14-537. City parks commission; membership; increase in, when; powers and duties.
14-537
14-537. City parks commission; membership; increase in, when; powers
and duties.
Every city of the second class establishing city parks under the
provisions of K.S.A. 12-1301 to 12-1306, inclusive, and acts amendatory
thereof or supplemental thereto, is hereby authorized to perform all the
duties and exercise all the powers therein granted and imposed through a
city parks board, composed of five (5) members who shall serve without
compensation, one of whom shall be the mayor or a councilman or a
commissioner, appointed by the mayor and shall be ex officio chairman of
such board; and the other members shall be resident taxpayers of the city:
Provided, That the governing body of any city of the second class
owning and maintaining a golf course may increase the membership of the
city park board from five (5) to nine (9) members.
No member of said parks commission shall be related by blood or marriage
to the mayor, to any city commissioner, to any member of the council, or to
any officer of the city government. The first term of the members of the
city parks commission first appointed shall expire at the expiration of the
term of the mayor who appoints the commission, and the term of office
thereafter shall be for two (2) years unless sooner removed by the mayor.
The city parks commission shall make an annual report of all its
proceedings and the condition of the parks of the city to the governing
body in the month of January of each year.
History: L. 1921, ch. 133, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-537; L. 1959, ch. 106, § 1;
June 30.