Each county may purchase, construct, maintain, and improve garbage disposal plants, systems or solid waste disposal areas, and purchase equipment for the operation thereof, for the use of its inhabitants and incorporated municipalities located in such county, and may lease or take land in fee by donation, gift, devise, purchase or appropriation for rights-of-way, for the construction and operation of such a disposal plant, system or solid waste disposal areas. Each county may also make and enter into a contract or contracts with any person, firm, or corporation for the construction, maintenance, or operation of a garbage disposal plant, system or solid waste disposal area.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 23-379
Garbage disposal plants; systems or solid waste disposal areas; purchase, construct, maintain
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Anderson v. Peterson (1985)
Most recently applied in Johnson v. Village of Polk (July 2025)
Laws 1967, c. 112, § 1, p. 360; Laws 1969, c. 163, § 1, p. 737; Laws 1979, LB 22, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nebraska Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nebraska statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.