A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF FLORENCE, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 1971 SUPP. 79-1952 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AUTHORIZING AND LIMITING TAX LEVIES IN ANY ONE YEAR ON EACH DOLLAR OF ASSESSED VALUATION AND PRESCRIBING AN AGGREGATE FOR ALL CITY-WIDE TAX LEVIES, AND REPEALING CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 1.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF FLORENCE, KANSAS:
SECTION 1. The City
of Florence, Kansas, a city of the Second (2nd) Class by the power vested in it
by Article 12, Section 5 of the Kansas Constitution, hereby elects to exempt
and exempts itself from and makes inapplicable to it K.S.A. 1971 Supp. 79-1952
which is not applicable uniformly to all cities of the Second Class and the
legislature not having established classes of cities for the purpose of
imposing tax limitations and prohibitions and provides as hereinafter provided.
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 (1) year on each dollar
of assessed tangible valuation of the city in excess of the following rates:
General Operating
Fund …………………………………………………….…………...……. 25.00 mills
(which
shall include the following activities:)
General government; police department; fire
department; health and sanitation, including refuse collection and disposal;
highway (all public traveled ways including bridges); sewer maintenance; sewage
treatment and disposal; parks; cemeteries; street lighting.
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 Fund
……………………………………………………….…………………...………. 4.00 mills
Provided, that the first two (2) mills of
said levy shall be outside the aggregate tax levy limit prescribed by this
section.
Special Lighting
Fund ……………………………………………….………...………..………. 1.00 mill
Cemetery, Paving of
Street Leading to, ………………………………………………..………. 2.00 mills
as
authorized by K.S.A. 14-505
Ambulance and Fire
Fighting Equipment, ………………………………..…..…………..……. 1.50 mills
as
provided by K.S.A. 12-110 (b)
Industrial
Development, ………………………………..…..……………………………..……. 1.00 mill
as
provided by K.S.A. 13-1441
Historical
Collections, ………………………………..…..……………………………..……. 0.50 mill
as
provided by K.S.A. 12-1661
Provided, that the aggregate of all
city-wide tax levies of such city, except levies for the payment of bonds and
interest thereon, and levies authorized by statutes to be outside the aggregate
is hereby limited to 40 mills on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of
said city.
(01-04-1973; Repealed by C.O. No. 4)