§ 15-258 — Billiard halls; disorderly houses; prohibition; exceptions

Nebraska § 15-258

• Jurisdiction: Nebraska
• Ch. 15: Cities of the Primary Class

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A city of the primary class may restrain, prohibit, and suppress unlicensed billiard tables, bowling alleys, houses of prostitution, opium and illicit drug dens, and other disorderly houses and practices, games, and gambling houses, may prohibit all public amusements, shows, or exhibitions, and may prohibit all lotteries, all fraudulent devices and practices for the purposes of obtaining money or property, all shooting galleries except as provided in the Nebraska Shooting Range Protection Act, and all kinds of public indecencies, except that nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to bingo, lotteries, lotteries by the sale of pickle cards, or raffles conducted in accordance with the Nebraska Bingo Act, the Nebraska Lottery and Raffle Act, the Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act, the Nebraska Small Lottery and Raffle Act, or the State Lottery Act.

Legislative History

Source: Laws 1901, c. 16, § 129, LVIII, p. 142; R.S.1913, § 4468; C.S.1922, § 3853; C.S.1929, § 15-256; R.S.1943, § 15-258; Laws 1986, LB 1027, § 187; Laws 1991, LB 849, § 60; Laws 1993, LB 138, § 62; Laws 2009, LB503, § 12; Laws 2020, LB1003, § 69. Cross References: Nebraska Bingo Act, see section 9-201. Nebraska Lottery and Raffle Act, see section 9-401. Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act, see section 9-301. Nebraska Shooting Range Protection Act, see section 37-1301. Nebraska Small Lottery and Raffle Act, see section 9-501. State Lottery Act, see section 9-801. Annotations: Ordinance prohibiting all business except of necessity on Sunday is not void as discriminatory. Liberman v. State, 26 Neb. 464, 42 N.W. 419 (1889).