A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF ELLIS, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 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 TANGIBLE VALUATION, AND PRESCRIBING AN AGGREGATE FOR ALL CITY-WIDE TAX LEVIES.

Section 1.         The City of Ellis, 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 makes inapplicable to it K.S.A. 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, provides for substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.

Section 2.         The governing body of the City of Ellis, Kansas, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year for the following 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) - No Limit

Police Department

Fire Department

Health and Sanitation, including refuse collected and disposal

Highways (all public traveled, ways, including bridges)

Sewage Maintenance

Sewage Treatment and Disposal

Parks

Cemeteries

Street Lighting and other authorized public lighting

Traffic Control

Swimming Pools and Parks

Fire Equipment

Reserve - 40 mills

Library - 3 mills (Provided that 2 mills of said levy shall be outside the aggregate levy limit prescribed by this ordinance)

Industrial Fund, as provided and authorized by K.S.A. 1964, 13-1441 et seq. or any amendment thereto -1 mill

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; the 1 mill of the library levy; the levy for the industrial fund, and levies authorized by other statues to be outside the aggregate, is hereby limited to the maximum allowed by law on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of said city.

(06-10-1975)