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Chapter 14. Cities of the Metropolitan Class

§§14-501, 526

Statute: 14-501
Statutory fund; annual appropriation; limitation.

The city council shall annually or biennially and within the first week of January, if possible, appropriate money and credits of the city in such amounts as may be deemed necessary and proper and set the same aside to the following designated funds to be known as statutory funds: (1) For the fire department of the city, (2) for the police department of the city, (3) for the health department of the city, (4) for the public library, (5) for the purposes of the welfare board, and (6) for the purpose of paying judgments and costs. The amounts so appropriated and set aside to such funds respectively shall be the maximum amounts that may be appropriated to or expended from such funds within the fiscal year or biennial period for the purposes for which such funds respectively are created.

Source:
Laws 1921, c. 116, art. IV, § 1, p. 468; C.S.1922, § 3624; C.S.1929, § 14-501; R.S.1943, § 14-501; Laws 2000, LB 1116, § 10. Operative date January 1, 2001.

Statute: 14-526
Bonds; maximum amount authorized annually; exceptions.

Bonds in excess of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars may not be issued in any one year, except for renewal or refunding to fund floating indebtedness or district improvement bonds, to finance grading, to finance public improvements, sewers and intersections, to erect police stations and workhouses, to acquire existing utility property, to construct, remodel or complete a municipal auditorium, to pay for property purchased or acquired in condemnation proceedings, for a public library, subways and conduits, and useful and needed public buildings, to pay for the construction and maintenance of gas works, waterworks, electric light plants or power plants, or any other public utility authorized by this act, or land therefor.

Source:
Laws 1921, c. 116, art. IV, § 21, p. 478; C.S.1922, § 3647; C.S.1929, § 14-524.


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