2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 16 CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS
16-227 Riots; disorderly conduct; use of explosives; weapons; vagabonds; lights; bonfires; regulation.

16-227. Riots; disorderly conduct; use of explosives; weapons; vagabonds; lights; bonfires; regulation.

A city of the first class may prevent and restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances, breach of the peace, or disorderly assemblies in any street, house, or place in the city; regulate, punish, and prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks, or any other dangerous combustible material in the streets, lots, grounds, and alleys or about or in the vicinity of any buildings; regulate, prevent, and punish the carrying of concealed weapons, except the carrying of a concealed handgun in compliance with the Concealed Handgun Permit Act; arrest, regulate, punish, fine, or set at work on the streets or elsewhere all vagabonds and persons found in the city without visible means of support or some legitimate business; regulate and prevent the transportation or storage of gunpowder or other explosive or combustible articles, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, petroleum or any other productions thereof, and other materials of like nature, the use of lights in stables, shops, or other places, and the building of bonfires; and regulate and prohibit the piling of building material or any excavation or obstruction in the street.

Source
    Laws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXIV, p. 255;
    R.S.1913, § 4843;
    C.S.1922, § 4011;
    C.S.1929, § 16-228;
    R.S.1943, § 16-227;
    Laws 2009, LB430, § 3.

Cross References
    Concealed Handgun Permit Act, see section 69-2427.
Annotations City's delegated power hereunder to control storage of petroleum products must be exercised by ordinance. State ex rel. Andruss v. Mayor & Council of City of North Platte, 120 Neb. 413, 233 N.W. 4 (1930).


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