Title 19 - Charter Ordinances

Charter Ordinance No. Twenty-Five (Repealed by Ch.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(Note: All or parts of this charter ordinance have been repealed.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 REPEALING AND AMENDING SECTION l OF CHARTER ORDINANCE ONE-C OF THE CITY OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS; PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL, PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE, AND TIE VOTE; REPEALING CHARTER ORDINANCE ONE-C.

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 amended to read as follows:

Section 2. 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 by signed written 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. Charter Ordinance No. One-C is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the Overland Park Sun, an 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 member select voting in favor thereof the 7th day of January, 1980.

Ben M. Sykes

ATTEST: Mayor

Bernice Crummett

City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Phillip L. Harris

City Attorney

Passed: 1/7/80

Published: 1/11/80

1/18/80

Effective: 3/12/80

Entire ordinance repealed by Charter Ordinance No. Thirty-Four

Effective on: 1/1/1901