(A) The Election Commissioner, County Clerk, or Municipal Clerk shall, within 40 days after the election, prepare, sign, and deliver a certificate of nomination or a certificate of election to each person whom the canvassing board has declared to have received the highest vote for each municipal office. No person shall be issued a certificate of nomination as a candidate of a political party unless such person has received a number of votes at least equal to 5% of the total ballots cast at the primary election by registered voters affiliated with that political party in the district which the office for which he or she is a candidate serves.
(B) A certificate of election prepared by the Municipal Clerk shall be in the form as nearly as possible prescribed in Neb. RS 32-1033 and shall be signed by the Mayor, under the seal of the Municipality, and countersigned by the Clerk.
(Neb. RS 19-3041, 32-558, 32-1033)
Statutory reference:
Duty to issue certificates, see Neb. RS 32-558