A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF PAOLA, KANSAS FROM SECTION 79-1952 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SUPPLEMENT OF 1961, AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AUTHORIZED AND LIMITING TAX LEVIES IN ANY ONE YEAR ON EACH DOLLAR OF ASSESSED TANGIBLE VALUATION AND PRESCRIBING AN AGGREGATE FOR ALL CITY WIDE TAX LEVIES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF PAOLA, KANSAS:
Section 1. The
City of Paola, Kansas, a City of the second class by the power vested in it by
Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects
to exempt and exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it, Section 79-1952
of the General Statutes Supplement of 1961 which is not applicable uniformly to
all cities of the second class and the legislature not having established
classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitations and prohibitions
and provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. The
Governing Body of the City of Paola, Kansas is hereby authorized and empowered
to levy taxes in each year for the following city purposes, but said Governing
Body shall not fix a rate of levy in any one (1) year on each dollar of
assessed tangible valuation of the city in excess of the following rates:
General operating
fund (which shall include the following activities):
General government;
police department; fire department; health and sanitation, including refuse
collection and disposal; highways (all public travelled ways including
bridges); sewer maintenance; sewage treatment and disposal; parks, Armory, cemeteries;
street lighting; rest room; airport; forestry; military memorial maintenance;
civil defense, and band; 20 mills.
Provided that any
revenue derived from the motor vehicle and motor fuel taxes shall be budgeted
to the credit of the highway department of said general operating fund and
shall be used exclusively for the purpose for which received, provided that the
aggregate of all city-wide tax levies of such city, except levies for the
payment of bonds and interests thereon, and levies for the control and
eradication of noxious weeds, and levies authorized by other statutes to be
outside the aggregate are hereby limited to twenty (20) mills on each dollar of
assessed tangible valuation of such city.
(05-28-1963; Repealed by C.O. No. 20)