(A) (1) (a) The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the City Council.
(b) The Mayor may vote on any matter that requires either a majority vote of the City Council or a majority vote of all the elected members of the City Council if:
1. The Mayor’s vote is required due to City Council members being equally divided; or
2. A majority of City Council members or a majority vote of all the elected members cannot be reached due to absence, vacancy or abstention of one or more City Council members.
(c) For the purpose of such vote, the Mayor is deemed to be a member of the City Council.
(2) The Mayor shall have superintendence and control of all the officers and affairs of the city and shall take care that the ordinances of the city and all laws governing cities of the second class are complied with.
(Neb. RS 17-110)
(B) The Mayor shall have the power to veto or sign any ordinance passed by the City Council and to approve or veto any order, bylaw, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim. If the Mayor approves the ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, contract or claim, he or she shall sign it and it shall become effective. If the Mayor vetoes the ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, contract or any item or items of appropriation or claim, he or she shall return it to the City Council stating that the measure is vetoed. The Mayor may issue the veto at the meeting at which the measure passed or within seven calendar days after the meeting. If the Mayor issues the veto after the meeting, the Mayor shall notify the City Clerk of the veto in writing. The Clerk shall notify the City Council in writing of the Mayor’s veto. Any order, bylaw, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim vetoed by the Mayor, may be passed over his or her veto by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Council. If the Mayor neglects or refuses to sign any ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim, but fails to veto the measure within the time required by this section, the measure shall become effective without his or her signature. The Mayor may veto any item or items of any appropriation bill or any claims bill and approve the remainder thereof, and the item or items vetoed may be passed by the Council over the veto as in other cases.
(Neb. RS 17-111)
(C) The Mayor shall, from time to time, communicate to the City Council such information and recommend such measures as, in his or her opinion, may tend to the improvement of the finances, police, health, security, ornament, comfort and general prosperity of the city.
(Neb. RS 17-112)
(D) The Mayor shall have the power, when he or she deems it necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his or her accounts or other papers and to make reports to the Council, in writing, touching any subject or matter pertaining to his or her office.
(Neb. RS 17-113)
(E) The Mayor shall have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him or her by ordinance over all places within five miles of the corporate limits of the city for the enforcement of any health or quarantine ordinance and regulation thereof, and shall have jurisdiction in all matters vested in him or her by ordinance, excepting taxation, within the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the city.
(Neb. RS 17-114)
(F) The Mayor shall have the power to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for all offenses arising under the ordinances of the city.
(Neb. RS 17-117)
(G) The Mayor shall hold no other elective or appointive office or employment with the city.
(H) The Mayor shall sign the City Clerk’s minutes of all meetings of the City Council, and he or she shall sign all resolutions that have been passed and warrants for the payment of money when ordered by the Council.
(I) The Mayor shall have such other duties as are reposed in the Mayor by the laws of the state or as the Council may by resolution confer upon the Mayor.
(J) The Mayor shall require all city officials and employees to give him or her a receipt for any and all articles belonging to the city now in their charge and all that may hereafter come under their charge. All outgoing city officers and employees shall deliver over to the Mayor or account to him or her for all articles used by them in the duties of their office whenever their term of office or employment with the city ceases.
(Prior Code, § 1-104)
Statutory reference:
Restrictions on holding other office or employment, see Neb. RS 17-108.02, 32-109, 32-603 and 32-604