14-537.   City parks commission; membership; increase in, when; powersand duties.Every city of the second class establishing city parks under theprovisions of K.S.A. 12-1301 to 12-1306, inclusive, and acts amendatorythereof or supplemental thereto, is hereby authorized to perform all theduties and exercise all the powers therein granted and imposed through acity parks board, composed of five (5) members who shall serve withoutcompensation, one of whom shall be the mayor or a councilman or acommissioner, appointed by the mayor and shall be ex officio chairman ofsuch board; and the other members shall be resident taxpayers of the city:Provided, That the governing body of any city of the second classowning and maintaining a golf course may increase the membership of thecity park board from five (5) to nine (9) members.

      No member of said parks commission shall be related by blood or marriageto the mayor, to any city commissioner, to any member of the council, or toany officer of the city government. The first term of the members of thecity parks commission first appointed shall expire at the expiration of theterm of the mayor who appoints the commission, and the term of officethereafter shall be for two (2) years unless sooner removed by the mayor.The city parks commission shall make an annual report of all itsproceedings and the condition of the parks of the city to the governingbody 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.