NEBRASKA STATUTES AND CODES
16-227 Riots; disorderly conduct; use of explosives; weapons; vagabonds; lights; bonfires; regulation.
16-227. Riots; disorderlyconduct; use of explosives; weapons; vagabonds; lights; bonfires; regulation.A city of the first class may prevent and restrain riots,routs, noises, disturbances, breach of the peace, or disorderly assemblies in any street, house, or place in the city; regulate,punish, and prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks, or any other dangerous combustiblematerial in the streets, lots, grounds, and alleys or about or in the vicinityof any buildings; regulate, prevent, and punish the carrying of concealedweapons, except the carryingof a concealed handgun in compliance with the Concealed Handgun Permit Act;arrest, regulate, punish, fine, orset at work on the streets orelsewhere allvagabonds and persons found in the city without visible meansof support or some legitimate business; regulate and prevent the transportationor storage of gunpowder or other explosive or combustible articles, tar, pitch,resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite,petroleum or any other productions thereof, and other materials of like nature,the use of lights in stables, shops, orother places, and the building of bonfires; and regulate and prohibit thepiling of building material or any excavation or obstruction in the street. SourceLaws 1901, c. 18, § 48, XXXIV, p. 255; R.S.1913, § 4843; C.S.1922, § 4011; C.S.1929, § 16-228; R.S.1943, § 16-227; Laws 2009, LB430, § 3. Cross ReferencesConcealed Handgun Permit Act, see section 69-2427. AnnotationsCity's delegated power hereunder to control storage of petroleum products must be exercised by ordinance. State ex rel. Andruss v. Mayor & Council of City of North Platte, 120 Neb. 413, 233 N.W. 4 (1930).