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Council adopts ordinance codifying administrative-exhaustion rules for rate challenges
Summary
The Lincoln City Council adopted Ordinance 1087b to codify a state law requiring challengers to utility rates to raise all objections during the 45-day notice period, limiting later court challenges to the administrative record.
The Lincoln City Council on a unanimous vote adopted Ordinance 1087b, adding Lincoln Municipal Code section 19.90.05 to codify state law on exhaustion of administrative remedies for challenges to fees, charges and assessments.
City staff described the ordinance as a local implementation of a statute passed by the state legislature late last year that clarifies how residents must raise objections to proposed utility-rate structures during the Proposition 218 process. “This is nothing more than the codification in our municipal code of a bill that was passed by…
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