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LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA
ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE
FIRST SESSION
LEGISLATIVE BILL 59
Introduced by Sanders, 45; Brandt, 32.
Read first time January 09, 2025
Committee:
1 A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to natural resources districts; to amend
2 section 2-3224, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska; to provide for
3 the disbursement of funds of a district by electronic payment
4 systems; and to repeal the original section.
5 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,
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1 Section 1. Section 2-3224, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska, is
2 amended to read:
3 2-3224 (1) Funds of the district shall be paid out or expended only
4 upon the authorization or approval of the board of directors and by:
5 (a) Check check, draft, warrant, or other instrument in writing,
6 signed by the treasurer, assistant treasurer, or such other officer,
7 employee, or agent of the district as shall be authorized by the
8 treasurer to sign in his behalf of the treasurer; or
9 (b) Electronic payment system including an electronic funds transfer
10 and automatic clearinghouse transfer.
11 (2) The Provided, such authorization of the treasurer for another to
12 sign on behalf of the treasurer shall be in writing and filed with the
13 secretary of the district.
14 (3) In ; and provided further, in the event that the treasurer's
15 bond shall not expressly insure the district against loss resulting from
16 the fraudulent, illegal, negligent, or otherwise wrongful or unauthorized
17 acts or conduct by or on the part of any and every person thus authorized
18 to sign on behalf of the treasurer, there shall be procured and filed
19 with the secretary of the district, together with the authorization of
20 the treasurer, a corporate surety bond, effective for protection against
21 such loss, in such form and amount and with such corporate surety as
22 shall be approved in writing by the signed endorsement thereon of any two
23 officers of the district other than the treasurer.
24 (4) The secretary shall report to the board at each meeting any such
25 bonds filed, or any change in the status of any such bonds, since the
26 last previous meeting of the board.
27 Sec. 2. Original section 2-3224, Reissue Revised Statutes of
28 Nebraska, is repealed.
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Statutes affected: Introduced: 2-3224