A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF SOUTH HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 79-1953 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AUTHORIZING AND LIMITING TAX LEVIES IN ANY ONE YEAR ON EACH DOLLAR OF ASSESSED TANGIBLE VALUATION AND PRESCRIBING AN AGGREGATE LIMIT FOR ALL CITY WIDE TAX LEVIES.

SECTION 1. The City of South Hutchinson, Kansas, a city of the third class, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt and does exempt itself from, and makes inapplicable to it, K.S.A. 79-1953 which is not applicable uniformly to all cities of the third class and the legislature not having established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitations and prohibitions, and provides substitute and additional provisions.as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2. The governing body of the City of South Hutchinson, Kansas, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year for the following city purposes, but said governing body shall not fix a rate of levy in any one year on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of the city in excess of the following rates:

General operating fund, which shall include the following activities: general government, police department, fire department, health and sanitation, including refuse collection and disposal; highways (all public traveled ways, including bridges); sewer maintenance; parks; street lighting; traffic signals and parking control; hydrant rental; civil defense; forestry; restrooms ----- 13.00 mills.

PROVIDED, that any revenues derived from the motor vehicle and motor fuel taxes shall be budgeted to the credit of the highway department of said operating fund and shall be used exclusively for the purposes for which received;

Flood control maintenance----- 1.00 mills;

Fire Equipment ----- .50 mills;

Special street fund (which shall include the following activities): regrading, repaving, reoiling, remacadamizing, resurfacing, repairing and maintaining any streets or any portion of any street which is located within said city ---- .50 mills.

PROVIDED that the aggregate of all city-wide tax levies of such city, except levies for the payment of bonds and interest thereon, and levies for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, and levies authorized by other statutes to be outside the aggregate, is hereby limited to 15 mills on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of such city.

(03-17-1970; Repealed by C.O. No. 19)