A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF HAYSVILLE, KANSAS, FROM THE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 12-1651 AND 12-1651a AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, RELATING TO THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY.

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

SECTION 1. The City of Haysville, Kansas, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it the provisions of K.S.A.    12-1651 and 12-1651a and provide substitute and additional provisions as set forth in this ordinance. Such statutory sections are applicable to this City but are not uniformly applicable to all cities.

SECTION 2. The purpose of this ordinance is to provide the best possible notice to the citizens of the City of Haysville concerning the affairs of city government and to aid in the economic development of business within the City.

SECTION 3. The governing body of the City of Haysville shall designate a newspaper to be the official newspaper of the City, which shall continue to be the official paper until such time as the governing body shall designate otherwise. Circumstances permitting, the City will publish a resolution of the governing body in the former official paper, designating the new official newspaper and stating its name and address.

SECTION 4. Except as provided in Section 5, the official newspaper of the City of Haysville shall:

a.     Be published at least weekly, fifty times a year;

b.    Provide news, information and advertisements concerning the of Haysville, Kansas, and Unified School District No. 261, that it shall not be a trade, religious or fraternal publication.

c.     Have general paid subscriptions which exceed 50 percent of the number of votes cast in the last election of the governing body of the City; provided, that the publisher shall verify the number of subscriptions to the governing body of the City at the first council meeting of each quarter of the in the calendar year; provided further, that this subsection shall not apply if it is circulated by the United States mail to substantially all of the residential addresses within the City free of charge.

d.    Contain the designation “Official Newspaper of the City of Haysville, Kansas,” under the title of the paper, otherwise known as the “page one ear.”

SECTION 5. If the newspaper selected for the official newspaper of the City fails to meet the requirements set forth in Section 4, the official newspaper shall be one which has the following qualifications:

a.     It must be published at least weekly, fifty times a year and have been so published for at least one year prior to the publication of any official city publication.

b.    It must be entered at the post office of publication as second class mail matter.

c.     More than fifty percent of the circulation must be sold to the subscribers either on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis.

d.    It shall have general paid circulation on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis in the county and shall not be a trade, religious or fraternal publication.

(09-23-1985; Repealed by C.O. No. 10B)