A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF HANOVER, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 1973 SUPP. 79-1953 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT; AUTHORIZING AND LIMITING TAX LEVIES IN ANY ONE YEAR ON EACH DOLLAR OF ASSESSED TANGIBLE VALUATION; AND PRESCRIBING AN AGGREGATE FOR AL L CITY-WIDE TAX LEVIES.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF HANOVER, KANSAS.

Section 1. The City of Hanover, Kansas, a city of the third class, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt, and does exempt itself from and makes inapplicable to it, Section 79-1953 of the K.S.A. 1973 Supp., which is not applicable uniformly to all cities of the third class, the legislature not having established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitation, and hereby provides substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.

Section 2. The governing body of the City of Hanover, Kansas, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year for the following city purposes, but said governing body shall not fix a rate of levy in any one year on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of such city in excess of the following named rates:

General operating fund (which shall include the following activities): General government; police department; fire department; health and sanitation, including refuse collection and disposal; highway s (all public traveled ways including bridges); sewer maintenance; sewage treatment and disposal; parks; cemeteries; street lighting; rest room; hydrant rental; forestry; military memorial maintenance: 12 mills.

Provided, that any revenues derived from the motor vehicle and motor fuel taxes shall be budgeted to the credit of the highways department of said general operating fund and shall be used exclusively for the purposes for which received.

Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.0 mills.

Provided, that the aggregate of all city-wide tax levies of such city, except levies for the payment of bonds and interest thereon, levies for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, and levies authorized by other statute to be outside the aggregate, is hereby limited to 30 mills on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of such city.

(05-28-1974; Repealed by C.O. No. 4)