Rural mailbox requirements advanced

A bill updating mailbox location requirements along highways was advanced to select file March 24.

LB757, introduced by Papillion Sen. Jim Smith, would relax the requirement that a mailbox must be placed 1 foot outside the shoulder line of a highway. The bill also would remove the requirement that the state Department of Roads regulate Nebraska’s diminishing wayside, or picnic, areas. Finally, the bill would repeal an outdated county roads numbering system in favor of the more modern E-911 road numbering system.

Smith said the bill is needed to remove dated and obsolete language from Nebraska statutes. The highway mailbox location requirements, for example, are more than 50 years old, he said.

Senators advanced the bill on a 32-0 vote.