(A) All ordinances and resolutions or orders for the appropriation or payment of money shall require for their passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of the City Council. The Mayor may vote when his or her vote would provide the additional vote required to attain the number of votes equal to a majority of the number of members elected to the Council, and the Mayor shall, for the purpose of such vote, be deemed to be a member of the Council.
(B) The Mayor shall have 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 appropriations or claims, 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, he or she shall notify the City Clerk of the veto in writing. The Clerk shall notify the City Council in writing of the Mayor’s veto.
(C) (1) Any ordinance, 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.
(2) 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.
(Prior Code, § 1-407) (Ord. 672, passed 3-10-2015)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 17-111 and 17-614