A CHARTER ORDINANCE ENACTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 OF ARTICLE 12 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, AMENDING AND MODIFYING THOSE PREVIOUS CHARTER ORDINANCES RELATING TO THE LEVYING OF COURT COSTS IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF WHITEWATER, KANSAS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF WHITEWATER, KANSAS:
Section 1. This ordinance is enacted pursuant to Section 5, Article 12 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, and is enacted in further authority of K.S.A. 12-137 et seq., and all acts amendatory and supplemental thereto.
Section 2. That the City of Whitewater, Kansas hereby declares itself exempt from the provisions of K.S.A. 12-4112 and the provisions of Section 3 of this ordinance shall be deemed to be substituted for such statutory provisions immediately hereinbefore recited.
Section 3. The City of Whitewater may by regular ordinance establish court costs to be paid involving cases in municipal court.
Section 4. That in addition to witness fees and mileage permitted and allowed pursuant to K.S.A. 12-4411 the municipal judge of the court of the City of Whitewater, Kansas hereby is authorized and empowered to assess additional costs above such fees and mileage over and above the costs provided for in the section immediately hereinabove of this ordinance in the actual amounts of any mileage incurred by said city in the transportation of any defendant to a place of safekeeping or incarceration in each cause at the rate of not to exceed the federal mileage reimbursement rate per mile and in addition thereto to the actual costs of taking any blood or other chemical tests and analyses taken at the direction of a police officer of said city deemed by said judge necessary for the prosecution of said action, provided that proper consents to such tests are obtained prior to the taking of the same when consents to the taking or making of such tests or analyses would otherwise be required by law and provided also that this cost shall not be assessed when the defendant in such cause of action is found to be not guilty and to this extent the said K.S.A. 12-4411 is hereby enlarged and supplemented. Nothing herein shall be construed as exempting said city from any provisions of said K.S.A. 12-4411 and the same shall remain in full force and effect.
(02-23-2026)