17-303 Wards; establish. - Nebraska Statutes

17-303. Wards; establish.The mayor and council shall, within ninety days after the declaration of the Secretary of State under section 17-301, divide the city into not less than two nor more than six wards as may be provided by ordinance of the mayor and city council thereof. Such wards shall contain, as nearly as practicable, an equal area and an equal number of legal voters. Such division and boundaries of such wards, so to be defined by ordinance, shall take effect on the first day of the first succeeding municipal year following the next general city election after such reorganization. Any council member whose term continues, by reason of his or her prior election under the statutes governing cities of the first class, through another year or years beyond the date of the reorganization as a city of the second class shall continue to hold his or her office as council member from the ward in which he or she is a resident as if elected for the same term under the statutes governing cities of the second class. SourceLaws 1933, c. 112, § 3, p. 453; C.S.Supp.,1941, § 17-164; R.S.1943, § 17-303; Laws 2002, LB 729, § 7. AnnotationsThis section provides how the number of wards shall be determined after proclamation of change from first-class city to second-class city. State ex rel. Cashman v. Carmean, 138 Neb. 819, 295 N.W. 801 (1941).