2009 Nebraska Code
Chapter 17 CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS AND VILLAGES
17-963 Facility; acquisition or construction; issuance of bonds; interest; election.

17-963. Facility; acquisition or construction; issuance of bonds; interest; election.

(1) The mayor and council of such city or the chairperson and board of trustees of such village, as the case may be, adopting the proposition to accept such gift or devise, make such purchase, erect such building or buildings, or maintain, manage, improve, remodel, equip, and operate a facility shall have the power to borrow money and pledge the property and credit of the city or village upon its municipal bonds, or otherwise, for such purpose or purposes, except that no such bonds shall be issued until after the same have been authorized by a majority vote of the electors voting on the proposition of their issuance at a general municipal election or at a special election called for the submission of such proposition.

(2) The bonds shall be payable in not to exceed twenty years from date and shall bear interest payable annually or semiannually. Notice of the time and place of the election shall be given by publication three successive weeks prior thereto in some legal newspaper printed in and of general circulation in such city or village or, if no newspaper is printed in such city or village, in a newspaper of general circulation in such city or village.

(3) No election shall be called until a petition therefor, signed by at least ten percent of the legal voters of such city or village, has been presented to the council or to the board of trustees. The number of voters of the city or village voting for the office of Governor at the last general election prior to the presenting of such petition shall be deemed the number of voters in the city or village for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of such a petition. If such a bond issue in such a city or village is defeated, the proposition of issuing bonds for such a purpose shall not be resubmitted to the voters therein within a period of six months from and after the date of such election.

Source

Laws 1945, c. 31, § 3, p. 149;
Laws 1947, c. 41, § 1, p. 156;
Laws 1957, c. 36, § 2, p. 201;
Laws 1965, c. 72, § 2, p. 293;
Laws 1969, c. 51, § 59, p. 309;
Laws 1971, LB 534, § 20;
Laws 1992, LB 1240, § 16.