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(05-28-1963; Repealed by C.O. No. 20)