A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF LAKE QUIVIRA, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 79-1953 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AUTHORIZING 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.
SECTION ONE: The City of Lake Quivira, Kansas, a city of the third class by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to except and exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it, K.S.A. 79-1953 of the laws of the state of Kansas which is not uniformly applicable to all cities of the third class and the legislature not having established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitations and prohibitions, and provides substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.
SECTION TWO: The Governing Body of the City of Lake Quivira, Kansas, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year for the following city purposes, and that said Governing Body shall not fix a rate of levy in any one 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; streets and all public-traveled ways, including bridges and culverts; sewer maintenance, sewage treatment and disposal; parks; street lighting; city hall maintenance; fire hydrants; civil defense; street repair and maintenance: not to exceed 25 mills;
PROVIDED, that any revenue derived from the motor vehicle and motor fuel taxes shall be budgeted to the credit of the street 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 interest thereon, levies for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, and levies authorized by other statutes to be outside the aggregate is hereby limited to 25 mills on each dollar of assessed valuation of the city.
(11-05-1972)