13-1348a. Park commissioners or airport authority in certain cities; issuance of bonds for park, parkway, boulevard or airport purposes; election; pledge of income from airport facility, effect.
13-1348a
13-1348a. Park commissioners or airport authority in certain cities;
issuance of bonds for park, parkway, boulevard or airport purposes; election;
pledge of income from airport facility, effect.
Any city having a board of park commissioners created pursuant to K.S.A.
13-1346 and amendments thereto, or an airport authority established
pursuant to K.S.A. 3-162 is hereby authorized to issue general
obligation bonds of such city for the purpose of purchasing land for
park, parkway, boulevard or airport purposes or for the construction,
enlargement, reconstruction, repair or addition to or of any
improvements to any such lands for any such purposes or any such lands
and any such improvements. No bonds shall be issued under the authority
conferred by this section until the question of the issuance of such
bonds has been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of
the city at a general or regular city election or a special bond
election and a majority of the electors voting on the question have
voted in favor thereof.
In lieu of the foregoing election requirement where, by resolution of
a board of park commissioners or an airport authority, net income of an
airport facility is pledged to the municipality for payment of bonds
issued hereunder, a resolution may be adopted by the governing body of
the municipality stating the purpose for which such bonds are to be
issued, and the total amount of the bonds proposed to be issued along
with a finding by the governing body that revenues pledged by resolution
of the board of park commissioners or airport authority will be
sufficient to retire general obligation bonds issued hereunder. Such
resolution and finding by the governing body of the municipality shall
be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the
official newspaper of such municipality. Whereupon, such bonds may be
issued unless a petition requesting an election on the proposition,
signed by qualified electors of such city equal in number to not less
than 2% of the electors of the municipality who voted at
the last preceding general election, is filed with the clerk of such
municipality within 60 days following the last publication of
such resolution. In the event such petition is filed, the governing body
of such municipality shall submit the proposition to the voters at an
election called for such purpose and held not less than 30 days
nor more than 60 days after the filing of such
petition. No bonds
shall be issued unless a majority of the electors voting on such
proposition vote in favor thereof. Such election shall be called
and held in the manner provided by the general bond law.
All such bonds shall be issued in accordance with the general bond
law. The total amount of bonds outstanding at any one time and issued
under this act shall not exceed 3% of the assessed value
of all taxable tangible property within the city. Bonds issued under
this act shall not be subject to or within the limitations prescribed by
any other law limiting the amount of indebtedness of any such city.
History: L. 1957, ch. 114, § 1; L. 1968, ch. 309, § 1; L.
1969, ch. 103, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 5, § 15; L. 1981, ch. 173, § 40; July 1.