A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF MAYETTA, JACKSON COUNTY KANSAS, A CITY OF THE THIRD CLASS, FROM SECTION 15-209 OF THE KANSAS STATUTES ANNOTATED AS AMENDED AND IN FORCE AT THE TIME THIS CHARTER ORDINANCE TAKES EFFECT AND PROVIDING A SUBSTITUTE PROVISION ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

Section 1.  The city of Mayetta, Jackson County Kansas, a mayor-council city of the third class, by the authority and power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to, and does, exempt itself from, and makes inapplicable to it. Section 15-209 of the Kansas Statutes annotated, as amended and in force at the time this Charter Ordinance takes effect, which applies only to mayor-council cities of the third class and applying to this City, and hereby provides itself substitute and additional provisions as herein provided.

Section 2.  The officers elected or appointed under this act shall be qualified electors of said City, except the City may appoint non-residents as City Clerk, city Treasurer, city Attorney, Municipal Judge and as law enforcement officers when deemed necessary, including the appointment of non-residents who also serve as City Attorney, Municipal Judge or law enforcement officers of another municipality or public agency; provide, that nothing herein shall authorize the appointment on nonresidents of the State. The City Attorney shall be a qualified elector of the county in which said City is located or of an adjoining county. Removal from such City of any officer elected or appointed under this provision, who is required to be a qualified elector thereof, shall occasion a vacancy in such office. All vacancies in office, except in the offices of Mayor and Councilman, member filled, until the next regular time for appointment, by appointment by the Governing Body of the City. Every appointment to office and the date thereof shall be entered on the journal of proceedings of the council.

(2-5-1996)