12-4902. Establishment of home; acquisition of existing home; ordinance; protest; election; revenue bonds, limitation.
12-4902
12-4902. Establishment of home; acquisition of existing home;
ordinance; protest; election; revenue bonds, limitation.
The governing body of any such city may establish a home for the aged
and acquire a site for and construct and equip a building or buildings and
appurtenances for such purpose or may acquire by gift
or purchase an existing adult care home to be used as a home for the
aged. No such home shall be established or acquired if it would cause
a duplication of any similar facility then located within such municipality
unless the governing body finds, upon sufficient evidence, that such
existing facility is inadequate to meet the needs of the residents of such
city and the proposed home or home to be acquired would not
substantially compete therewith. Such home for the aged shall be
established or acquired by ordinance and such ordinance shall not take
effect until 60 days after it is published in the official city paper. If
within 60 days a petition signed by a number of electors of the city equal
to not less than 5% of the number of electors who voted at the last
preceding regular city election shall be filed in the
office of the clerk of such city 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. Such
election shall be called, noticed, and the proposition stated on the ballot
in like manner as charter ordinances are required to be submitted to a vote
of the electors under the provisions of subsection (3) of section 5 of
article 12 of the constitution of the state of Kansas, and the
ordinance, if approved by the electors, shall take effect in like manner as
charter ordinances under the subsection (3).
The ordinance establishing the home for the aged shall state
the total estimated cost, if any, and the amount of revenue bonds, if
any, that are to be issued to pay the cost of the acquisition of the site
for, construction and equipment of the home for the aged or of the
acquisition of an existing adult care home to be used as a home for the
aged, and the total amount of such revenue bonds to be issued shall not
exceed $2,000,000.
History: L. 1965, ch. 146, § 2; L. 1967, ch. 115, § 2; L. 1971,
ch. 69, § 2; L. 1986, ch. 85, § 2; April 24.