PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
Article 6.--HOSPITALS
14-699.Same; election of trustees; nominations; vacancies; expenses.
At all elections under this act all electors within the hospital
territory, both within and without the regular city limits, shall be
entitled to vote for all hospital trustee candidates and on all hospital
bond propositions. Registration for voting shall not be required of persons
in the added territory for the purposes of this act unless required by
other statutes. Before any election affecting the hospital the board of
trustees shall determine where polling places shall be provided for the
convenience of the electors of the added territory and the chairman and
secretary shall certify the determination to the governing body of the city
and the governing body shall provide the polling places as certified. The
members of the election boards at such polling places shall be electors of
the added territory, such members to be appointed by the governing body of
the city without regard to political affiliation.
Candidates for trustee shall not run as members of political parties.
Where the regular city population does not require the city to have a
primary, an elector desiring to become a candidate for hospital trustee
shall file a declaration of candidacy with the city clerk within the time
other nomination papers or declarations must be filed. The declaration
shall be in substantially the following form:
"I hereby declare my candidacy for the office of hospital trustee,
position No. ____, of the city of ______________, Kansas, at the
regular city election on the ____ day of __________, 19__. My address is
______________."
Signed: ______________
Such declaration shall be filed in person by the candidate and the city
clerk may require proof of identity. Where more than one trustee is to be
elected, whether for a regular term or to fill a vacancy, the city clerk
shall assign position numbers, such as Hospital Trustee, Position No. ____,
equal to the number of trustees to be elected, and candidates shall in the
declaration indicate the trustee position for which they are running, and
where one or more trustees must be elected from the added territory only
electors from the added territory shall be eligible to file for the
position numbers assigned to the trustee positions to be filled for the
added territory.
Where a vacancy is to be filled and the office is temporarily held by a
trustee from the added territory such vacancy shall be filled from added
territory. The city clerk shall explain to electors desiring to file
declarations whether a position is for election at large or for added
territory. Where the regular city population requires a primary, a
candidate shall file a declaration of candidacy similar in form to the form
required where there is no primary except that it shall state that the
candidate is a candidate for nomination at the regular city primary. At the
primary the candidates receiving the greatest and the next greatest number
of votes for a trustee office shall be declared nominated: Provided,
That where there are not more than two candidates for nomination for a
trustee office there shall be no primary for such office and the persons
who filed declarations of candidacy for nomination at the primary shall be
declared nominated as candidates at the regular election.
Where a primary precedes an election and more than one trustee is to be
elected, position numbers shall be assigned as at the election to follow.
If the election is one at which a term of less than three years is being
filled the declaration shall state the term for which the candidate is a
candidate or by reference to the position designating the short term. No
filing fee shall be required. The hospital fund shall bear the expense of
the election boards for polling places for added territory, and the other
expenses shall be paid the same as in cases of other city elections. In all
other respects the election laws applying to the city and not in conflict
herewith shall apply.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
Article 6.--HOSPITALS
14-699.Same; election of trustees; nominations; vacancies; expenses.
At all elections under this act all electors within the hospital
territory, both within and without the regular city limits, shall be
entitled to vote for all hospital trustee candidates and on all hospital
bond propositions. Registration for voting shall not be required of persons
in the added territory for the purposes of this act unless required by
other statutes. Before any election affecting the hospital the board of
trustees shall determine where polling places shall be provided for the
convenience of the electors of the added territory and the chairman and
secretary shall certify the determination to the governing body of the city
and the governing body shall provide the polling places as certified. The
members of the election boards at such polling places shall be electors of
the added territory, such members to be appointed by the governing body of
the city without regard to political affiliation.
Candidates for trustee shall not run as members of political parties.
Where the regular city population does not require the city to have a
primary, an elector desiring to become a candidate for hospital trustee
shall file a declaration of candidacy with the city clerk within the time
other nomination papers or declarations must be filed. The declaration
shall be in substantially the following form:
"I hereby declare my candidacy for the office of hospital trustee,
position No. ____, of the city of ______________, Kansas, at the
regular city election on the ____ day of __________, 19__. My address is
______________."
Signed: ______________
Such declaration shall be filed in person by the candidate and the city
clerk may require proof of identity. Where more than one trustee is to be
elected, whether for a regular term or to fill a vacancy, the city clerk
shall assign position numbers, such as Hospital Trustee, Position No. ____,
equal to the number of trustees to be elected, and candidates shall in the
declaration indicate the trustee position for which they are running, and
where one or more trustees must be elected from the added territory only
electors from the added territory shall be eligible to file for the
position numbers assigned to the trustee positions to be filled for the
added territory.
Where a vacancy is to be filled and the office is temporarily held by a
trustee from the added territory such vacancy shall be filled from added
territory. The city clerk shall explain to electors desiring to file
declarations whether a position is for election at large or for added
territory. Where the regular city population requires a primary, a
candidate shall file a declaration of candidacy similar in form to the form
required where there is no primary except that it shall state that the
candidate is a candidate for nomination at the regular city primary. At the
primary the candidates receiving the greatest and the next greatest number
of votes for a trustee office shall be declared nominated: Provided,
That where there are not more than two candidates for nomination for a
trustee office there shall be no primary for such office and the persons
who filed declarations of candidacy for nomination at the primary shall be
declared nominated as candidates at the regular election.
Where a primary precedes an election and more than one trustee is to be
elected, position numbers shall be assigned as at the election to follow.
If the election is one at which a term of less than three years is being
filled the declaration shall state the term for which the candidate is a
candidate or by reference to the position designating the short term. No
filing fee shall be required. The hospital fund shall bear the expense of
the election boards for polling places for added territory, and the other
expenses shall be paid the same as in cases of other city elections. In all
other respects the election laws applying to the city and not in conflict
herewith shall apply.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
Article 6.--HOSPITALS
14-699.Same; election of trustees; nominations; vacancies; expenses.
At all elections under this act all electors within the hospital
territory, both within and without the regular city limits, shall be
entitled to vote for all hospital trustee candidates and on all hospital
bond propositions. Registration for voting shall not be required of persons
in the added territory for the purposes of this act unless required by
other statutes. Before any election affecting the hospital the board of
trustees shall determine where polling places shall be provided for the
convenience of the electors of the added territory and the chairman and
secretary shall certify the determination to the governing body of the city
and the governing body shall provide the polling places as certified. The
members of the election boards at such polling places shall be electors of
the added territory, such members to be appointed by the governing body of
the city without regard to political affiliation.
Candidates for trustee shall not run as members of political parties.
Where the regular city population does not require the city to have a
primary, an elector desiring to become a candidate for hospital trustee
shall file a declaration of candidacy with the city clerk within the time
other nomination papers or declarations must be filed. The declaration
shall be in substantially the following form:
"I hereby declare my candidacy for the office of hospital trustee,
position No. ____, of the city of ______________, Kansas, at the
regular city election on the ____ day of __________, 19__. My address is
______________."
Signed: ______________
Such declaration shall be filed in person by the candidate and the city
clerk may require proof of identity. Where more than one trustee is to be
elected, whether for a regular term or to fill a vacancy, the city clerk
shall assign position numbers, such as Hospital Trustee, Position No. ____,
equal to the number of trustees to be elected, and candidates shall in the
declaration indicate the trustee position for which they are running, and
where one or more trustees must be elected from the added territory only
electors from the added territory shall be eligible to file for the
position numbers assigned to the trustee positions to be filled for the
added territory.
Where a vacancy is to be filled and the office is temporarily held by a
trustee from the added territory such vacancy shall be filled from added
territory. The city clerk shall explain to electors desiring to file
declarations whether a position is for election at large or for added
territory. Where the regular city population requires a primary, a
candidate shall file a declaration of candidacy similar in form to the form
required where there is no primary except that it shall state that the
candidate is a candidate for nomination at the regular city primary. At the
primary the candidates receiving the greatest and the next greatest number
of votes for a trustee office shall be declared nominated: Provided,
That where there are not more than two candidates for nomination for a
trustee office there shall be no primary for such office and the persons
who filed declarations of candidacy for nomination at the primary shall be
declared nominated as candidates at the regular election.
Where a primary precedes an election and more than one trustee is to be
elected, position numbers shall be assigned as at the election to follow.
If the election is one at which a term of less than three years is being
filled the declaration shall state the term for which the candidate is a
candidate or by reference to the position designating the short term. No
filing fee shall be required. The hospital fund shall bear the expense of
the election boards for polling places for added territory, and the other
expenses shall be paid the same as in cases of other city elections. In all
other respects the election laws applying to the city and not in conflict
herewith shall apply.