Municipal Home Rule, a Progress Report?

I. The Home Rule Concept … A. Cause and Effect … B. Advantages of Home Rule … C. Nebraska’s Constitutional Provisions … D. The Application of Home Rule … E. Home Rule and the Courts—Generally II. Selected Aspects of the Municipal Legislative Process … A. The Exercise of Certain Quasi-Sovereign Powers … 1. Eminent Domain … 2. Power to Tax and Assess … 3.

Regulation of Surface Transportation Systems … 4. Regulation of Liquor Traffic and Gambling … B. Municipal Services to Citizens … 1. The Public Safety Function … 2. The Educational Function … 3.

Health and Sanitation … 4. Streets and Parking Lots III. Conclusions