A CHARTER ORDINANCE AMENDING CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF HAYSVILLE, KANSAS, AND PROVIDING ADDITIONAL AND SUBSTITUTE PROVISIONS RELATING TO TERM OF OFFICE.

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

SECTION 1. Charter Ordinance No. 2, Section 2 is hereby amended to read as follows:

SECTION 2. There shall be elected on the first Tuesday in April of each odd-numbered year a mayor and one councilperson from each ward, and on each even-numbered year one council­ person from each ward as hereinafter provided. The council­ person shall be chosen by the qualified electors of their respective wards, and to be eligible for the office of council­ person, this person shall at the time of his/her election or appointment, be an actual resident of the City for at least six (6) months prior to election or appointment and if any councilperson shall move from the ward from which he/she was elected or appointed, that office as councilperson shall thereby become vacated. Those members of the governing body elected in 1984 shall have terms that expire in 1988 and those members elected in 1985 shall have terms that expire in 1989.

       Whenever there shall be a tie in the election of council­ persons, 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 the 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 the office, refusal to qualify or other­ wise, the president of the council shall become mayor until the next regular city election and a vacancy shall occur in the office of the councilperson becoming mayor. Thereupon the council shall elect from its membership a new president of the council.

SECTION 3. The original Section 2 of Charter Ordinance No. 2 of the City of Haysville is hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. Should any section, clause, or provision of the ordinance be declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of this Ordinance as a whole or any part thereof, other than the part so declared to be invalid.

(11-28-1983; Section 3 repealed by C.O. No. 3; Repealed by C.O. No. 2B)