09 Levy Taxes i CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 9
(First Publishe~ in The Salina Journal ~x~ ~Z~1974.)
A CHARTER ORDIN~NCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF SALINA, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 79-1951,
WHICH PROVIDES FOR A MAXIFOM RATE OF LEVY IN ANY ONE YEAR; PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND
ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON tHE SAME SUBJECT; AMENDING CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 3 OF THE CITY
OF SALINA, KANSAS, AND REPEALING SAID EXISTING CHARTER ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That Charter Ordinance No. 3 of the City of Salina, Kansas, is hereby
amended to read as follow~:
(1). That the City of Salina, a city of the first class, by the
power vest~d in it by Article 12, Chapter 5 of the Constitution of
the State Df Kansas, hereby elects to exempt and does exempt itself
from and m~kes inapplicable to it K.S.A. 79-1951, which is not ,
applicable uniformly to all cities and to provide substitute and
additional provisions of the same aubject.
(2). That the governing body of the City of Salina is hereby
authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year on each dollar
of assessed tangible valuation of said city and to set such rate of
levy as may be needed to meet the requirements of its adopted budget
for the following purposes:
G~neral Operating Fund, which shall include the
following activities: General government, police
depart~nent; fire department; health and sanitation;
waste disposal; streets, alleys and highways; maintenance
of public buildings; swimming pool; parks; animal control;
-- street lighting; traffic signals and parking control;
civil defense; airport; judgements; band; cemetery;
genera[ improvement (except ~mpNo~N~ments for which special
assessnmnts are made); industrial fund; noxious weeds,
tree m~intenance; and flood control.
Provided thi~t the City purposes specifically authorized by other
statutes are not excluded because they are not above enumerated;
and provide~ further that the aggregate of all city wide tax levies
of said cit~ is not limited, except as provided by legislative
enactments ~niformly applicable to all cities.
Section 2. Charter Ordinance No. 3 of the City of Salina, Kansas is hereby
repealed. I
Section 3. This ~rdinance shall be published once a week for two (2)
~onsecutive weeks in The S~lina Journal, the official
city
newspaper.
Section 4. This ~s a Charter Ordinance and shall take effect sixty-one (61)
days after final publicaticn, unless a sufficient petition for a referendum is filed
and a referendum held on tie ordinance as provided in Article 12, Section 5, Subdivision
(c) of the Constitution of Kansas in which case the ordinance shall become effective
if approved by the majority of the electors voting thereon.
Adopted by the g~verning body by not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the members
elect voting in favor ther~of and approved by the Mayor this 18±h day of March ,1974.
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%ttest:
"'D, L...-llai:rison, ¢±ty Clerk
The foregoingi Charter Ordinance Number 9 was passed on the 18th day of March, 1974,
as shown by the Journal~i of Proceedings, Number 25, Page 98, by a vote of five for and zero
against, being not lesslthan two-thirds of the members-elect of the Governing Body,
published in the SalinaiJournal, the official city newspaper on the 22nd day of March, 1974,
and on the 29th day of ~arch, 1974, being once a week for two consecutive weeks, and there
being no petition demanding a referendum filed with the City Clerk within sixty days after
the final publication, !aid Charter Ordinance took effect on the 29th day of May, 1974.
D. L. Harrison, City Clerk