Title 19 - Charter Ordinances

CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 105

A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF OVERLAND PARK FROM K.S.A. 64-101 WHICH RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND METHOD OF DESIGNATING OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPERS, AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT; AND REPEALING CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. NINETY.

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

Section 1. The City of Overland Park, Kansas, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it the provisions of K.S.A. 64-101 which relates to the qualifications and method of designating official City newspapers and hereby provides substitute and additional provisions as set forth herein. Such referenced statute, K.S.A. 64-101 is applicable to this City but is not uniformly applicable to all cities.

Section 2. No legal notices, advertisements, or publications of any kind required or provided by any of the laws of Kansas or the City of Overland Park, Kansas, to be published in a newspaper shall have any force or effect unless the same be published in an official City newspaper.

Section 3. The Governing Body shall designate by resolution a newspaper or newspapers as the official City newspaper or newspapers for publication of legal notices, advertisements, or publications of any kind which may be required or provided by the laws of the state of Kansas or the City of Overland Park, Kansas, to be published in a newspaper.

Section 4. Any newspaper designated as an official City newspaper must meet the following qualifications:

a. It shall have a general circulation on a daily or weekly basis in Johnson County,

Kansas, and shall not be a trade, religious or fraternal publication; and

b. It must be published in Johnson County, Kansas.

Section 5. Nothing in this Charter Ordinance shall invalidate the publication in any newspaper which at the time of publication had been designated as an official City newspaper.

Section 6. Charter Ordinance No. Ninety is hereby repealed.

Section 7. This Charter Ordinance shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in an official City newspaper.

Section 8. THIS IS A CHARTER ORDINANCE AND SHALL TAKE EFFECT 61 DAYS AFTER FINAL PUBLICATION UNLESS WITHIN 60 DAYS OF ITS FINAL

Section 8. THIS IS A CHARTER ORDINANCE AND SHALL TAKE EFFECT 61 DAYS AFTER FINAL PUBLICATION UNLESS WITHIN 60 DAYS OF ITS FINAL PUBLICATION A PETITION SIGNED BY A NUMBER OF ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF OVERLAND PARK EQUAL TO NOT LESS THAN TEN PERCENT OF THE NUMBER OF ELECTORS WHO VOTED AT THE LAST PRECEDING REGULAR CITY ELECTION SHALL BE FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK OF OVERLAND PARK DEMANDING AN ELECTION ON THE CHARTER ORDINANCE, IN WHICH CASE THE CHARTER ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ONLY IF AND WHEN APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF THE ELECTORS VOTING THEREON