No filing fee shall be required of any candidate completing an affidavit requesting to file for elective office in forma pauperis.
      (2)   For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
         AVAILABLE RESOURCES. Includes every type of property or interest in property that an individual owns and may convert into cash except:
            1.   Real property used as a home;
            2.   Household goods of a moderate value used in the home; and
            3.   Assets to a maximum value of $3,000 used by a recipient in a planned effort directed towards self-support.
         PAUPER. A person whose income and other resources for maintenance are found under assistance standards to be insufficient for meeting the cost of his or her requirements and whose reserve of cash or other available resources does not exceed the maximum available resources that an eligible individual may own.
   (F)   If any candidate dies prior to an election, the spouse of the candidate may file a claim for refund of the filing fee with the Board of Trustees prior to the date of the election. Upon approval of the claim by the Board of Trustees, the filing fee shall be refunded.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-608)
§ 33.09 CAUCUS CANDIDATES.
   (A)   The Board of Trustees may, by ordinance, call a caucus for the purpose of nomination of candidates for offices to be filled in the village election. This caucus shall be held at least ten days before the filing deadline for that election, and the Board of Trustees shall publish notice of the caucus in at least one legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the county at least once each week for two consecutive weeks before the caucus.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-601.01)
   (B)   The chairperson of the caucus at which candidates are nominated shall notify the Village Clerk-Treasurer in writing of the candidates so nominated, not later than two days following the caucus. The Village Clerk-Treasurer shall then notify the persons so nominated of their nomination, this notification to take place not later than five days after the caucus. No candidate so nominated shall have his or her name placed upon the ballot unless, not more than ten days after the holding of the caucus, he or she files with the Village Clerk-Treasurer a written statement accepting the nomination of the caucus and pays the filing fee, if any, for the office for which he or she was nominated.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-601.02)
   (C)   The provisions of this section shall not preclude in any manner any person from filing for the offices to which this section is applicable, either by direct filing or by petition.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-601.03)
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