Title 19 - Charter Ordinances

Charter Ordinance No. Twelve- A (Repealed by Ch. Ord. No. Thirteen)

(Note: All or parts of this charter ordinance have been repealed.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

A CHARTER ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5 OF CITY OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. TWELVE, REPEALING SAID SECTION 5 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, DATE OF PRIMARY ELECTION.

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

SECTION 1. Section 5 of City of Overland Park, Kansas, Charter Ordinance Twelve is hereby and hereinafter amended to read as follows:

SECTION 5. DATE OF PRIMARY ELECTION

The primary election of the City officers provided for hereinabove shall be on the Tuesday preceding by four (4) weeks the first Tuesday in April of every year. No primary election of City officers shall be held on any other date.

No primary election of City officers shall be held unless, by holding such primary, one or more persons will be eliminated as candidates for office. In the event there is not more than one (1) candidate for each party nomination for any one office, the name of the candidate for such office shall not appear on the primary election ballots, 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. REPEAL

Section 5 of City of Overland Park Charter Ordinance Twelve is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in the official City newspaper.

SECTION 4. TAKE EFFECT

This is a Charter Ordinance and shall take effect sixty (60) days after its final publication unless a legally sufficient petition for a referendum is filed and a referendum election is held thereon as provided in Article XII, Section 5, Sub-paragraph (c) (3) of the Kansas Constitution, in which event the ordinance shall become effective upon approval by a majority of the electors voting thereon.

Passed by the Governing Body this 2nd day of December, 1970, upon the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the members elect.

Those members voting in favor of this Charter Ordinance were as follows: W. Jack Sanders, Ben M. Sykes, Jack Van Hercke, Richard K. Landtiser, Stanley E. Fackrell, Milton E. Erickson, Sid R. Messer, Janis L. Meyers, and Ellis J. Garrison. Those voting against enactment of the Charter Ordinance were as follows: None.

ATTEST: Duard Enoch, Jr., Mayor

Bernice Heck, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:

Donald A. Culp, City Attorney

Passed: 12/2/70

Publication: 12/4/70

12/11/70

Effective: 2/9/71

Entire ordinance repealed by Charter Ordinance No. Thirteen

Effective on: 1/1/1901