(A) Retail or bottle club licenses issued by the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission and outstanding may be automatically renewed in the absence of a written request by the City Council to require the licensee to submit an application for renewal. Any licensed retail or bottle club premises located in an area which is annexed to the municipality shall file a formal application for a license, and while such application is pending, the licensee may continue all license privileges until the original license expires, is canceled, or is revoked. If such license expires within 60 days following the annexation date of such area, the license may be renewed by order of the Commission for not more than one year.
(Neb. RS 53-135)
(B) The Municipal Clerk/Treasurer, upon notice from the Commission, shall cause to be published in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the municipality, one time between January 10 and January 30 of each year, individual notice in the form prescribed by law of the right of automatic renewal of each retail liquor and beer license within the municipality, except that Class C license renewal notices shall be published between the dates of July 10 and July 30 of each year. If written protests to the issuance of automatic renewal of a license are filed in the office of the Municipal Clerk/Treasurer by three or more residents of the municipality on or before February 10, or August 10 for Class C licenses, the City Council shall hold a hearing to determine whether continuation of the license should be allowed. Upon the conclusion of any hearing required by this section, the City Council may request a licensee to submit an application.
(`77 Code, § 10-108) (Neb. RS 53-135.01)