A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF HAYSVILLE, KANSAS FROM K.S.A. 14-204, AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE SAME SUBJECT AND PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF COUNCILMEN, THEIR QUALIFICATIONS, TIE VOTING AND FILLING OF VACANCIES.

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

SECTION 1. That the City of Haysville, Kansas a mayor-council city of the second class, by the power invested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to and exempts itself from and makes inapplicable to it Section 14-204 of the Kansas Statutes, Annotated. Said section applies only to the mayor-council cities of the second class and applying to said city, and to provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2. Each ward of the City of Haysville shall have two (2) councilmen and shall be chosen by the qualified electors of their respective wards, and no person shall be eligible to the office of councilmen who is not at the time of his election or appointment, an actual resident homeowner of the ward for which he is elected or appointed and if any councilman shall move from the ward from which he was elected or appointed his office as councilman shall thereby become vacated. Whenever there shall be a tie in the election of councilmen, the winner shall be determined by lot by the judges of the election of the ward in which it shall happen, and all vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members of the city council at a regular council meeting within thirty (30) days of said vacancy; said appointment shall be for the period from and after the date of appointment until date of the next April City election, at which election said unexpired term shall be filled by election.

The council shall elect from its membership a president of the council. The president of the council shall preside in the absence of the mayor and when any vacancy shall occur in the office of the mayor by death, resignation, removal from the city, removal from office, refusal to qualify, or otherwise, the president of the council shall become mayor until the next regular city election and a vacancy shall occur in the office of the councilman becoming mayor. Thereupon the council shall elect from its membership a new president of the council.

(09-27-1976; Amended by C.O. No. 5A)