CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF SOUTH HUTCHINSON, KANSAS FROM K.S.A. 15-209 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, ALLOWING CERTAIN APPOINTED CITY OFFICERS TO BE NON-RESIDENTS.
SECTION 1. The City of South Hutchinson, Kansas a mayor-council city of the third class, by the power invested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the constitution of the State of Kansas, elects to and hereby exempts itself from and makes inapplicable to it K.S.A. 15-209 which applies uniformly only to cities of the third class, and elects to and hereby does provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter set out.
SECTION 2. The officers appointed pursuant to K.S.A. 15-204 may be nonresidents of the city but shall be residents of this state and qualified electors of Reno County.
SECTION 3. Vacancies in office except in the office of mayor and councilman may be filled until the next regular time for appointment by the governing body. Every appointment to office on the date thereof shall be entered on the journal of proceedings of the council.
(01-04-1977)