2012 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 17 - CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS AND VILLAGES
17-201 - Village, defined; incorporation; restriction on territory; condition.
Any town or village containing not less than one hundred nor more than eight hundred inhabitants incorporated as a city, town, or village under the laws of this state and any city of the second class that has adopted village government as provided by law shall be a village and shall have the rights, powers, and immunities hereinafter granted, and none other, except that all county seat towns shall have the powers and immunities as hereinafter granted. The population of a village shall consist of the people residing within the territorial boundaries of such village and the residents of any territory duly and properly annexed to such village.
Whenever a majority of the taxable inhabitants of any town or village, not incorporated under any laws of this state, shall present a petition to the county board of the county in which the petitioners reside, praying that they may be incorporated as a village and designating the name they wish to assume and the metes and bounds of the proposed village, and such county board or majority of the members thereof shall be satisfied that a majority of the taxable inhabitants of the proposed village have signed such petition and that inhabitants to the number of one hundred or more are actual residents of the territory described in the petition, the board shall declare the proposed village incorporated, enter the order of incorporation upon its records, and designate the metes and bounds thereof. Thereafter the village shall be governed by the provisions of law applicable to the government of villages. The county board shall, at the time of the incorporation of the village, appoint five persons, having the qualifications provided in section 17-203, as trustees, who shall hold their offices and perform all the duties required of them by law until the election and qualification of their successors at the time and in the manner provided in section 17-202, except that the county board shall not declare a proposed village incorporated or enter an order of incorporation if any portion of the territory of such proposed village is within five miles of a Nebraska incorporated village or city of any class.
- Laws 1879, § 40, p. 202;
Laws 1881, c. 22, § 1, p. 165;
Laws 1913, c. 137, § 1, p. 335;
R.S.1913, § 5051;
C.S.1922, § 4223;
C.S.1929, § 17-201;
R.S.1943, § 17-201;
Laws 1961, c. 48, § 1, p. 188;
Laws 1969, c. 91, § 1, p. 454;
Laws 1971, LB 62, § 2;
Laws 1993, LB 726, § 7.
2. Incorporation
3. Miscellaneous
1. Requirements
2. Incorporation
3. Miscellaneous
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