2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 17-108 — Officers; salaries.

Section 17-108
Officers; salaries.

The officers and employees of the city shall receive such compensation as the mayor and council shall fix by ordinance.

Source:

Laws 1879, § 7, p. 195

Laws 1881, c. 23, § 2, p. 168

Laws 1911, c. 16, § 1, p. 133

R.S.1913, § 5000

Laws 1919, c. 46, § 1, p. 130

C.S.1922, § 4169

C.S.1929, § 17-108

Laws 1935, c. 36, § 3, p. 149

C.S.Supp.,1941, § 17-108

Laws 1943, c. 30, § 2, p. 140

R.S.1943, § 17-108

Laws 1945, c. 25, § 1, p. 134

Laws 1947, c. 31, § 1(1), p. 140

Laws 1949, c. 21, § 1, p. 92

Laws 1953, c. 33, § 1, p. 123

Laws 1969, c. 89, § 1, p. 452

Annotations:

To employ an attorney as a private practitioner, who is also city attorney, to foreclose tax sale certificates on a percent basis violates this and other sections, though, in proper cases, he may collect for his services on basis of quantum meruit. Darnell v. City of Broken Bow, 139 Neb. 844, 299 N.W. 274 (1941).

Provision for compensation of employees is not required to be in writing, and may be fixed at time of employment. Morearty v. City of McCook, 117 Neb. 113, 219 N.W. 839 (1928).

While the statute does not fix the salary of the mayor, it directs that the mayor and other officers named shall receive salaries to be fixed by ordinance. Dean v. State ex rel. Miller, 56 Neb. 301, 76 N.W. 555 (1898).

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska