3-127.   Same; rates; employees; equipment; adjustment of water andlight rates.The board of public utilities of any such city shall have the exclusivecontrol of the municipal airport and municipal fields for aviation purposesand shall fix the rates to be charged for the use of the municipal airportfacilities and for the use of the municipal fields for aviation purposes.It shall have power to hire and discharge all employees, agents andofficers of the municipal airport and municipal fields for aviationpurposes in such city and fix their compensation, purchase all machinery,tools and other appliances and all materials and supplies necessary for theoperation of the municipal airport and municipal fields for aviationpurposes, and to pay for the same out of the earnings of the water andelectric light plants not needed in the operation, management and controlof the said water and light plants as designated for said purposes by theprovisions of K.S.A. 13-1220 to 13-1234a and all acts amendatory thereofor supplemental thereto:Provided, That the board of public utilities may adjust its water andlight rates, if it becomes necessary, in order to meet any deficiency inrevenues required for the maintenance, operation, extension or improvementof such airport and municipal fields for aviation purposes and to providefunds to retire any bonded obligations of the municipal airport andmunicipal fields for aviation purposes as they become due.

      History:   L. 1941, ch. 12, § 2; March 26.