Title 19 - Charter Ordinances

Charter Ordinance No. Twenty-Eight (Repealed by Ch. Ord. No. Thirty-Four)

(Note: All or parts of this charter ordinance have been repealed. See notes at the end of the ordinance.)

A CHARTER ORDINANCE AMENDING EXISTING SECTION 4 OF CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. THIRTEEN AND OVERLAND PARK MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 2.03.040, DATE OF PRIMARY ELECTION; REPEALING CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. NINETEEN, WHICH AMENDS EXISTING SECTION 5 OF CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. THIRTEEN AND AMENDING AND REPEALING EXISTING OVERLAND PARK MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 2.03.050, FILING DEADLINE FOR CITY ELECTION; AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE PROVISIONS THEREFOR.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS:

SECTION 1.

Section 4 of Charter Ordinance No. Thirteen and Overland Park Municipal Code Section 2.03.040 are hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 4. Date of Primary Election.

The primary election of the City officers provided for in Section 2 hereinabove shall be on the Tuesday preceding by five (5) weeks the first Tuesday in April of every odd numbered year.

No primary election of City officers shall be held unless by holding such primary one or more persons will be eliminated as candidates for an office. In the event that there is not more than one candidate for each party nomination for any one office, the name of the candidate for such office shall not appear on the primary election ballot and there shall be no primary election for such party nomination for such office, but the name of such candidate shall be placed on the general City election ballot.

SECTION 2.

Section 5 of Charter Ordinance No. Thirteen and Section 2.03.050 of the Overland Park Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 5. Filing Deadline for City Election.

The filing deadline for all city elections shall be twelve noon of the Tuesday preceding by ten (10) weeks the first Tuesday in April of each election year.

SECTION 3. Section 4 of Charter Ordinance No. Thirteen, all of Charter Ordinance Nineteen, Overland Park Municipal Code Sections 2.03.040 and 2.03.050 are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the Overland Park Sun, an official City newspaper.

SECTION 5. This is a Charter Ordinance and shall take effect sixty (60) days after its final publication unless a sufficient petition for a referendum is filed within such sixty days and a referendum is held on the ordinance as, provided in Article 12, Section 5, Subdivision (c)(3) of the Constitution of Kansas, in which case the ordinance shall not take effect until approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon.

PASSED by the Governing Body, not less than two-thirds of the members-elect voting in favor thereof, the 25th day of July, 1983.

Ed Eilert, Mayor

ATTEST:

Bernice Crummett, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Phillip L. Harris, City Attorney

Passed: 7/25/83

Published: 7/29/83

8/5/83

Effective: 10/4/83

Entire ordinance repealed by Charter Ordinance No. Thirty-Four

Effective on: 1/1/1901