23-101. Counties; corporate name. Each county, established in this state according to the laws thereof, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The county of ……………, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and shall be impleaded, defend and be defended against, in any court having […]
23-102. County seal; use. The board shall procure and keep a seal, with such emblems and devices as it may think proper, which may be either an engraved or ink stamp seal and which shall be the seal of the county, and no other seal shall be used by the county clerk, except where the […]
23-103. Powers; how exercised. The powers of the county as a body corporate or politic, shall be exercised by a county board, to wit: In counties under township organization by the board of supervisors, which shall be composed of the town and such other supervisors as are or may be elected pursuant to law; in […]
23-104. Powers. Each county shall have power: (1) To purchase and hold the real and personal estate necessary for the use of the county; (2) to purchase, lease, lease with option to buy, acquire by gift or devise, and hold for the benefit of the county real estate sold by virtue of judicial proceedings in […]
23-104.01. Compacts; conditions; limitations; powers. Compacts between counties for the joint exercise of powers may be made only upon compliance with the following conditions and subject to the following limitations: (1) The terms of the obligation imposed by the compact shall be reduced to writing, shall be required to be signed by a majority of […]
23-104.02. Counties containing a city of the primary class; public grounds; powers. Any county in which is located a city of the primary class shall have power to purchase, hold, and improve public grounds and parks within the limits of the county, to provide for the protection and preservation of the same, to provide for […]
23-104.03. Power to provide protective services. Each county shall have the authority (1) to plan, initiate, fund, maintain, administer, and evaluate facilities, programs, and services that meet the rehabilitation, treatment, care, training, educational, residential, diagnostic, evaluation, community supervision, and protective service needs of dependent, aged, blind, disabled, ill, or infirm persons, persons with a mental […]
23-104.04. Commission on the status of women; establish; fund. Any county may establish and fund a commission on the status of women. Such commission shall advise the county board on the existence of social, economic, and legal barriers affecting women and ways to eliminate such barriers. Source Laws 1980, LB 780, § 1.
23-104.05. Commission on the status of women; purposes. The purpose of a commission established under section 23-104.04 shall be to emphasize studying the changing and developing roles of women in American society including: (1) Recognition of socioeconomic factors that influence the status of women; (2) Development of individual potential; (3) Encouragement of women to utilize […]
23-105. County property; control; duty of county board; annual inventory. The county boards of the several counties shall have the power to take and have the care and custody of all the real and personal estate owned by the county; and, in connection with the foregoing, to file and to require each county officer of […]
23-106. County funds; management; establish petty cash fund; purpose; power of county board. (1) The county board shall manage the county funds and county business except as otherwise specifically provided. (2) The county board shall have the authority to establish a petty cash fund for such county for the purpose of making payments for subsidiary […]
23-107. Public grounds and buildings; sale or lease; terms; illegal sale; when validated. The county board shall have power to make all orders respecting the property of the county; to keep the county buildings insured; to sell the public grounds or buildings of the county, and purchase other properties in lieu thereof; Provided, that the […]
23-107.01. Real estate owned by county; sale or lease; terms and procedures. (1)(a) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section and section 80-329, any county board has power to sell or lease real estate owned by the county and not required for county purposes at a fair market value regardless of the value […]
23-108. Roads; establishment; abandonment; eminent domain. The county board shall have power to lay out, alter or discontinue any road running through its county, to vacate or discontinue public roads running parallel and adjacent to state or federal highways not more than four hundred yards from said highway, or any part thereof, or any abandoned […]
23-109. Claims; audit; settlement; imprest system of accounting. (1) The county board shall have power to examine and settle all accounts against the county and all accounts concerning the receipts and expenditures of the county. (2) The county board may adopt by resolution an imprest system of accounting for the county and authorize the county […]
23-110. City or village plat; vacation. The county board shall have power to authorize the vacation of any city or village plat when the same is not within an incorporated city or village, on the petition of two-thirds of the owners thereof. Source Laws 1879, § 23, p. 360; Laws 1887, c. 26, § 1, […]
23-111. City or village plat; change; when authorized. The county board shall have power to change the name of any city or village plat on the petition of a majority of the local voters residing therein, when the inhabitants thereof have not become a body corporate. Source Laws 1879, § 23, p. 360; Laws 1887, […]
23-1111. County officers; clerks and assistants; county board; budgetary approval. (1) The county officers in all counties shall have the necessary clerks and assistants for such periods and at such salaries as the county officers may determine, subject to budgetary approval by the county board. (2) In carrying out its budget-making duties, a county board […]
23-1112. County officers; mileage; rate; county board; powers. When it is necessary for any county officer or his or her deputy or assistants, except any county sheriff or his or her deputy, to travel on business of the county, he or she shall be allowed mileage at the rate per mile allowed by section 81-1176 […]
23-1112.01. County officers; employees; use of automobile; allowance. If a trip or trips included in an expense claim filed by any county officer or employee for mileage are made by personal automobile or otherwise, only one claim shall be allowed pursuant to section 23-1112, regardless of the fact that one or more persons are transported […]
