12-137.   Limitations and procedures for exercise of constitutional homerule power of taxation or other revenue measures; ordinance; notice; referendum.Where, under the power of cities granted by paragraph (b) of section 5of article 12 of the constitution of Kansas, thegoverning 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 licensefees for regulatory purposes, which is not limited or prohibited or aprocedure for the levy of which is not otherwise prescribed by enactmentof the legislature as provided by said paragraph (b), such ordinanceshall require a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members-elect of thegoverning 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 itsfinal publication, and if within sixty (60) days of its finalpublication a petition signed by a number of electors of the city equalto not less than ten percent (10%) of the number of electors who votedat the last preceding regular city election shall be filed with the countyelection officer of the county in which such city is entirely or primarilylocated demanding that such ordinance be submitted toa vote of the electors, it shall not take effect until submitted to areferendum and approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. Thegoverning body of any city may submit any ordinanceproviding for such levy to a referendum without petition. Ordinancesauthorizing such levies submitted to referendum withoutpetition may be passed by a majority vote of the governing body andshall be published once in the official city newspaper.

      History:   L. 1961, ch. 78, § 1; L. 1977, ch. 56, § 1; May 13.