Except as provided in sections 10-134 to 10-141, the State Treasurer shall be the state fiscal agent, and all bonds and coupons issued by the state shall be made payable at the office of the State Treasurer. Except as provided in sections 10-134 to 10-141, the county treasurer shall be the county fiscal agent, and all bonds and coupons issued by any county, township, precinct, city, village, school district, or other political subdivision of a county shall be made payable at the office of the county treasurer, except that all revenue bonds and coupons of cities of the first class may at the discretion of such city be payable at the office of the city treasurer. If the interest on any such bonds is represented by coupon notes, such coupon notes shall contain a provision fixing the rate of interest they shall bear after due until they are paid. When any of the political subdivisions as above enumerated lies in two or more counties, the bonds shall be payable at the office of either one of the county treasurers as may be provided in the history and in the bonds or as provided in sections 10-134 to 10-141.

All officers, designated by law for the purpose, shall remit to the State Treasurer, or county treasurer, at least ten days before maturity of any bonds or coupons heretofore or hereafter made payable at the office of the State Treasurer, or the office of any county treasurer, sufficient money out of the tax collected for the purpose, for the redemption of such bonds and coupons. All expenses for exchange and postage, shall be a proper charge against the state, county, city, township, precinct, village, school district or other political subdivision, for which such money is remitted, and shall be allowed the treasurer in his settlement. Any and all such bonds and coupons as shall be paid by any county treasurer shall be a charge against the proper fund of any township, precinct, city, village, school district or other political subdivision for which he has collected taxes or received the funds. Each county treasurer in making remittance for the payment of bonds and coupons shall make such remittance either in New York bank exchange or federal reserve bank exchange or its equivalent.

On receipt of any funds by the state agent, it shall be the duty of such agent to notify the officer from whom received, of the receipt thereof; and immediately on the payment of such bonds or coupons for which funds were remitted, said coupons or bonds shall be canceled and returned to the officer from whom such funds were received.

No proposition shall be submitted to the electors of any county for donations of bonds or any other valuables to any railroad corporation, unless said railroad corporation, through its authorized and responsible agent, files for record in the county clerk's office, where such donations of bonds or any other valuables are to be voted upon, a plat of the survey showing the exact line of route through said county, within at least two weeks previous to such election; and no such bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, or donations, shall be valid if they are voted, unless said railroad corporation builds its line of road within forty rods of the survey as filed in the county clerk's office.

The officers of any county in this state issuing bonds shall register in a book kept for that purpose (1) the notice of election, the manner and time of publication, the question submitted, and the adoption of the proposition pursuant to which such bonds were issued and (2) the date, the amount, the number, the maturity, and the place of payment of such bonds, the rate of interest thereon, and the time when and place where such interest is payable. They shall, at the time such bonds are issued, make out and transmit to the county clerk a certified statement of such registry, which shall be attested by the county clerk under his or her official seal. The county clerk, upon the receipt of such statement, shall, in a book kept for that purpose, make an accurate record of the same.

At such times as the Auditor of Public Accounts may request, the county clerk shall make out, certify, and transmit to the auditor a full and complete statement of the bonded indebtedness of every description of such county at the date of such statement, particularly setting forth the nature of such bonds and the purpose for which the same were issued. The county clerk shall receive the same compensation for services rendered under this section and section 10-106 as is allowed by law for a copy of like records. Such compensation shall be paid by the county.

The county clerk shall ascertain from the assessment roll of the county the amount of taxable property in such county and the percentage required to be levied thereon to pay the interest and to create a sinking fund. The county board shall levy such percentage upon the taxable property of the county, and the county clerk shall place the same upon the tax roll of the county in a separate column or columns, designating the purposes for which the taxes are levied. The taxes shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner that other taxes are collected.

Upon the receipt of such money by the county treasurer, he shall, out of the same, at once proceed to pay off the interest accrued upon such registered bonds, at the place where such interest is made payable. The county treasurer shall cause the coupons for all interest thus paid to be surrendered, which coupons shall be filed with and canceled by the county clerk, and his receipt taken therefor and retained by said treasurer. The money thus collected and remaining in the hands of the county treasurer after the payment of the said interest as herein provided, except a sufficient amount to pay the accruing interest upon such bonds for the current year, shall be retained as a sinking fund for the final redemption of such bonds, and shall be invested by the county treasurer, when so ordered by the county board, (1) in redeeming the bonds of the county issuing the same, (2) in the bonds of the State of Nebraska, and (3) in the bonds of the United States; Provided, the bonds thus purchased shall in all cases be purchased at the lowest market price, after twenty days' notice by publication in at least one newspaper published and in general circulation at the capital city or town of the state; the cost of which advertising, at legal rates, shall be paid out of the sinking fund for the redemption of such bonds.

When the interest and principal, or interest only, of any registered bonds are payable in New York City, or elsewhere out of the state, payment shall be then made at the place so designated in such bond or coupon, or at the financial agency of the state for such purposes. In order that the funds may not be misapplied, the county treasurer shall procure a draft for the amount, to be transmitted by drawing his check on some bank in this state, and both check and draft shall be so endorsed as to show upon what bond or bonds the funds shall be applied; or at the request of the party holding or owning such bonds, payment may be made at the office of said treasurer.

The tax and funds so collected shall be deemed pledged and appropriated to the payment of the interest and principal of the registered bonds herein provided for, until fully satisfied, and the county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the faithful disbursement of all money so collected or received by him.

When any registered bonds mature, they shall be paid off by the county treasurer at the place where payable out of any money in his or her hands or under his or her control for that purpose, and when so paid the bonds shall be endorsed Canceled by the county treasurer on the face thereof, together with the date of payment, and filed with the county clerk, who shall enter satisfaction of such bonds. If the bonds are payable out of the state, an allowance of one-fourth of one percent shall be made to the county treasurer for the expense attendant in making such payment, to be deducted from any money in his or her hands remaining after payment of such matured bonds.

The county treasurer and county clerk shall, when ordered by the county board, publish a detailed statement of the business transacted by them under the provisions of sections 10-101 to 10-125.

The clerk of any village or city of the second class in which any bonds are issued shall furnish a duly certified transcript to the holder of any bond of any such village or city on demand of such holder, except that if the records of such proceedings have been destroyed by fire or other public calamity, a certified statement of the clerk of all proceedings had prior to the issuance of such bonds shall, when approved by resolution of the city council or village board, have the same force and effect as such certified transcript would have had.

The county board shall, at the usual time of levying taxes in each year, levy a tax upon all the property of the proper precinct, sufficient to pay the annual interest on the bonds and the principal thereof, in accordance with the terms of the proposition under which the bonds were issued. Taxes so levied shall be collected by the county treasurer as other taxes are collected, and the proceeds of the levy shall be retained by the county treasurer and used for the payment of interest on the bonds and the principal thereof as the same become due to the holder thereof, except that in cities having a population of more than fifty thousand inhabitants as determined by the most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified count by the United States Bureau of the Census, the money so collected shall be forwarded to or retained in the treasury of the city for the payment of bonds and interest for which the money was collected.

When the county board of any county issues bonds to refund the bonded indebtedness of any precinct in the State of Nebraska, and in case an exchange of said refunding bonds cannot be effected, the county board is hereby authorized to sell said refunding bonds from time to time, in such sums as may be necessary to create a fund for the redemption of the outstanding bonds aforesaid and pay interest on such bonds to the date of redemption. The money realized from the sale of said refunding bonds shall not be expended or used for any other purpose than for refunding said outstanding bonds and interest on the bonds.

Precinct, township, or school district boards or officers shall file for record with the county clerk the question submitted, the notice and proof of publication, and the return of votes for and against all bonds issued by such precinct, township, or school district.

It shall be the duty of the county clerk, in a book prepared for that purpose, to record the question submitted, the notice and proof of publication, the return of votes for and against; and the fee for so doing, to be paid by the precinct, township, or school district board or officers, as the case may be, shall be the same as charged for the recording of deeds and mortgages.

(1) All bonds of indebtedness, issued after September 7, 1947, by any county, precinct, city, village, school district, drainage district, or irrigation district or any other municipal corporation or governmental subdivision of the state shall be redeemable at the option of the governmental subdivision or municipal corporation issuing such bonds at any time on or after five years from the date of issuance, except that this provision shall not apply to (a) bonds of public power districts, public power and irrigation districts, metropolitan utilities districts, cities of the metropolitan and primary classes, and housing authorities of any city or village, (b) issues of revenue bonds exceeding one million dollars of cities of the first and second classes and of villages, (c) issues of bonds exceeding ten million dollars of any school district of one thousand or more students in membership as provided in the fall school district membership report pursuant to subsection (4) of section 79-528 immediately preceding the issuance of bonds, or (d) bonds issued by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska or the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges. Bonds of a district created under Chapter 31 or 39 shall in addition, after annexation of the district by any municipality, be redeemable at the option of the annexing municipality at any time after annexation of such district if at the time of redemption at least five years have elapsed from date of issuance. Such condition shall be plainly set forth in all bonds of any governmental subdivision of the state or municipal corporation hereafter issued to which it applies.

(2) The issuer, except districts organized under Chapter 31 or 39, of any such bonds of indebtedness, when the total amount of bonds at par value authorized as a single issue is five hundred thousand dollars or more, may agree to pay a call premium of not to exceed four percent of the par value for the redemption of such bonds. Districts organized under Chapter 31 or 39 may agree to pay a call premium of not to exceed two percent of the par value of such bonds when a single issue is five hundred thousand dollars or more, and bonds of such districts shall have no other bond redemption call or prepayment restrictions except as provided in this section. Bonds listed in subdivisions (1)(a) through (1)(d) of this section may contain such provisions with respect to their redemption as the public power district, public power and irrigation district, metropolitan utilities district, city, village, housing authority, school district, Board of Regents, or Board of Trustees shall provide.

(3) All bonds issued which do not provide a special procedure for calling and prepayments shall be called by a resolution passed by the governing body of the obligor, which resolution shall designate the bond or bonds to be prepaid by stating the date of the bonds, the purpose for which the bonds were issued, the bond numbers of the bonds so called, and the date set for prepayment. The issuer of any bonds which are required by this section to be issued subject to an option of redemption shall, at least thirty days prior to the date set for prepayment of such bonds, send notice by mail of the call to each holder of the called bonds as shown in its records. A true copy of the resolution shall be filed by the obligor with the paying agent on or before the call date.

(4) If the obligor deposits sufficient funds with the paying agent to pay the called bonds and accrued interest to date of call in full on or before the call date, the bonds shall cease to be a liability of the obligor, otherwise the call shall be revoked, and the bonds continue in effect the same as though no call had been made.

The State Highway Commission, any county, city, village, municipal county, school district, drainage district, irrigation district, public power district, public power and irrigation district, metropolitan utilities district, the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges, community colleges, sanitary and improvement districts, rural water districts, airport authorities, hospital authorities, or any other municipal corporation or governmental subdivision of the state which has the power to issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness may issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of like date, tenor, amount, and maturity to replace mutilated, destroyed, stolen, or lost bonds or other evidences of indebtedness previously issued and having attached thereto the same corresponding unmatured coupons, if any, as were attached to the mutilated, destroyed, stolen, or lost bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. Issuance of replacement bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of like date, tenor, amount, and maturity may be made (1) in exchange and in substitution for such mutilated bond or other evidence of indebtedness and attached unmatured coupons, if any, upon surrender of such mutilated bond or other evidence of indebtedness and attached unmatured coupons, if any, or (2) in lieu of and in substitution for the destroyed, stolen, or lost bond or other evidence of indebtedness and attached unmatured coupons. In the event such bond or other evidence of indebtedness and attached unmatured coupons, if any, have been destroyed, stolen, or lost, the holder thereof shall first file with the issuer evidence satisfactory to it that such bond or other evidence of indebtedness and attached unmatured coupons have been destroyed, stolen, or lost and of such holder's ownership thereof and shall in any event furnish the issuer with indemnity satisfactory to it and shall comply with any statutory requirements and with such other requirements as the issuer may require. A charge, not exceeding the actual cost thereof, shall be imposed upon such owner to reimburse the issuer for the expenses for issuing each such new bond or evidence of indebtedness, which cost shall be paid before the delivery of the new bond or evidence of indebtedness. Instead of issuing a substituted bond or evidence of indebtedness or instead of delivery of any coupon for a bond or evidence of indebtedness, as the case may be, which has matured or which is about to mature and instead of issuing a substituted bond or other evidence of indebtedness for a bond or other evidence of indebtedness which has been called for redemption, the issuer, upon receiving evidence and being indemnified as provided in this section, at its option may pay the bond or other evidence of indebtedness or such coupon from any source lawfully available therefor without the surrender thereof.

Each replacement bond or other evidence of indebtedness shall be authorized by a resolution of the governing body of the issuer and shall be executed by the then appropriate officers thereof.

Upon the issuance of any replacement bond or other evidence of indebtedness the issuer shall notify the paying agent with respect thereto and such paying agent shall not make payment of any portion of the principal or interest of any such mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost bond or other evidence of indebtedness which has been replaced and shall promptly notify the issuer of such bond or other evidence of indebtedness if and when any such bond or other evidence of indebtedness so replaced is ever presented for payment.

When any of the issuing bodies described in section 10-127 issues bonds or other evidences of indebtedness after April 30, 1971, such body may cause to be printed a sufficient number of blank bonds or other evidences of indebtedness as it shall deem necessary to provide for future requirements with respect to the issuance of replacement bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of the statutes of the State of Nebraska with respect to the issuance of bonds, interest coupons, and other evidence of indebtedness by any county, city, village, municipal county, school district, public power district, public power and irrigation district, airport authority, sanitary and improvement district, or any other municipal corporation or political subdivision, if any bond or other evidence of indebtedness is signed by more than one officer of such issuer, one of the signatures shall be manually affixed thereto and the other signatures may be facsimile signatures of such officers, and with respect to any interest coupons appertaining to any bond or evidence of indebtedness, the signatures on such interest coupon may be facsimile signatures.

If any public officer, county clerk, city clerk, or secretary of any governing body is required to affix the seal of his or her office to any such bond or evidence of indebtedness, the seal may be a facsimile of such seal printed on the bond or evidence of indebtedness.

Any county, city, village, municipal county, school district, public power district, public power and irrigation district, airport authority, sanitary and improvement district, or any other municipal corporation or political subdivision is hereby authorized to pay fiscal and consultant fees incurred with respect to issuance and sale of any bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness out of the proceeds from the sale of such bonds or any other funds available to the issuer, and such payment shall not constitute or be considered as a discount with respect to the sale price of the bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness.

As used in sections 10-134 to 10-141, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) Bond shall mean any bonds, notes, interim certificates, evidences of bond ownership, bond anticipation notes, warrants, or other evidence of indebtedness;

(2) Bond ordinance shall mean the ordinance or resolution adopted by the governing body of an issuer authorizing an issue of bonds and shall include any indenture or similar instrument executed by the issuer in connection with a bond issue;

(3) Fully registered bond shall mean a bond, without interest coupons, as to which the principal and interest are payable to the person shown on the records of the registrar as the owner of the bond as of each interest or principal record payment date designated by the issue in the bond ordinance;

(4) Governing body shall mean the council, board, or other legislative body having charge of the governance of the issuer;

(5) Issuer shall mean any county, city, village, school district, sanitary and improvement district, fire protection district, public corporation, or any other governmental body or political subdivision of the State of Nebraska; and

(6) Paying agent or registrar shall mean: (a) The treasurer or finance officer of the issuer; (b) any national or state bank having trust powers or any trust company; (c) any municipal securities dealer registered under Section 15B of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except that such a dealer may act as a paying agent or registrar only with respect to warrants or an issue of bonds maturing within five years from the date of issuance; or (d) the county treasurer of the county in which the issuer is located if such treasurer shall agree to perform such duty. The paying agent and registrar for a bond issue may be, but are not required to be, the same person or entity.

Any issuer, otherwise authorized to issue bonds, is hereby authorized to issue such bonds as fully registered bonds pursuant to sections 10-134 to 10-141. Fully registered bonds shall be issued on such terms as the authorizing laws shall permit, except as otherwise specifically provided in sections 10-134 to 10-141, and in cases of conflict, the terms of sections 10-134 to 10-141 shall govern. Fully registered bonds shall bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denominations, be in such form and contain such provisions for registration, reissue, and transfer, be executed in such manner, be payable at such place and by any such paying agent, and be sold in such manner and for such prices as the governing body of the issuer shall determine. Fully registered bonds may be executed with the facsimile signature of the officers of the issuer designated to execute such bonds and need not be manually executed by any officers of the issuers, except that each bond shall be authenticated as to its validity in the manner designated by the governing body of the issuer in the bond ordinance. Fully registered bonds may bear the facsimile seal of the issuer printed on the bond.

For each issue of fully registered bonds, the issuer shall designate a registrar and one or more paying agents. The registrar shall have such duties with respect to maintaining records as to ownership of fully registered bonds and handling transfers of ownership as the governing body shall determine and the registrar shall accept. To carry out transfers of ownership of bonds, the registrar may be authorized to issue replacement bonds to replace previously issued bonds or to issue other evidence of ownership of bonds, and all replacement bonds or ownership documents shall be on the same terms as the bonds initially issued by the issuer for which the replacement bonds or other ownership documents are issued. No issuer shall be responsible for payment on any bonds of any issue in excess of (1) the principal amount of the bonds of such issue plus interest on the principal, (2) any applicable redemption premium, and (3) any fees and expenses of the registrar and paying agents which the issuer has agreed to pay. An issuer may designate in the bond ordinance a record payment date for payment of interest and the record payment date may be prior to the due date for interest on any bond. Any issuer may authorize and provide for ownership of fully registered bonds to be in book-entry form with ownership being evidenced only on the books of the registrar or in such other manner as the issuer shall provide in the bond ordinance.

Any issuer, except a sanitary and improvement district, which is authorized to issue warrants to pay costs of any water, sanitary, or storm sewer or other utility improvement or any street improvement, pending permanent financing by issuance of bonds, is hereby authorized to provide temporary financing for costs of such improvements by issuance of bond anticipation notes in lieu of issuing warrants. Such notes may be issued in the amount of the estimated cost of the improvements to be financed, including interest to accrue on such notes, as such estimated costs shall be determined by the governing body. Such notes shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds which the issuer is otherwise authorized to issue for such improvements and from any other funds available for the purpose. Bond anticipation notes may be issued on such terms and conditions and sold in such manner and at such prices as the governing body of the issuer shall determine. An issuer which has issued and has outstanding bond anticipation notes pursuant to this section may issue refunding notes with which to call and redeem all or any part of the outstanding notes at or before maturity or the redemption day of the notes. Such refunding notes may be issued in an amount sufficient to pay any redemption premium and interest to accrue and become payable on the notes being refunded to the date of payment of such notes. The refunding notes may be issued on such terms and conditions and sold in such manner and at such prices as the governing body of the issuer shall determine and shall be payable from the same sources as would have been available for payment of the notes being refunded.

Any issuer, except a sanitary and improvement district, which has issued outstanding warrants may issue refunding warrants with which to pay and redeem all or any part of the outstanding warrants, including interest to accrue and become payable on the warrants being refunded. Such refunding warrants may be issued on such terms and conditions and sold at such prices as the governing body of the issuer shall determine. Refunding warrants shall be payable from the same sources as would have been available for payment of the warrants being refunded.

Any county treasurer or other officer holding any funds of an issuer shall transfer to the issuer or to a paying agent all or such portion of such funds as the governing body or treasurer of the issuer shall request. The county treasurer or officer making payment to the issuer or to a paying agent as requested shall have no further responsibility for the funds so transferred. Upon request, one payment shall be for the funds collected or received during the previous calendar month and shall be paid not later than the fifteenth of the following month. A second demand may be made prior to the fifteenth of the month on taxes and special assessments collected or received, during the first fifteen days of the month. The second demand shall be paid not later than the last day of the month.

Within sixty days after the initial issuance and delivery of all fully registered bonds, the issuer shall maintain a record of the issuance including (1) the following information: (a) The name of the issuer; (b) the title or designation of the bonds; (c) the total principal amount of such bonds initially issued; (d) the date or dates of maturity of principal and the amount of principal maturing on such date or dates; (e) the interest rate or rates and the date or dates such interest is payable; (f) the place or places where the principal of and interest on the bonds are payable; (g) the costs of issuance paid and to whom; and (h) the principal purpose for which such bonds were issued and (2) a copy of the form filed for the bonds pursuant to section 149(e) of the Internal Revenue Code. Within sixty days after the initial issuance and delivery of all fully registered bonds, the issuer shall also file a record of the information required by this section with the Auditor of Public Accounts who shall maintain such information for public inspection.

The records of ownership of fully registered bonds maintained by a registrar shall not be deemed to be public records and shall be available for inspection solely pursuant to a court order or a subpoena of any governmental agency having jurisdiction to issue such subpoena or in accordance with the bond ordinance governing the fully registered bonds.

Any county, city, village, municipal county, school district, drainage district, irrigation district, metropolitan utilities district, rural water district, airport authority, or hospital authority, the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, the Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges, the governing board of any community college, or any other municipal or public corporation, governmental subdivision, or body politic or corporate created under Nebraska law exercising essential public functions of the state which has issued or shall issue bonds for any purpose, and such bonds or any part of such bonds remain unpaid and are a legal liability against such issuer and are bearing interest, is hereby authorized to issue refunding bonds with which to call and redeem all or any part of such outstanding bonds at or before the maturity or the redemption date of such bonds. Such issuer may include various series and issues of the outstanding bonds in a single issue of refunding bonds and issue refunding bonds to pay any redemption premium and interest to accrue and become payable on the outstanding bonds being refunded. The refunding bonds may be issued and delivered at any time prior to the date of maturity or the redemption date of the bonds to be refunded that the governing body of such issuer determines to be in its best interests. The proceeds derived from the sale of the refunding bonds issued pursuant to this section may be invested in obligations of or guaranteed by the United States Government pending the time the proceeds are required for the purposes for which such refunding bonds were issued. To further secure the refunding bonds, any such issuer may enter into a contract with any bank or trust company within or without the state with respect to the safekeeping and application of the proceeds of the refunding bonds and the safekeeping and application of the earnings on the investment. All bonds issued under the provisions of this section shall be redeemable at such times and under such conditions as the governing body of the issuer shall determine at the time of issuance.

Any outstanding bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued by any such issuer for which sufficient funds or obligations of or guaranteed by the United States Government have been pledged and set aside in safekeeping to be applied for the complete payment of such bonds or other evidence of indebtedness at maturity or upon redemption prior to maturity, interest thereon, and redemption premium, if any, shall not be considered as outstanding and unpaid.

Each new refunding bond so issued shall state on the bond (1) the object of its issue, (2) this section or sections of the law under which such issue was made, including a statement that the issue is made in pursuance of such section or sections, and (3) the date and principal amount of the bond or bonds for which the refunding bonds are being issued.

Sections 10-134 to 10-142 shall be deemed to provide an additional alternative and complete method for doing of the things authorized in such sections and shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental and additional to powers conferred by any other laws or home rule charters and shall not be regarded to be in degradation of any powers existing on March 10, 1983, except that insofar as provisions of sections 10-134 to 10-142 are inconsistent with any other law or home rule charter, the provisions of sections 10-134 to 10-142 shall be controlling.

Bonds issued after May 8, 2001, by any agency or political subdivision of the state shall not be registered in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts.

Any political subdivision may, at the discretion of the governing body of the subdivision, sell bonds which the political subdivision is authorized to issue under any provision of law using an Internet auction system. The governing body shall comply with all other statutory requirements for the issuance of the bonds.

Except as otherwise expressly specified by statute or the ordinance, resolution, or instrument authorizing the issuance of any bond or interest coupon mentioned in this section, whenever a bond or an interest coupon appertaining thereto issued by a county, city, village, school district, irrigation district, or other municipal or public corporation or political subdivision of the State of Nebraska is presented for payment to the county treasurer, city treasurer, or other person or corporation designated as the paying agent and there is not sufficient money to pay the same in the fund out of which such bond or coupon is payable, the county treasurer, city treasurer, or other person or corporation designated by law as the paying agent shall register such bond or coupon in a book kept by him or her for that purpose. No such bond or coupon shall be presented or registered prior to its maturity date. Each such bond or coupon so registered shall be registered in order of its presentation for payment, and in the event that several of such bonds or coupons are presented for payment simultaneously, such bonds or coupons shall be registered in accordance with the numbers assigned to such bonds at the time of their issue or in accordance with the numbers assigned to the bonds to which such coupons appertain at the time of their issue. Thereafter money coming into such fund shall be applied to payment of such bonds or interest coupons, as the case may be, in the order of their registration. The county treasurer, city treasurer, or other person or corporation designated by law as the paying agent shall keep a record of such registrations showing the time, date, and serial number of each registration, the name of the county, city, village, irrigation district, or other municipal or public corporation or political subdivision of the state or the corporate name of the school district as described in section 79-405 issuing such bond or coupon, the date, kind, and serial number of such registered bond and of the bond to which each registered coupon appertains, the maturity date, the principal amount of the bond or coupon so registered, and the name and address of the person presenting such bond or coupon for payment. On the back of each of such bonds or coupons, the county treasurer, city treasurer, or other person or corporation designated by law as the paying agent shall enter the word Registered with the time, date, and serial number of such registration and return such bond or coupon to the person who has so presented the same for payment. All such bonds and coupons shall contain a provision fixing the rate of interest they shall bear after due if the paying agent does not have sufficient money to pay such bonds or coupons on the due date thereof, but if any such bonds or coupons shall not contain such provision, such bonds or coupons shall bear interest at the rate of nine percent per annum from due date until the paying agent has funds to pay such bonds or coupons and interest thereon.

Any county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district is hereby authorized and required to compromise its indebtedness in the manner hereinafter provided.

Whenever the county board of any county, the city council of any city, the board of trustees of any village, or the school board of any school district, shall be satisfied by petition or otherwise, that any such county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district, is unable to pay in full its indebtedness, and one-third of the resident freeholders of such county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district shall by petition ask that such county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district compromise such indebtedness, it is hereby required to enter into negotiations with the owner or owners, holder or holders of any such indebtedness, of whatever form, for scaling, discounting or compromising the same.

Whenever satisfactory arrangements are made with the owner or owners, holder or holders, or any of them, of such indebtedness, for the payment of the same, the county board, for and on behalf of any such county, precinct, township or town, or the city council of any such city, or the board of trustees of any such village, or the school board of any such school district, upon petition of two-thirds of the resident freeholder of such county, precinct, township or town, village or school district shall have the authority, and it is hereby required to issue the coupon bonds of such county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district, and after registration to deliver the same to the owner or owners, holder or holders of such indebtedness, in satisfaction of the same, not exceeding the amount of the original indebtedness; Provided, the amount of bonds issued under sections 10-301 to 10-305 shall not exceed the total amount of bonded indebtedness which any such county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district may be empowered to issue by law; provided further, sections 10-301 to 10-305 shall not be construed to permit the issuance under any form or authority whatever of a greater bonded indebtedness than is specifically authorized by law; provided further, that said sections shall not be used as a subterfuge or for any purpose for the payment of any claims for which the county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district is authorized to issue bonds by virtue of any other specific act, nor to satisfy any claim or debt which has been wrongfully or illegally authorized.

Before issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 10-301 to 10-303, the board issuing the same shall by resolution entered upon its records recite the number and denomination of the bonds to be issued, the rate of interest, and to whom and when payable. Such bonds shall be payable in not more than twenty years from the date of their issue, or at any time on or after five years from the date of issuance thereof, at the option of the board issuing the same. They shall bear interest payable annually or semiannually, as provided in said bonds. Said board shall levy a tax on all the taxable property in such county, precinct, township or town, city, village or school district in addition to other taxes, to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall mature.

Every board issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 10-301 to 10-304 shall keep a complete record of all transactions connected therewith.

Any county or city in the State of Nebraska is hereby authorized to issue bonds to aid in the construction of any railroad or other work of internal improvement in an amount to be determined by the county board of such county or the city council of such city not exceeding three and five-tenths percent of the taxable valuation of all taxable property in the county or city. The county board or city council shall first submit the question of the issuing of such bonds to a vote of the legal voters of the county or city in the manner provided by law for submitting to the people of a county the question of borrowing money.

The proposition of the question must be accompanied by a provision to levy a tax annually for the payment of the interest on the bonds. An additional amount shall be levied and collected to pay the principal of such bonds.

The proposition shall state the rate of interest such bond shall draw.

Upon a majority of the votes cast being in favor of the proposition submitted, the county board, in the case of a county, and the city council, in the case of a city, shall cause the proposition and the result of the vote to be entered upon the records of said county or city, and a notice of its adoption to be published for two successive weeks in any newspaper in said county or city, if there be one, and if not, then without such publication; and shall thereupon issue said bonds, which shall be and continue a subsisting debt against such county or city until they are paid and discharged; Provided, that the question of bond issues in such county or city, when defeated, shall not be resubmitted in substance for a period of six months from and after the date of said election.

It shall be the duty of the proper officers of such county or city to cause to be annually levied, collected, and paid to the holders of such bonds a special tax on all taxable property within the county or city sufficient to pay the annual interest and principal of the bonds. Not more than twenty percent of the principal of such bonds shall be collected in any one year.

Any precinct, township, city of the second class, or village organized according to law is hereby authorized to issue bonds in aid of the construction of steam railroads, or railroads using electricity or gasoline as motive power, of standard gauge, to an extent not exceeding three and five-tenths percent of the taxable value of the taxable property at the last assessment within such precinct, township, city of the second class, or village, in the manner provided in this section:

(1) A petition for such purpose signed by not less than fifty freeholders or by not less than ten percent of all the freeholders, whichever number is the least, of the precinct, township, city of the second class, or village shall be presented to the county board, city council of cities of the second class, board of trustees of villages, or the board authorized by law to conduct the business of such precinct, township, city of the second class, or village. Such petition shall set forth the nature of the work contemplated, the amount of bonds sought to be voted, the rate of interest, and the length of time the bonds will run, which in no event shall be less than five years nor more than twenty years from the date thereof. The petitioners shall give bond, to be approved by the county board, city council of cities of the second class, or board of trustees of villages, for the payment of expenses of the election in the event that the proposition fails to receive a majority of the votes cast at such election;

(2) Upon receiving such petition, the county board, city council of cities of the second class, or board of trustees of villages shall give notice and call an election in the precinct, township, city of the second class, or village, as the case may be. The notice, call, and election shall be governed by the laws regulating the election for voting bonds for a county; and

(3) Upon a majority of the votes cast being in favor of the proposition submitted, the county board, city council of cities of the second class, or board of trustees of villages, as the case may be, shall issue the bonds in accordance with the petition and notice of election. Such bonds shall be signed by the chairperson of the county board and attested by the county clerk in the case of precinct or township bonds, by the mayor and city clerk in the case of city bonds, and by the chairperson of the board of trustees and village clerk in case of village bonds and shall be attested by their respective seals. Such bonds shall be a subsisting debt against such precinct, township, city of the second class, or village until they are paid and discharged.

The mayor and council of cities of the second class shall have the power to borrow money and pledge the property and credit of such city upon its negotiable bonds in an amount not to exceed one and eight-tenths percent of the taxable valuation of the taxable property within the limits of such city for the purpose of aiding in the building, erecting, constructing, or repairing and furnishing of a county courthouse, in addition to bonds already voted by the county, if authority for the issuance of such bonds has first been obtained by a majority vote of the qualified electors of such city voting on a proposition for such purpose at any general or special election. Such proposition shall be submitted to such electors in the manner provided by law for the submission of propositions to aid in the construction of railroads and other internal improvements. Such bonds shall be sold for not less than par and shall run not to exceed twenty years. The proposition to submit the issue of creating bonded indebtedness therein shall not be resubmitted on the same subject at an election within six months after such proposition has failed to pass.

The election at which any such proposition shall be voted upon shall in all respects be conducted and the returns shall be canvassed and declared in the manner now provided by law for such purposes at general elections held in such cities.

Any precinct, township, city of the second class, or village organized according to law is hereby authorized to issue bonds in aid of works of internal improvements, such as improving streets in cities of the second class and villages, highways, bridges, jails, city and town halls, high schools, county high schools, school dormitories, and the drainage of swamp and wet lands, within such municipal divisions, and for the construction or purchase of a telephone system for use of the inhabitants thereof, in an amount not exceeding seven-tenths of one percent of the taxable valuation of all the taxable property as shown by the last assessment within such precinct, township, city of the second class, or village, in the manner directed in this section:

(1) A petition signed by not less than fifty freeholders of the precinct, township, city of the second class, or village shall be presented to the county board, city council of cities of the second class, board of trustees of villages, or the board authorized by law to conduct the business of such precinct, township, city of the second class, or village. Such petition shall set forth the nature of the work contemplated, the amount of bonds sought to be voted, the rate of interest, and the length of time the bonds will run, which in no event shall be less than two years nor more than twenty years from the date thereof. The petitioners shall give bond, to be approved by the county board, city council of cities of the second class, or board of trustees of villages, for the payment of the expenses of the election in the event that the proposition fails to receive a majority of the votes cast at such election; and

(2) Upon the receipt of such petition, the county board, city council of cities of the second class, or board of trustees of villages shall give notice and call an election in the precinct, township, city of the second class, or village, as the case may be. Such notice, call, and election shall be governed by the laws regulating an election for voting bonds for a county. When a proposition is submitted for the issuance of bonds for the acquisition of a site or the construction of a single building to be used as a city hall, auditorium, fire station, or community house in cities of the second class, it shall be required, as a condition precedent to the issuance of such bonds, that a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of such proposition. Bonds in such a city shall not be issued for such purpose in the aggregate to exceed one and four-tenths percent of the taxable valuation of all the taxable property in such city as shown by the last assessment within such city. The mayor and council in cities of the second class upon the issuance of bonds shall have the power to levy a tax each year not to exceed three and five-tenths cents on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of all the taxable property in such city for the purpose of maintaining the city hall constructed as provided in this section.

If a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of the proposition, the county board, city council of cities of the second class, or board of trustees of villages shall, as the case may be, without delay, cause to be prepared and shall issue the bonds in accordance with the petition and notice of election. The bonds shall be signed by the chairperson of the county board, or the person authorized to sign county bonds, and be attested by the county clerk, mayor and city clerk of cities of the second class, chairperson of the board of trustees and village clerk of villages, and be attested by the respective seals. The county clerk, village clerk of villages, or city clerk of cities of the second class, as the case may be, shall enter upon the records of the board or council, the petition, bond, notice and call for the election, canvass of the vote, the number, amount, and interest, and the date at which each bond issued shall become payable.

The county boards, city councils of cities of the second class, or boards of trustees of villages or the person charged with levying the taxes, shall each year until the bonds issued under the authority of section 10-409 be paid, levy upon the taxable property in the precinct, township, city of the second class or village, a tax sufficient to pay the interest and five percent of the principal as a sinking fund; and at the tax levy preceding the maturity of any such bonds, levy an amount sufficient to pay the principal and interest due on said bonds.

The county board of any county in the State of Nebraska is hereby empowered to issue coupon bonds of any denomination, as it deems best, sufficient to pay the outstanding and unpaid bonds, warrants, and indebtedness of such county. The county board of any county may limit the provisions of sections 10-501 to 10-509 to any fund or funds of the county. No bonds shall be issued to a greater amount than three and five-tenths percent of the taxable valuation of such county, and the county board shall first submit the question of issuing bonds to a vote of the qualified electors of such county.

Any bonds hereafter issued under the provisions of sections 10-501 to 10-509 shall be for the payment by the county issuing the same of the sum specified therein, made payable at the office of the county treasurer, and to run not more than twenty years nor less than five years, with interest payable semiannually; the bonds and coupons shall be signed by the chairman of the board, and countersigned by the county clerk of the county; Provided, such bonds may be made redeemable at any time after five years, at the option of the county board.

It shall be the duty of the county board of any county issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 10-501 to 10-509 to ascertain the highest price at which said bonds can be negotiated and to embrace in the proposition submitted to the qualified electors under said sections the minimum price at which said bonds shall be sold. If by the issuance of the proposed bonds, the rate of interest on the said indebtedness will be reduced, and the amount of the indebtedness will not be increased, a majority of the votes cast shall be sufficient to adopt the proposition.

It shall be the duty of the board issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 10-501 to 10-509 to negotiate said bonds, and all the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be paid into the county treasury of said county, and shall be applied solely to the redemption and payment of the unpaid bonds, warrants and indebtedness of said county; Provided, the county board of any county may exchange such bonds at not less than their par value, for the outstanding indebtedness of such county; Provided further, no bonds shall be issued, for the purpose of such exchange, for a less sum than fifty dollars.

Whenever bonds subject to sections 10-501 to 10-509 are sold and the proceeds paid into the county treasury, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to immediately notify the holders of all bonds, warrants, orders, certificates, or audited accounts intended to be redeemed and paid under the provisions of sections 10-501 to 10-509; and the holders of such bonds, warrants, orders, certificates, or audited accounts, dated prior to the issuing of such bonds, shall present the same for payment, and the county treasurer shall pay the same out of the funds so provided, and the county treasurer shall forthwith cancel such bonds, warrants, orders, certificates, or audited accounts so presented and paid, by writing across the face of each of them with red ink, plainly and legibly, the following words (properly filling the blank): "Canceled from bonds and warrants, bond funds this .......... day of .......... 20.... .

Signed ....................., county treasurer. Signed ......................., holder."

The treasurer of said county shall record in a book kept for that purpose a statement of all the bonds issued, giving the number, amount, date, and to whom issued; and shall also keep and record in said book a statement of all the bonds, warrants, orders, certificates and audited accounts so taken, giving their number, date, amount of principal and interest, if any, to whom issued, by whom presented for redemption, and as often as he may be called upon by the said board so to do, he shall present a statement thereof, and of all his doings in the premises, to the said county board.

The county board of any county issuing bonds under sections 10-501 to 10-509 shall levy a tax annually for the payment of the interest on the bonds. An additional amount shall be levied and collected sufficient to pay the principal of such bonds at maturity. Not more than twenty percent of the principal of such bonds shall be levied and collected in any one year.

The county board is hereby directed to adopt such rules and regulations governing all officers and other persons in the payment, redemption, cancellation and destruction of such warrants, orders, certificates and audited accounts as it deems necessary and sufficient to protect the interests of the county in furtherance of the provisions of sections 10-501 to 10-509.

If any person or officer, contrary to the provisions of sections 10-501 to 10-509, shall knowingly issue or deliver, or put in circulation, use, or in any manner dispose of, contrary to law, any warrant, order, certificate or audited account, intended to be redeemed or paid under the provisions of said sections, either before or after the same has been paid or canceled, and thereby defraud, or attempt to defraud, any corporation, county, state or person, he shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.

Any city of the second class and any village in the State of Nebraska may issue bonds for the purpose of funding any and all indebtedness now existing or hereafter created, now due or to become due; Provided, said bonds shall be payable in not less than two years and not more than twenty years from date of their issue, and that said bonds shall bear interest at a rate set by the governing body, with interest coupons attached, payable annually or semiannually; and may levy a tax on all the taxable property in the city or village in addition to other taxes for the payment of said coupons as they respectively become due, and the taxes levied to pay the same shall be payable only in cash or coupons; Provided, the city council of said cities or said board of trustees of said villages shall further authorize the issuing of said bonds by ordinance when so instructed by a majority of all of the votes cast at an election held in such city or village for that purpose; notice of said election shall be published in four issues of some legal newspaper, published in the city or village seeking to issue bonds, or if there be no newspaper published in said city or village then by posting said notices in five conspicuous places in said city or village for at least four weeks prior to the date of said election.

Any city of the second class in the State of Nebraska which has heretofore voted and issued bonds to aid in the construction of any railroad or other work of internal improvement and which bonds or any part thereof still remain unpaid and are a legal liability against such city, and have been finally so determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, and bearing interest at ten percent per annum, is hereby authorized to issue coupon bonds at a rate of interest set by the governing body, to be substituted in place of and exchanged for such bonds heretofore issued, whenever such city can effect such substitution and exchange, which substitution and exchange shall not exceed dollar for dollar; Provided, such substitution and exchange shall have first been duly authorized by a majority vote of the people of said city at an election to be held for the purpose as provided in section 10-606.

The bonds issued under the provisions of section 10-607 shall have recited therein the object of their issue, and the section of the law under which the issue is made, stating the issue to be in pursuance thereof, and shall also state the number, date and amount of the bond or bonds for which it was substituted, and such new bond shall not be delivered until the surrender of the bond or bonds so designated.

Whenever it shall be determined by the final judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction, that any bonds purporting to have been issued by the county board of any county not under township organization for or on behalf of any precinct or de facto precinct within said county, for a lawful debt of said county payable by a tax levy upon the property in the said precinct or de facto precinct, said county board is hereby authorized to issue special precinct refunding bonds for the purpose of paying said indebtedness.

The said funding bonds shall be in such denominations as the board shall elect, shall mature not later than twenty years from their date, and may be payable at an earlier date if the county board so decides, shall bear interest which in rate and amount per annum shall not be greater than that of the bonds originally issued, payable annually or semiannually, shall bear coupons for the amount of the annual interest, shall contain a recital of the indebtedness for which they were issued, and shall have the same remedies for the enforcement as the original debt which they are intended to refund.

The said bonds shall be payable to bearer and may be delivered either to the holders and owners of the judgments for the payment of which they are issued, or may be sold under the direction of the county board and delivered to the purchasers and the proceeds used to pay the judgments; but the said funding bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value.

For the purpose of meeting the indebtedness evidenced by the said funding bonds the county board shall cause to be annually levied upon all the real and personal property within the precinct or within the limits of the former or de facto precinct against which the said bonds have been adjudged to be a liability, a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest upon the said funding bonds, and not less than five percent of the principal, for the purpose of creating a sinking fund to pay the principal at maturity, and at the tax levy preceding the maturity of such bonds shall levy an amount sufficient to pay the principal and the remaining interest due on said bonds.

Any sanitary and improvement district, any road improvement district, and any fire protection district in the State of Nebraska which has issued or which will issue bonds for any purpose, and such bonds or any part of such bonds are unpaid, are a legal liability against such district, and are bearing interest, may issue refunding bonds with which to call and redeem all or any part of such outstanding bonds at or before the maturity or the redemption date of such bonds, may include various series and issues of the outstanding bonds in a single issue of refunding bonds, and may issue refunding bonds to pay any redemption premium and interest to accrue and become payable on the outstanding bonds being refunded or refunding bonds issued. The refunding bonds may be issued and delivered at any time prior to the date of maturity or the redemption date of the bonds to be refunded that the governing body or the administrator determines to be in the best interest of any such district. The proceeds derived from the sale of the refunding bonds issued pursuant to this section may be invested in obligations of or guaranteed by the United States Government pending the time the proceeds are required for the purpose for which such refunding bonds were issued. To further secure the refunding bonds, any such district may enter into a contract with any bank or trust company, within or without the state, with respect to the safekeeping and application of the proceeds of the refunding bonds and the safekeeping and application of the earnings on the investment of such proceeds. Any outstanding bonds, which shall have been called for redemption and which have sufficient funds or obligations of or guaranteed by the United States Government set aside in safekeeping to be applied for the complete payment of such bonds, interest on such bonds, and redemption premium, if any, on the redemption date, shall not be considered as outstanding and unpaid, and such bonds shall be fully secured by and be payable from such funds or obligations so deposited. Each new refunding bond so issued shall state on the bond (1) the object of its issue, (2) this section of the law under which such issue was made, including a statement that the issue is made pursuant to such section, and (3) the date and principal amount of the bond or bonds for which the refunding bonds are being issued.

Any city or village which has annexed all or part of any sanitary and improvement district, any road improvement district, or any fire protection district and has become legally liable for the bonds or warrants of the district or any part thereof shall also be authorized to exercise the powers set forth in section 10-615 with respect to such bonds or to issue refunding bonds upon such terms as the governing body shall deem appropriate to call and redeem such warrants at or before maturity.

Sections 10-615 and 10-616 shall be deemed to provide an additional, alternative, and complete method for doing the things authorized in such sections, shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental and additional to the powers conferred by any other laws, and shall not be regarded to be in degradation of any powers existing on April 7, 1987, except that insofar as sections 10-615 and 10-616 are inconsistent with any other law or home rule charter, such sections shall be controlling.

The district officers of any school district in Nebraska shall have power, on the terms and conditions set forth in sections 10-702 to 10-716, to issue the bonds of the district for the purpose of (1) purchasing a site for and erecting thereon a schoolhouse or schoolhouses or a teacherage or teacherages, or for such purchase or erection, or purchasing an existing building or buildings for use as a schoolhouse or schoolhouses, including the site or sites upon which such building or buildings are located, and furnishing the same, in such district, (2) retiring registered warrants, and (3) paying for additions to or repairs for a schoolhouse or schoolhouses or a teacherage or teacherages.

The question of issuing school district bonds may be submitted at a special election or such question may be voted on at an election held in conjunction with the statewide primary or statewide general election. No bonds shall be issued until the question has been submitted to the qualified electors of the district and a majority of all the qualified electors voting on the question have voted in favor of issuing the same, at an election called for the purpose, upon notice given by the officers of the district at least twenty days prior to such election. If the election for issuing bonds is held as a special election, the procedures provided in section 10-703.01 shall be followed. The question of bond issues in such districts, when defeated, shall not, except in case of fire or other disaster or in the case of a newly created district, be resubmitted in substance for a period of six months from and after the date of such election.

When the question of issuing bonds is to be submitted at a statewide primary or statewide general election as ordered by a resolution of a majority of the members of the board of education, such order shall be made in writing and filed with the county clerk or election commissioner by March 1 for the statewide primary election or September 1 for the statewide general election. The order calling for the school bond election shall be filed with the county clerk or election commissioner in the county having the greatest number of electors entitled to vote on the question. The county clerk or election commissioner receiving such order shall conduct the school bond election for the school district as provided in the Election Act.

A special notice of the election shall be published by the board of education in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation within the district stating the day of the election, the hours during which the polls will be open, and any other information deemed necessary in informing the public of the bond issue. The notice shall be made at least twenty days prior to the election.

If the question of submitting bonds for the school district is voted upon in one or more counties and the ballots have been certified across county lines, the election boards in the counties where the ballots are cast shall count the ballots on election day the same as all other ballots are counted and seal the same in their ballots-cast container along with other ballots.

The canvassing boards in each county shall canvass the returns in the same manner as other returns are canvassed.

The county clerk or election commissioner in any adjoining county voting on the bond issue shall certify the returns to the county clerk or election commissioner of the county having the greatest number of electors entitled to vote on the question of issuing bonds.

The county clerk or election commissioner in such county shall enter the total returns from any adjoining county or counties to the total votes recorded in his or her official book of votes cast and shall certify the returns to the board of education for which such bond election was held.

A vote shall be ordered upon the issuance of such bonds, either (1) upon resolution of a majority of the members of the school board or board of education, or (2) whenever a petition shall be presented to the district board suggesting that a vote be taken for or against the issuing of such amount of bonds as may therein be asked for (a) to purchase a site for or build a schoolhouse or schoolhouses or a teacherage or teacherages, or to purchase an existing building or buildings for use as a schoolhouse or schoolhouses, including the site or sites upon which such building or buildings are located, (b) for furnishing the necessary furniture and apparatus for the same, (c) for retiring registered warrants, (d) for paying for additions to or repairs for a schoolhouse or schoolhouses or a teacherage or teacherages, or (e) for all of these purposes, which petition shall be signed by at least ten percent of the qualified voters of such district.

In all special elections called for voting on the question of issuing bonds of the school district, the county clerk or election commissioner or, if the school district lies in more than one county, the county clerk or election commissioner in the county having the greatest number of electors entitled to vote on the question shall designate the polling places and appoint the election officials, who need not be the regular election officials, and otherwise conduct the election as provided under the Election Act except as otherwise specifically provided in this section. Any special election held under this section shall be subject to section 32-405. The school district shall designate the form of ballot and reimburse the county clerk or election official for the expenses of conducting the election as provided in sections 32-1201 to 32-1208 and at the minimum rate as described in subdivision (2)(d) of section 32-1203. The school district officers shall give notice of the election at least twenty days prior to the election and cause the sample ballot to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district one time not more than ten days nor less than three days prior to the election, and no notice of the election shall be required to be given by the county clerk or election commissioner. The notice of election shall state where ballots for early voting may be obtained.

The ballots shall be counted by the county clerk or election commissioner conducting the election and two disinterested persons appointed by him or her. When the polls are closed, the receiving board shall deliver the ballots to the county clerk or election commissioner conducting the election who, with the two disinterested persons appointed by him or her, shall proceed to count the ballots.

Ballots for early voting shall be furnished to the county clerk or election commissioner and ready for distribution by the county clerk or election commissioner conducting the election not less than fifteen days prior to the election.

When a school district lies in more than one county, the county clerk or election commissioner in any other county containing part of such school district shall, upon request, certify its registration books for those precincts in which the school district is located to the county clerk or election commissioner conducting the election and shall immediately forward all requests for ballots for early voting to the county clerk or election commissioner charged with the issuing of such ballots. Not less than five days prior to the election, the school district officers shall certify to the county clerk or election commissioner conducting the election a list of all registered voters of the school district in any other county or counties qualified to vote on the bond issue.

All ballots cast at the election shall be counted by the same board. When all the ballots have been counted, the returns of such election shall be turned over to the school board or board of education of the district in which the election was held for the purpose of making a canvass thereof.

The two disinterested persons appointed on the counting board shall receive wages at no less than the minimum rate set in section 48-1203 for each hour of service rendered.

The bonds issued under sections 10-701 to 10-716 shall draw such interest as shall be agreed upon.

It shall be the duty of the proper officers of any school district in which any bonds may be voted under the authority of any law of this state, before the issuance of such bonds, to make a written statement of all proceedings relative to the vote upon the issuance of such bonds and the notice of the election, the manner and time of giving notice, the question submitted, and the result of the canvass of the vote on the proposition pursuant to which it is proposed to issue such bonds, together with a full statement of the taxable valuation, the number of children of school age residing in the district, and the total bonded indebtedness of the school district voting such bonds. Such statement shall be certified to under oath by the proper school board of the district.

It shall be the duty of the county board in each county to levy annually upon all the taxable property in each school district in such county a tax sufficient to pay the interest that will accrue or is accruing upon any bonds that have been or will be issued by such school district and to provide a sinking fund for the final redemption of the same. Such levy shall be made with the annual levy of the county and the taxes collected with other taxes and when collected shall be paid over to the county treasurer of the county in which the administrative office of such school district is located and shall remain in the hands of such county treasurer as a specific fund for the payment of the interest upon such bonds and for the final payment of the same at maturity. At the request of the school board of any district, the county board shall omit making a levy to pay the principal of the bonds when no bonds will be due within fifteen years thereafter.

The phrase school district, as used in section 10-711, is hereby declared to mean the school district as it existed immediately prior to and at the time of the issuance of any bonds by said school district, including all lands, property and inhabitants contained in said school district at the time of the issuance of any bonds, and all portions of said district subsequently separated from said district, whether by the formation of a new district or by any change of boundaries of the original district.

Any money in the hands of any treasurer as a sinking fund for the redemption of bonds which are a valid and legal obligation of the school district to which such money belongs or for the payment of interest on any such bonds, and which is not currently required to retire bonds and pay interest on bonds, shall be invested by the treasurer, when so ordered by the school board or board of education, (1) in bonds, treasury bills or notes of the United States, or (2) in interest-bearing time certificates of deposit in depositories approved and authorized to receive county money, but in no greater amount in any such depository than the same is authorized to receive deposits of county funds. The interest earned on such investments shall be credited to the sinking fund from which the invested funds were drawn.

When the interest and principal, or interest only, of such registered bonds are payable in New York City, or elsewhere out of the state, payment shall be therein made at the place so designated in such bond or coupon, or at the commercial agency of the state for such purposes. In order that the funds may not be misapplied, the treasurer shall procure a draft for the amount to be transmitted by drawing his check on some bank in this state, and both check and draft shall be so endorsed as to show upon what bond or bonds the funds shall be applied; or, at the request of the party holding or owning said bonds, payment may be made at the office of said treasurer.

The tax and funds so collected shall be deemed pledged and appropriated to the payment of the interest and principal of the registered bonds herein provided for, until fully satisfied, and the treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the faithful disbursement of all money so collected or received by him. After the principal and interest of such bonds shall have been fully paid, and all obligations for which such fund and taxes were raised have been discharged, the county clerk, upon the order of the county board, shall notify the county treasurer to transfer all such funds remaining in his hands to the credit of the district to which they belong.

When any registered bonds shall mature, the same shall be paid off by the treasurer at the place where the same shall be payable out of any money in his hands or under his control for that purpose, and when so paid the same shall be endorsed by the treasurer on the face thereof Canceled, together with the date of such payment; and thereupon be filed with the clerk, who shall enter satisfaction of such bonds upon the records of such school district. In case such bonds are payable out of the state, an allowance of one-fourth of one percent shall be made to the treasurer for the expense attendant in making such payment, to be deducted from any money in his hands remaining after payment of such matured bonds.

Any school district in the State of Nebraska which has heretofore voted and issued, or which shall hereafter vote and issue, bonds to build or furnish a schoolhouse, or for any other purpose, and which bonds, or any part thereof, still remain unpaid, and remain and are a legal liability against such district and are bearing interest, is hereby authorized to issue refunding bonds with which to call and redeem all or any part of such outstanding bonds at or before the maturity or the redemption date thereof, and may include various series and issues of the outstanding bonds in a single issue of refunding bonds, and issue refunding bonds to pay any redemption premium and interest to accrue and become payable on the outstanding bonds being refunded. The refunding bonds may be issued and delivered at any time prior to the date of maturity or the redemption date of the bonds to be refunded that the school district determines to be in the best interest of the district. The proceeds derived from the sale of refunding bonds issued pursuant to this section may be invested in obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States Government pending the time the proceeds are required for the purposes for which such refunding bonds were issued. To further secure the refunding bonds, the school district may enter into a contract with any bank or trust company, within or without the state, with respect to the safekeeping and application of the proceeds of the refunding bonds and the safekeeping and application of the earnings on the investment. Any outstanding bonds, which shall have been called for redemption and which have sufficient funds or obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States Government set aside in safekeeping to be applied for the complete payment of such bonds, interest thereon, and redemption premium, if any on the redemption date, shall not be considered as outstanding and unpaid bonds. All bonds issued under the provisions of sections 10-717 to 10-719 must, on their face, contain a clause that the district issuing such bonds shall have the right to redeem such bonds at the expiration of five years from the date of the issuance thereof.

Each new refunding bond so issued shall state therein (1) the object of its issue, (2) the section or sections of the law under which the issue thereof was made, including a statement that the issue is made in pursuance thereof, and (3) the date and principal amount of the bond or bonds for which the refunding bonds are being issued.

The new bonds as issued shall not require a vote of the people to authorize such issue, and they shall be paid, and the levy be made and tax collected for their payment, in accordance with laws governing the said bonds heretofore issued.

The county board of any county of this state shall have authority to issue the bonds of such county in an amount not to exceed one and eight-tenths percent of the taxable valuation of the county and not to exceed one million dollars for the purpose of raising money to be advanced or loaned by such county to destitute and needy sufferers from cyclone, tornado, or destructive windstorm in such county. No such bonds shall be issued until the question of the issuing of the same has been submitted to the electors of the county at a general or special election as provided by sections 10-801 to 10-807.

If the people of any county in the State of Nebraska, or a considerable number thereof, shall be in destitute, dependent, or needy circumstances on account of any cyclone, tornado or destructive windstorm, the county board of such county may call an election, and said board and the county clerk of such county shall give notice of such election by publication in two consecutive issues of one or more newspapers published and of general circulation in such county, and by posting a notice at the polling places in each election precinct therein. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of issuing said bonds, the county board shall issue the bonds of the county payable in not more than ten years, with interest payable semiannually. The county shall reserve to itself the privilege of paying off all or any part of said bonds, at any time on or after five years, by inserting a provision to that effect in the proposition submitting said bonds, and in the bonds when issued.

The proceeds of such bonds shall be used for the purpose of assisting destitute or needy sufferers from any cyclone, tornado or destructive windstorm, to repair or rebuild their homes or dwelling houses, damaged or destroyed by such cyclone, tornado or windstorm, such assistance to be provided in the following manner: The county may loan or advance to any such destitute or needy sufferer, for the purpose of repairing or rebuilding his or her dwelling house, such sum as may be determined upon by the county board or by the board named by the county board for that purpose, upon the borrower executing his or her note to the county, secured by a mortgage upon the premises upon which such dwelling house or home is or is to be located. The county may at any time transfer or assign such note and mortgage for a valuable consideration, upon approval by the county board. Such note and mortgage may be executed for a period of not more than ten years. The loans of such money shall be made by a board of five resident freeholders of such county, who shall be appointed by the county board thereof, and shall be named in the proposition submitting such bonds to the vote of the electors of the county. The county board shall provide the details for effecting the loans, and the manner in which and the conditions under which the same shall be made; but all such provisions shall be determined upon by the county board prior to the submission of such bonds, and shall be set forth in the proposition submitting the same to the vote of the electors. The county board may use or set aside not more than five percent of the proceeds of the sale of such bonds for the purpose of paying the expenses of the board provided for, and its employees, in administering and carrying out the provisions of sections 10-801 to 10-807.

The proposition, when submitted, shall state the amount necessary to be raised each year for the payment of the interest on the bonds and for the payment of the principal thereof at maturity. When such bonds shall have been issued or authorized to be issued, the proper officers of such county shall cause to be annually levied and collected a special tax upon all taxable property of such county to raise the annual amount designated in the proposition and to pay the interest and principal of such bonds.

The proposition, when submitted to the electors, shall provide for a sinking fund, to which shall be credited the proceeds of loans sold by or repaid to the county; and such fund, when available, shall be used to pay the interest on said bonds and the principal thereof at maturity; Provided, however, any part of the sinking fund may be reloaned for the purposes specified in sections 10-801 to 10-807, when authorized by the county board.

Any county which shall have issued its bonds pursuant to sections 10-801 to 10-807 shall be estopped from pleading want of consideration therefor, and the proper officers of such county may be compelled by mandamus, or otherwise, to levy the tax herein authorized.

Any person who shall make any false statement to the county board or to the board provided for in sections 10-801 to 10-807, or to any of its assistants or employees, for the purpose of obtaining a loan or aid of any kind, as a sufferer from cyclone, tornado or destructive windstorm, shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor.

To permit the orderly continuation of the issuance of private activity bonds pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, the Governor may by executive order:

(1) Allocate or establish a method for the allocation of the private activity bond state ceiling set forth in the Internal Revenue Code among any or all entities in the State of Nebraska having the authority to issue private activity bonds or governmental bonds; and

(2) Delegate any administrative authority vested in him or her under this section to any state agency or any instrumentality which exercises essential public functions.

Sections 10-1101 to 10-1106 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Governmental Unit Security Interest Act.

The creation of security interests and pledges by governmental units is controlled by other provisions of law. The Nebraska Governmental Unit Security Interest Act governs the perfection, priority, and enforcement of all security interests created by governmental units.

For purposes of the Nebraska Governmental Unit Security Interest Act:

(1) Authorizing statute means any statute which authorizes the issuance of bonds;

(2) Bond means any bond, note, warrant, loan agreement, lease, lease-purchase agreement, pledge agreement, agreement authorized by the governing body of a generating power agency pursuant to section 70-682, or other evidence of indebtedness for which a security interest is granted or a pledge made upon revenue or other property, including any limited tax revenue, to provide for payment or security;

(3) Governmental unit means the State of Nebraska, any county, school district, city, village, public power district, sanitary and improvement district, educational service unit, community college area, natural resources district, airport authority, fire protection district, hospital authority, joint entity created under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, joint public agency, instrumentality, or any other district, authority, or political subdivision of the State of Nebraska and governmental units as defined in subdivision (a)(45) of section 9-102, Uniform Commercial Code;

(4) Measure means any ordinance, resolution, or other enactment authorizing the issuance of bonds or authorizing an indenture with respect to bonds pursuant to an authorizing statute; and

(5) Owner means any holder, registered owner, or beneficial owner of a bond.

Any security interest created by a governmental unit pursuant to an authorizing statute is perfected by the adoption of the measure or measures from the date on which the measure takes effect without the need for any physical delivery, filing, or recording in any office.

The priority of any security interest created by a governmental unit shall be governed by the contractual terms set forth in the measure or measures, including the terms of any indenture or any other agreement approved by the measure or measures, adopted by the governmental unit. No security interest having priority over an existing security interest may be created in violation of the terms of an existing measure governing outstanding bonds.

The terms of any applicable authorizing statute shall govern the enforcement of any security interest to the extent that the authorizing statute contains express provisions relating to enforcement or authorizes a governmental unit to contract with respect to enforcement. In the absence of any such express provisions in an authorizing statute, the following provisions apply:

(1) Any measure may include provisions determining what events constitute events of default. In the absence of any express provision relating to default in any measure, the governmental unit is in default so long as any default in payment with respect to principal, interest, or premium on a bond has occurred and remains uncured;

(2) Any trustee designated in or under the terms of a measure shall have the right, if a default has occurred, to have a receiver appointed for the collection of any revenue or property in which a security interest is granted, and if the revenue is from any revenue-producing undertaking, any such receiver may also be appointed to operate and manage such revenue-producing undertaking for the benefit of the owners of the bonds in accordance with the terms of the measure or measures authorizing their issuance;

(3) If there is no trustee designated in or under the terms of a measure, any owner of a bond shall have the right, if a default has occurred, to have a receiver appointed for the collection of any revenue or property in which a security interest is granted and, if the revenue is from any revenue-producing undertaking, any such receiver may also be appointed to operate and manage such revenue-producing undertaking for the benefit of the owners of the bonds in accordance with the terms of the measure or measures authorizing their issuance;

(4) Any trustee designated in or under the terms of any measure or any owner of a bond, if there is no trustee designated, shall have the right to bring proceedings against the governing body of the governmental unit to order the imposing of rates or charges with respect to any revenue-producing undertaking sufficient to provide for payment of principal, interest, and premium on a bond or bonds as the same fall due; and

(5) Any trustee designated in or under the terms of any measure or any owner of a bond shall have the right to exercise any other remedy provided by law.

Sections 10-1201 to 10-1206 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Governmental Unit Credit Facility Act.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there currently exist and may hereafter exist conditions which make it difficult for governmental units to issue and sell their bonds or other evidences of indebtedness and to obtain credit at reasonable interest rates and that the United States Government has authorized certain of its agencies and instrumentalities to provide credit support for state and local governmental units under more favorable terms.

For purposes of the Nebraska Governmental Unit Credit Facility Act:

(1) Authorizing statute means any statute which authorizes the issuance of bonds by a governmental unit;

(2) Bank means any federally chartered or state-chartered bank, savings and loan association, building and loan association, insurance company, or any other public or private agency which insures or guarantees the indebtedness of other persons or governmental units;

(3) Bond means any bond, note, interim certificate, evidence of bond ownership, bond anticipation note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness issued under any authorizing statute;

(4) Credit facility means any agreement or other instrument providing for a guarantee or other contractual arrangement providing direct or indirect assurance for payment of principal or interest or both principal and interest on any bond issued by a governmental unit, including, but not limited to, any letter of credit, contract of guarantee, contract of insurance, standby purchase contract, or any other contract for purchase or other agreement as to assurance of payment;

(5) Governmental unit means any county, school district, city, village, public power district, public power and irrigation district, sanitary and improvement district, educational service unit, community college area, natural resources district, airport authority, fire protection district, hospital district, hospital authority, housing authority, joint entity created under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, joint public agency created under the Joint Public Agency Act, instrumentality, or any other district, authority, or political subdivision of the State of Nebraska;

(6) Measure means any ordinance, resolution, or other enactment by a governmental unit, or any amendment or supplement to any such ordinance, resolution, or other enactment authorizing the issuance of bonds or authorizing an indenture with respect to bonds pursuant to an authorizing statute;

(7) Terms and conditions means the terms and conditions of a credit facility, which may include, but are not limited to, (a) representations and warranties; (b) payment of fees and expenses; (c) reimbursement of amounts advanced and payment of interest on amounts advanced; (d) holding harmless for additional taxes or increased costs payable by the credit facility provider; (e) remarketing or resale of purchased bonds; (f) indemnification for liabilities incurred by a credit facility provider; (g) affirmative and negative covenants relating to bonds for which assurance is provided; (h) provisions relating to defaults and remedies upon default; and (i) such other provisions as may be determined by the governing body of a governmental unit to be either customary or appropriate in obtaining a credit facility; and

(8) United States governmental enterprise means any agency or instrumentality of the United States Government. For all purposes of the Nebraska Governmental Unit Credit Facility Act, the term United States governmental enterprise shall be conclusively construed as including, but not limited to, any of the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

Any governmental unit in the State of Nebraska may obtain credit support for its bonds by entering into or obtaining a credit facility for any of its bonds from any United States governmental enterprise or from any bank providing a credit facility which is confirmed or otherwise supported by a credit facility provided by a United States governmental enterprise. Any credit facility shall be approved by a measure adopted before or after issuance of any bonds. Each credit facility shall have such terms and conditions as shall be approved by a measure adopted by the governmental unit before or after the issuance of bonds.

Any credit facility or related agreement may provide for payment of amounts owing by the governmental unit from any resources of the governmental unit as may be deemed appropriate by the governing body, including taxes and other revenue. Any amounts required to reimburse the provider of a credit facility for amounts advanced for payment of principal and interest or for purchase of a bond or for related fees and expenses shall have the same status under sections 13-520 and 77-3442 as the indebtedness for which the credit facility has been provided. Such indebtedness includes, without limitation, the payments of principal and interest for which the advance or purchase was made or the fees and expenses incurred.

The Nebraska Governmental Unit Credit Facility Act shall be independent of and in addition to any other provision of law of the State of Nebraska or provisions of home rule charters, and any credit facility may be obtained under the act for any purpose authorized in the act even though other laws of the State of Nebraska or provisions of home rule charters may provide for the obtaining of a credit facility for the same or similar purposes. The act shall not be considered amendatory of or limited by any other law of the State of Nebraska or provisions of home rule charters, and any credit facility may be obtained under the act without complying with the restrictions or requirements of any other law of the State of Nebraska, except when specifically required by the act, or without complying with the restrictions or requirements of home rule charters. Nothing in the act shall prohibit or limit the obtaining of any credit facility in accordance with other applicable laws of the State of Nebraska or of home rule charters, if the governing body of a governmental unit determines to obtain such credit facility under such other laws or charter or otherwise limit the provisions of any home rule charter.