A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF FLORENCE, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 79-1952; PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT; AND REMOVING CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OF TAX LEVY.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF FLORENCE:

SECTION 1. The City of Florence, Kansas, a city of the second class, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from, and make inapplicable to it, K.S.A. 79-1952, and provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter set forth in this ordinance. K.S.A. 79-1952 is applicable to this city but not applicable uniformly to all cities of the second class, and the legislature has not established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitations and prohibitions under said constitutional provision.

SECTION 2. The Governing Body of the City of Florence, 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 the city in excess of the following rates:

General Operating Fund

(which shall include the following activities:)

       General government; police department; fire department; health and sanitation, including refuse collection and disposal; highways (all public traveled ways including bridges); sewer maintenance, sanitary and storm; sewage treatment and disposal; parks; cemeteries.

       Provided, that the aggregate of all city-wide tax levies of such city, except levies for the payment of bonds and interest hereon; levies for the control and eradication of Noxious weeds; and levies authorized by other statutes to be outside the aggregate is hereby limited to thirty-five (35) mills on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of said city.

(05-22-1969; Repealed by C.O. No. 3)