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United States — Kansas
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This section requires a municipality’s governing body to fill a vacancy promptly, either by appointment within 60 days or, if that does not happen, by calling a special election.
United States — Kansas
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A city governing body member may volunteer for certain emergency response services and may be paid the usual compensation or other remuneration for those volunteer services.
United States — Kansas
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This section defines key terms used in the act, including municipality, governing body, claim, warrant, check, warrant check, audit, and employee.
United States — Kansas
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Claims against a municipality usually must be filed in writing, with required details, before suit can be started.
United States — Kansas
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A city may adopt the modified mayor-council form of government, but the proposition must be submitted to voters under the procedures and timing set out here.
United States — Kansas
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The council must elect a president after each city general election, and council action is usually by majority vote. The mayor may make proposals but cannot vote. If the mayor is absent or disabled, the council president becomes acting mayor with limited powers and cannot veto council measures.
United States — Kansas
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The city’s governing body must divide the city into four districts by ordinance within 30 days after voters approve adoption of the modified mayor-council form, and it must later adjust district boundaries every eighth calendar year in January.
United States — Kansas
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This provision sets the mayor’s and council members’ term lengths and explains how mayoral and council vacancies are filled.
United States — Kansas
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In cities under this act, the council must set the mayor’s and council members’ compensation by ordinance.
United States — Kansas
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The mayor has specific administrative duties, including presiding over council meetings, signing ordinances and city contracts, giving veto notices, and representing the city.
United States — Kansas
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The mayor appoints department heads, with council confirmation; department heads report to the mayor and council; the council may remove a department head by unanimous vote.
United States — Kansas
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The city council must serve as the city’s policy-making body and meet at least once a month, or more often if public business requires.
United States — Kansas
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A city covered by this act may abandon the modified mayor-council form of government.
United States — Kansas
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References to “police judge” and “police court” in the Kansas Statutes Annotated are to be read as references to “municipal judge” and “municipal court.”
United States — Kansas
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Cities, counties, and townships may use warrants or bonds to pay for emergency equipment, but only after declaring the emergency and getting approval from the state board of tax appeals.
United States — Kansas
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Certain city governing bodies may levy up to two mills for a special fund, but only after adopting and publishing a resolution and, if petitioned, securing voter approval.
United States — Kansas
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A city that operates a fire department may buy fire-fighting equipment and pay for it with general obligation bonds, but it must publish notice first, and bond issuance can be blocked unless the notice and petition/voter-approval steps are satisfied.
United States — Kansas
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A municipality’s governing body may move certain eligible ambulance or emergency medical service tax funds into a special equipment-replacement fund, and must use those funds for replacement equipment.
United States — Kansas
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Fire department personnel may go beyond city or township limits during an emergency, and the fire chief or person in charge decides whether equipment and firefighters can be spared.
United States — Kansas
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Certain police and fire pension, annuity, and benefit payments are exempt from Kansas taxes and from execution, garnishment, or attachment, but they remain subject to claims under a qualified domestic relations order.