2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 17-556 — Public safety; firearms; explosives; riots; regulation.
Section 17-556Public safety; firearms; explosives; riots; regulation.
Second-class cities and villages shall have power to prevent and restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances or disorderly assemblages; to regulate, prevent, restrain or remove nuisances in residential parts of municipalities and to designate what shall be considered a nuisance; to regulate, punish, and prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks or any other dangerous combustible material in the streets, lots, grounds, alleys or about or in the vicinity of any buildings; to regulate, prevent and punish the carrying of concealed weapons; and to arrest, regulate, punish, fine or set at work on the streets, or elsewhere, all vagrants and persons found without means of support or some legitimate business.
Source:
- Laws 1879, § 69, XXV, p. 216
Laws 1881, c. 23, § 8, XXV, p. 184
Laws 1885, c. 20, § 1, XXV, p. 175
Laws 1887, c. 12, § 1, XXV, p. 303
R.S.1913, § 5130
C.S.1922, § 4305
C.S.1929, § 17-454
- Cited but not discussed. City of Syracuse v. Farmers Elevator, Inc., 182 Neb. 783, 157 N.W.2d 394 (1968).
Power to "designate" what may be a public nuisance does not give a municipality the right to prohibit house-to-house solicitation of sales of merchandise. Jewel Tea Company v. City of Geneva, 137 Neb. 768, 291 N.W. 664 (1940).
~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska
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