2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 16 CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS
16-681 Municipal utilities; service; rates; regulation.

16-681. Municipal utilities; service; rates; regulation.

Such city owning, operating or maintaining its own gas, water, power, light or heat system, shall furnish any person applying therefor, along the line of its pipes, mains, wires or other conduits, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, with gas, water, power, light or heat. It shall regulate and fix the rental or rate for gas, water, power, light or heat, and regulate and fix the charges for water meters, power meters, gas meters, light meters or heat meters or other device or means necessary for determining the consumption of gas, water, power, light or heat. It shall require water meters, gas meters, light meters, power meters, or heat meters to be used, or other device or means necessary for determining the consumption of gas, water, power, light or heat.

Source

Laws 1901, c. 18, § 57, p. 275;
R.S.1913, § 4957;
C.S.1922, § 4126;
C.S.1929, § 16-655;
Laws 1937, c. 23, § 1, p. 146;
C.S.Supp.,1941, § 16-655;
R.S.1943, § 16-681.

Annotations Water service to persons outside the corporate limits of the city is contractual and permissive. Burger v. City of Beatrice, 181 Neb. 213, 147 N.W.2d 784 (1967).