{"data":{"id":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-24-503","jurisdiction":"us-ne","citation":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-503","heading":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-503","body":"For the purpose of serving the county courts in each county, twelve county judge districts are hereby created:\n\nDistrict No. 1 shall contain the counties of Saline, Jefferson, Gage, Thayer, Johnson, Pawnee, Nemaha, and Richardson;\n\nDistrict No. 2 shall contain the counties of Sarpy, Cass, and Otoe;\n\nDistrict No. 3 shall contain the county of Lancaster;\n\nDistrict No. 4 shall contain the county of Douglas;\n\nDistrict No. 5 shall contain the counties of Merrick, Platte, Colfax, Boone, Nance, Hamilton, Polk, York, Butler, Seward, and Saunders;\n\nDistrict No. 6 shall contain the counties of Dixon, Dakota, Cedar, Burt, Thurston, Dodge, and Washington;\n\nDistrict No. 7 shall contain the counties of Knox, Cuming, Antelope, Pierce, Wayne, Madison, and Stanton;\n\nDistrict No. 8 shall contain the counties of Cherry, Keya Paha, Brown, Rock, Blaine, Loup, Custer, Boyd, Holt, Garfield, Wheeler, Valley, Greeley, Sherman, and Howard;\n\nDistrict No. 9 shall contain the counties of Buffalo and Hall;\n\nDistrict No. 10 shall contain the counties of Fillmore, Adams, Clay, Phelps, Kearney, Harlan, Franklin, Webster, and Nuckolls;\n\nDistrict No. 11 shall contain the counties of Hooker, Thomas, Arthur, McPherson, Logan, Keith, Perkins, Lincoln, Dawson, Chase, Hayes, Frontier, Gosper, Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow, and Furnas; and\n\nDistrict No. 12 shall contain the counties of Sioux, Dawes, Box Butte, Sheridan, Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Garden, Banner, Kimball, Cheyenne, Grant, and Deuel.\n\nDistrict 4 shall have twelve county judges. District 3 shall have seven county judges. Districts 5, 9, 11, and 12 shall have five county judges. Districts 2 and 6 shall have four county judges. Districts 1, 7, 8, and 10 shall have three county judges.\n\nJudge of the county court shall include any person appointed to the office of county judge or municipal judge prior to July 1, 1985, pursuant to Article V, section 21, of the Constitution of Nebraska.\n\nAny person serving as a municipal judge in district 3 or 4 immediately prior to July 1, 1985, shall be a judge of the county court and shall be empowered to hear only those cases as provided in section 24-517 which the presiding judge of the county court for such district, with the concurrence of the Supreme Court, shall direct.","path":["NE Code","Chapter 24"],"source_url":"https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=24-503","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:21Z","sha256":"87a39ad95596338d3863b1e2e43775f3ae5ca8cc00c220d21f4b76435f8aae27","source_id":"us-ne","stale":false,"prev":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-24-502","next":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-24-505.01"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}