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) - 16 mills
General Government
Police Department Fire Department
Health and Sanitation, including Refuse collected and disposal
Highways (all public travelled 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 - .50 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 2 mills of the library levy; the levy for the industrial fund, and levies authorized by other statutes to be outside the aggregate, is hereby limited to 20 mills on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of said city.
(05-28-1968)