Opinion No. (1982)

REQUESTED BY: Senator Elroy M. Hefner Nebraska State Legislature State Capitol Lincoln, NE 68509

Dear Senator Hefner:

You have asked the following questions in regard to Legislative Bill 611:

1. For purposes of legal liability in the event of a lawsuit brought for damages occurring as a result of insufficient maintenance of a road maintained by a township, is a township treated like an incorporated municipality regardless of whether it is actually incorporated, or is the county responsible for the defense of the suit unless it clearly falls within the `incorporated municipality' category?

2. Who…