PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
Article 6.--HOSPITALS
14-698.Same; bonds for sites, buildings, equipment and improvements;
election; costs.
Whenever in the judgment of the board of trustees it is necessary to
erect and equip a hospital building, or to erect and equip an addition to
an existing hospital building, or to make extensive alterations and
improvements of existing hospital buildings, or to erect and equip a
building for a nurses' training school, or to erect and equip a dormitory
for nurses and nurses in training, and acquiring sites in any case where
necessary and the landscaping thereof, or for several or all of such
purposes, and current funds are insufficient, it shall prepare an
explanatory statement and an estimate or estimates of the cost or costs and
submit the same to the governing body of the city and request that the
matter of issuing bonds of the city be submitted to an election of the
electors of the hospital territory.
The governing body of the city shall thereupon provide for a bond
election as provided by K.S.A. 10-120. If bonds are to be voted for more
than one purpose as herein specified one proposition describing the
different purposes and stating one amount may be submitted, or separate
propositions for different purposes with the proper amount may be
submitted. The cost of the bond election shall be borne out of the proceeds
of the sale of the bonds if the election carries and the bonds are issued;
otherwise it shall be paid by the board of hospital trustees, upon claim
being filed by the city. If a majority of the votes cast on a proposition
are in favor of the proposition the bonds may be issued. The bonds shall be
issued as are other city bonds and shall be general obligation bonds of
such city, but such bonds shall not be subject to any bond limitation nor
limit the issuance of other bonds of such city or other taxing unit in
which any hospital territory is situated.
The governing body of the city shall annually make such levy for bond
principal and interest as is necessary to retire the bonds as they mature
and the interest as it accrues, such tax levy or levies to extend over the
entire hospital territory, and shall be certified and extended and the
money collected and turned to the city treasurer the same as the current
levy for hospital purposes, but the bond and interest money shall be kept
by the city treasurer in a separate fund designated "hospital bond and
interest fund" and shall only be used to pay the hospital bonds and
interest.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
Article 6.--HOSPITALS
14-698.Same; bonds for sites, buildings, equipment and improvements;
election; costs.
Whenever in the judgment of the board of trustees it is necessary to
erect and equip a hospital building, or to erect and equip an addition to
an existing hospital building, or to make extensive alterations and
improvements of existing hospital buildings, or to erect and equip a
building for a nurses' training school, or to erect and equip a dormitory
for nurses and nurses in training, and acquiring sites in any case where
necessary and the landscaping thereof, or for several or all of such
purposes, and current funds are insufficient, it shall prepare an
explanatory statement and an estimate or estimates of the cost or costs and
submit the same to the governing body of the city and request that the
matter of issuing bonds of the city be submitted to an election of the
electors of the hospital territory.
The governing body of the city shall thereupon provide for a bond
election as provided by K.S.A. 10-120. If bonds are to be voted for more
than one purpose as herein specified one proposition describing the
different purposes and stating one amount may be submitted, or separate
propositions for different purposes with the proper amount may be
submitted. The cost of the bond election shall be borne out of the proceeds
of the sale of the bonds if the election carries and the bonds are issued;
otherwise it shall be paid by the board of hospital trustees, upon claim
being filed by the city. If a majority of the votes cast on a proposition
are in favor of the proposition the bonds may be issued. The bonds shall be
issued as are other city bonds and shall be general obligation bonds of
such city, but such bonds shall not be subject to any bond limitation nor
limit the issuance of other bonds of such city or other taxing unit in
which any hospital territory is situated.
The governing body of the city shall annually make such levy for bond
principal and interest as is necessary to retire the bonds as they mature
and the interest as it accrues, such tax levy or levies to extend over the
entire hospital territory, and shall be certified and extended and the
money collected and turned to the city treasurer the same as the current
levy for hospital purposes, but the bond and interest money shall be kept
by the city treasurer in a separate fund designated "hospital bond and
interest fund" and shall only be used to pay the hospital bonds and
interest.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
Article 6.--HOSPITALS
14-698.Same; bonds for sites, buildings, equipment and improvements;
election; costs.
Whenever in the judgment of the board of trustees it is necessary to
erect and equip a hospital building, or to erect and equip an addition to
an existing hospital building, or to make extensive alterations and
improvements of existing hospital buildings, or to erect and equip a
building for a nurses' training school, or to erect and equip a dormitory
for nurses and nurses in training, and acquiring sites in any case where
necessary and the landscaping thereof, or for several or all of such
purposes, and current funds are insufficient, it shall prepare an
explanatory statement and an estimate or estimates of the cost or costs and
submit the same to the governing body of the city and request that the
matter of issuing bonds of the city be submitted to an election of the
electors of the hospital territory.
The governing body of the city shall thereupon provide for a bond
election as provided by K.S.A. 10-120. If bonds are to be voted for more
than one purpose as herein specified one proposition describing the
different purposes and stating one amount may be submitted, or separate
propositions for different purposes with the proper amount may be
submitted. The cost of the bond election shall be borne out of the proceeds
of the sale of the bonds if the election carries and the bonds are issued;
otherwise it shall be paid by the board of hospital trustees, upon claim
being filed by the city. If a majority of the votes cast on a proposition
are in favor of the proposition the bonds may be issued. The bonds shall be
issued as are other city bonds and shall be general obligation bonds of
such city, but such bonds shall not be subject to any bond limitation nor
limit the issuance of other bonds of such city or other taxing unit in
which any hospital territory is situated.
The governing body of the city shall annually make such levy for bond
principal and interest as is necessary to retire the bonds as they mature
and the interest as it accrues, such tax levy or levies to extend over the
entire hospital territory, and shall be certified and extended and the
money collected and turned to the city treasurer the same as the current
levy for hospital purposes, but the bond and interest money shall be kept
by the city treasurer in a separate fund designated "hospital bond and
interest fund" and shall only be used to pay the hospital bonds and
interest.