Search the Craig Court Docket

Searching the Craig Court Docket

Start with the Nebraska JUSTICE One-Time Court Case Search. Pick Burt County Court for a Craig traffic, ordinance, or misdemeanor case. Choose Burt District Court when the court number points to district jurisdiction. The case stage can point there too. The one-time service charges $17 per search. It returns up to 30 matching cases. Case-detail access stays open for three calendar days, with a published 24-hour lag in updates. Remember, this is a court-level docket search, not a village lookup.

1. Keep the ordinance section, citation, notice, or existing court case number.
2. Search Burt County Court for the normal Craig ordinance and traffic route.
3. Read the case detail and Register of Actions for the filed court events, setting, and disposition fields.
4. For a new or uncertain matter, allow the published lag and check the correct court level.
5. Use County Court or District Court, rather than the village office, for court date, warrant, and certified-record questions.

Note: A Craig ordinance source can explain a local rule. A filed proceeding lives only in the court case record.

Craig Ordinance 208 Is Not a Docket

Craig's official ordinance index links to local ordinance PDFs. Among them is Ordinance 208, which covers motor-vehicle, bicycle, and traffic rules plus penalties. The document names a rule or a category of conduct. That is where it stops. It cannot report a person's charge, court date, plea, payment balance, warrant status, or final outcome. Those fields belong to the court record. They appear only after a matter is filed there.

The official ordinance page linked above is the local source for Craig traffic-rule research.

Craig Ordinance 208 supplies local traffic-law context. County Court keeps the docket once an action is prosecuted.

Craig Municipal Court Basics

Craig has no separate municipal court. It has no public courtroom, municipal judge, online case-search field, court calendar, or court-payment screen either. Once a Craig traffic, ordinance, or misdemeanor case is filed, the venue is Burt County Court. Burt District Court handles the next level. It covers felony-stage and district civil cases. Naming the real venues beats implying a village court exists.

County Court sits in Suite 9 at 111 North 13th Street, Tekamah. Clerk Magistrate Vicki Kuhlmann can be reached at 402-374-2950. District Court is in Suite 11, with Clerk Michele R. Quick at 402-374-2905. The court contacts decide court custody. The Craig village clerk answers village administrative questions, not court certification.

Craig Village Office Hours Are Not Court Hours

Craig lists its village-office contact as Clerk Shauna Self at 402-377-2144, with Monday through Thursday hours of 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Those hours fit ordinance copies, village agenda matters, and water or other municipal business. They are not County Court hours. Do not rely on them for a court payment deadline, a hearing time, or access to court records.

The Craig village contact page is the source of the village-office information above.

The Craig village office is a local government contact; the Burt court clerk is the court-record custodian.

Court Dates and Settings in Craig

Use the Nebraska Multi-Court Case Calendar to search settings. Enter a court type, Burt, and a date or at least two characters of a last name. Craig never appears as a calendar choice. A blank result is not proof that no court date exists, and the state calendar itself carries that warning. To confirm a Craig appearance, rely on the citation, the current Register of Actions, and the responsible clerk.

Craig Board Meetings Are Not Court Motion Days

Craig's village board meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. Agenda items are due at the village office 24 hours beforehand. That is village government, not a court hearing docket. The timing can even overlap with the District Court's recurring second-Thursday motion-day notice. That invites confusion.

A continuance, appearance, motion setting, or trial date must come from the citation, the court Register of Actions, the state calendar, or the responsible clerk. The village agenda deadline changes nothing about a Craig court setting. It also says nothing about whether a case has been filed.

Traffic Tickets in Craig

With a Craig traffic citation in hand, keep the citation number handy. Check whether it says waiver allowed. An eligible waiverable matter goes through the state Citation Payment Process. A qualifying post-decision case may use the state Internet Payment System. A nonwaiverable or contested case follows the appearance date printed on the citation. County Court is the documented venue for the traffic record.

Craig publishes no separate court payment screen. Paying does not itself prove a warrant was recalled. A lost citation, unclear case number, date question, or warrant issue goes to County Court at 402-374-2950. The village ordinance cannot replace the state payment or court confirmation process.

Craig Citation Numbers and Court Cases Differ

A citation and a court case number may be related, but they are not interchangeable. The statewide citation rule allows up to two letters and seven numerals. It permits no leading zeros. A court case ID is different, assigned only after filing or entry. Craig's Ordinance 208 can name the local traffic category. It cannot supply either court identifier.

Keep both numbers. That lets you ask the proper court about the right record, without mistaking the village ordinance index for a case database.

Where Craig Cases Go

Craig runs no court of its own. A filed Craig case enters the Burt court that holds jurisdiction. County Court is the first stop for everyday matters. That means traffic tickets, municipal ordinance violations, and misdemeanors. Anything at the district level lands in District Court. The statewide docket search and calendar both use Burt for either route.

Docket flow: Craig village ordinance or citation › Burt County Court when filed › Burt District Court for district-level matters

Village administrative records stay with the village office. A Register of Actions, judgment, order, or certified copy remains with the clerk of the court that handled the case.

Craig Older Court Records Need a Clerk Route

JUSTICE sometimes lists a case with no document image attached. Images only pair with documents filed or uploaded after April 16, 2008. An older Craig case can therefore force a courthouse terminal. That can mean a call to the court clerk. The village office cannot step in there. It cannot replace the court record or certify a state court judgment. Craig counted 202 people in the 2020 Census. That is village context, nothing more. It says nothing about filings. The countywide courthouse remains the practical record destination for a Craig docket search.

Craig Court Record Access Rules

Nebraska court rules define what public electronic access covers. The clerk keeps the court record. The village, meanwhile, holds its own ordinance and administrative material. Sealed, juvenile, and protected information may stay off limits. It might not appear remotely or in a general docket search. For a specific Craig case, match the court type and case number to the right office before you call.

Craig History Is Not a Court Building Source

Craig began as a railroad water station. Its village history survives mostly as a scrapbook. A planning reference mentions a village office housed in a 1970s building. What the village itself does not supply is a court source. There is no dedicated Craig court building, no municipal courtroom, and no municipal judge documented for the town. So any building you deal with should be treated as either the village office or the Burt County courthouse. Never treat it as a Craig court.

None of that history changes where the records live. A Craig court search still runs through Burt County Court for the typical filed traffic or ordinance case. Burt District Court handles district matters. The clerk keeps the court file that matters.

The 2020 Census put Craig's population at 202, the smallest of the five incorporated places in the county. Treat that as context alone. It says nothing about filing volume, penalty size, or some separate village judicial system of its own. The countywide court is the practical destination because it is the documented court system. A Census row cannot predict any single case.

Suppose the only document in hand is Ordinance 208. Start by pinning down the exact ordinance section involved. Then ask what the question really is. Is it about the rule itself, a village administrative matter, a citation, or a case already filed in court? The ordinance text and the village office handle local-law and administration questions. The court search, the citation, and the court clerk answer whether a prosecution exists and what the court has actually done about it.

A court date that may be close deserves real checking. The village board's second-Thursday meeting is not a proxy for a court setting. Read the citation, search County Court or District Court with Burt selected, and check the latest Register of Actions entry. If a date, case number, or warrant stays unclear, call County Court at 402-374-2950. That is the documented route for the usual Craig traffic or ordinance matter.

Older Craig court records can demand a courthouse terminal or direct clerk contact. A Register of Actions result does not guarantee an image of the document itself. The village office cannot certify a court judgment. A payment confirmation is not a current court record either. Hang onto both the court case number and the citation number. Keeping them separate makes it far easier to tell the village source, the payment system, and the court file apart. That way their distinct functions stay clear.