A Charter Ordinance exempting the City of Quinter, Kansas, from K.S.A. 79-5011; providing substitute and additional provisions on the same subject; and authorizing the levying of taxes to create a special fund for the purpose of paying utility service costs.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF QUINTER:

Section 1. The City of Quinter, Kansas, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it K.S.A. 79-5011, and to provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter set forth in this Charter Ordinance, K.S.A. 79-5011 is a part of an enactment of the legislature establishing an aggregate tax levy limitation applicable to this City but not applicable uniformly to all cities, and the legislature has not established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing aggregate limitations under said constitutional provision.

Section 2. The provisions of K.S.A. 79-5001 to 79-5016, inclusive, shall not apply to or limit the levy of taxes by the City of Quinter, Kansas, for the payment of:

Utility service costs, whether paid from a separate property tax levy fund of the city or from any other tax supported fund.

Amounts produced from any levy specified or authorized in this Charter Ordinance, including any levy or purpose authorized to be levied in addition to or exempt from the aggregate levy limit of the city, shall not be used in computing any aggregate limitation, under Article 50 of Chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated.

Section 3. The City of Quinter, Kansas is hereby authorized to levy a tax for the purpose of paying utility service costs. As used in this Charter Ordinance, “utility service costs” shall include payments made by the city to a water, electric or natural gas system, company or utility for the purpose of obtaining street lighting or traffic control signals or for the lighting, heating, cooling or supplying of water or energy to any city building or facility or for the operation or performance of any function or service by the city.

(06-10-1982)