Title 19 - Charter Ordinances

Charter Ordinance No. One-C (Repealed by Ch. Ord. No. Twenty-Five)

(Note: All or parts of this charter ordinance have been repealed.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

A CHARTER ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2 OF CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. ONE AND AMENDMENTS THERETO OF THE CITY OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, REPEALING SAID ORIGINAL SECTION AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT BEING THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL, PASSAGE OF ORDINANCES, AND TIE VOTE.

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

SECTION 1. Section 2 of Charter Ordinance No. One is hereby and hereinafter amended to read as follows:

The Governing Body shall consist of a mayor elected by the City as a whole and ten councilmen elected by districts as hereinafter provided. Qualifications, oaths and bonds of the mayor and councilmen shall be as provided in the general laws establishing and relating to the mayor-council form in cities of the first class. On the second Monday after the first Tuesday in the month of April of each year, the Council shall elect, by majority of the votes cast in secret ballot, one of its members as president of the Council who, in the absence or disability of the mayor shall become acting mayor; Provided, that such councilman shall retain all his voting rights and other prerogatives as councilman while acting as mayor. All powers now exercised by cities of the first class which are not inconsistent with this charter ordinance, or which shall hereafter be conferred upon them shall be exercised by the Governing Body herein provided for; Provided, that any ordinance shall be passed by a vote of six councilmen unless a greater number of votes are specifically required by another provision of law; Provided that where the number of favorable votes is one less than required the mayor shall have the power to cast the deciding vote in favor of the ordinance; Provided, that any resolution, motion or any other action of the Governing Body except charter ordinances, upon which the mayor's vote shall be counted on every occasion, shall be passed by a majority vote of the councilmen present, and where the number of favorable votes is one less than required, the mayor shall have the power to cast the deciding vote in favor of the resolution, motion or other action.

SECTION 2. Section 2 of Charter Ordinance No. One is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official City newspaper.

SECTION 4. This is a Charter Ordinance and shall take effect sixty-one (61) days after its final publication unless within sixty (60) days of its final publication a sufficient petition for a referendum is filed and a referendum held on the ordinance as provided in Article 12, Section 5, subdivision (c)(3) of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, in which case the ordinance shall become effective as 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 6TH DAY OF APRIL, 1970.

Duard Enoch, Mayor

ATTEST:

Bernice Heck, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:

Donald A. Culp, Acting City Attorney

Passed: 4/6/70

Published: 4/14/70

4/23/70

Effective: 6/23/70

Entire ordinance repealed by Charter Ordinance No. Twenty-Five

Effective on: 1/1/1901