12-137. Limitations and procedures for exercise of constitutional home rule power of taxation or other revenue measures; ordinance; notice; referendum.
12-137
12-137. Limitations and procedures for exercise of constitutional home
rule power of taxation or other revenue measures; ordinance; notice; referendum.
Where, under the power of cities granted by paragraph (b) of section 5
of article 12 of the constitution of Kansas, the
governing body of any city by ordinance proposes to levy for revenue purposes any tax,
excise, fee, charge or other exaction other than permit fees or license
fees for regulatory purposes, which is not limited or prohibited or a
procedure for the levy of which is not otherwise prescribed by enactment
of the legislature as provided by said paragraph (b), such ordinance
shall require a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members-elect of the
governing body and shall be published once each week for two (2)
consecutive weeks in the official city newspaper.
No such ordinance shall take effect until sixty (60) days after its
final publication, and if within sixty (60) days of its final
publication a petition signed by a number of electors of the city equal
to not less than ten percent (10%) of the number of electors who voted
at the last preceding regular city election shall be filed with the county
election officer of the county in which such city is entirely or primarily
located demanding that such ordinance be submitted to
a vote of the electors, it shall not take effect until submitted to a
referendum and approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. The
governing body of any city may submit any ordinance
providing for such levy to a referendum without petition. Ordinances
authorizing such levies submitted to referendum without
petition may be passed by a majority vote of the governing body and
shall be published once in the official city newspaper.
History: L. 1961, ch. 78, § 1; L. 1977, ch. 56, § 1; May 13.