[Adopted 12-4-1990 as Ch.
1, Art. 1, of the 1990 Code]
The City of Papillion, Nebraska, is hereby found and declared to be
a city of more than 5,000 persons. The municipality shall be governed by the
laws of Nebraska regulating cities of the first class.
All process affecting the municipality shall be served upon the mayor
or acting mayor or in the absence of both of said officers from the city officials,
then upon the municipal clerk.
The municipality is a body corporate and politic. It shall have the
power to sue and be sued; to purchase, lease and lease with option to buy;
to acquire property by gift or devise; to hold real and personal property
within or without the limits of the municipality, and real estate sold for
taxes for the use of the municipality in such manner and upon such terms and
conditions as may be deemed in the best interests of the municipality; to
sell, convey, exchange or lease any personal or real property owned by the
municipality, including park land, in such manner and upon such terms and
conditions as may be deemed in the best interests of the municipality; provided
that the real estate owned by the municipality may be conveyed without consideration
to the State of Nebraska or to the Nebraska Armory Board for state armory
sites, or if acquired for state armory sites, shall be conveyed in the manner
strictly as provided in Neb. R.R.S. §§ 18-1001 through 18-1006(4);
to make all contracts and do all other acts in relation to the property and
the concerns,of the municipality as may be necessary in the exercise of its
corporate powers; and to exercise such other and further powers as may be
conferred by law.
The municipality shall have the power to revise the ordinances of the
municipality from time to time and publish the same in pamphlet or book form.
The revision shall be evidenced by a general codification ordinance which
shall repeal all other ordinances in conflict and embrace as the governing
law of the municipality all provisions therein preserved. All ordinances in
force at the time of the codification shall continue in force for the purpose
of all rights acquired, fines, penalties, forfeitures and liabilities incurred.
