A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF GIRARD, KANSAS, FROM THE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 12-834 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
WHEREAS, Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas (the "Act"), provides that cities may exercise certain home rule powers, including passing charter ordinances which exempt such cities from non-uniform enactments of the Kansas Legislature; and
WHEREAS, the City of Girard, Kansas (the "City") is a city, as defined in the Act, duly created and organized, under the laws of the State of Kansas; and
WHEREAS, K.S.A. 12-834 is an enactment of the Kansas Legislature relating to the issuance of bonds for the purposes of purchasing, constructing or extending works for natural gas, water, electric light, heating, or street-railway or telephone service, which enactment is applicable to the City, but is not uniformly applicable to all cities within the State of Kansas; and
WHEREAS, the governing body of the City desires, by charter ordinance, to exempt the City from the provisions of K.S.A. 12-834, and to provide substitute and additional provisions therefor.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF GIRARD, KANSAS:
Section 1. Exemption. The City, by virtue of the powers vested in it by the Act, hereby elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it the provisions of K.S.A. 12-834, and shall be governed by the substitute and additional provisions contained herein.
Section 2. Bonds for gas, water, light, electricity, heat, street-railway or telephone service. Whenever and as often as the members of the governing body of the City shall vote in favor of authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds of the City for the purpose of acquiring, purchasing, constructing, extending or improving facilities, or an interest in or output from such facilities, as necessary to supply the city and its inhabitants with natural gas, water, electricity, electric light or heating, street-railway or telephone service, it shall be lawful for the governing body of the City, by resolution duly adopted, to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for such purposes, which said bonds shall be issued according to law. The provisions of this Chatter Ordinance are supplemental to other statutes relating to the purchase, reconstruction or extension of such improvements and shall not prevent the City from using other available statutes.
Such resolution may, but is not required to, contain a provision that the issuance of the bonds be subject to: (a) a provision that the resolution be published one time in the official City newspaper, and if within 30 days after the date of publication of the resolution, a petition in opposition to the issuance of the Bonds, signed by not less than 10% of the qualified electors of the City, is filed with the City Clerk, the City shall not have the authority to issue the bonds until such question is submitted to the electors of the City at a special election called for that purpose or at the next general election and approved by a majority of the electors of the City voting at such election; or (b) approval by a majority of the electors of the City voting on such question at a special election called for that purpose or at the next general election. If no such written protest is filed pursuant to subsection (a), the City may proceed to issue the bonds. Any election required by this section shall be conducted in the manner set forth in K.S.A. 10-120 by the election officer of the county in which the City is located.
(06-30-2025)