A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF OSAWATOMIE, KANSAS FROM THE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 12-1695, WHICH RELATE TO THE TOURISM COMMITTEE, PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH AND REPEALING CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 7.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF OSAWATOMIE, KANSAS AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION ONE:  That the City of Osawatomie, Kansas, a Mayor-Council-Manager City, being a City of the second class, by the power vested in it and conferred upon it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to and does exempt itself from and makes inapplicable to it K.S.A. 12-1695, which statute is not uniformly applicable to all cities, and hereby elects to provide substitute and additional provisions as herein recited.

SECTION TWO:  In lieu of the provisions set forth in K.S.A. 12-1695, which the Governing Body shall create by ordinance or resolution a Tourism Committee to make recommendations concerning the programs and expenditures for promotion of conventions and tourism. 

SECTION THREE:  That Charter Ordinance No. 7 and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION FOUR:  That this Ordinance shall be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in the official City newspaper.

SECTION FIVE:  That this is a Charter Ordinance and shall take effect sixty-one (61) days after its final publication but should a petition, signed by a number of electors of the City equal to not less than ten percent (10%) of the number of electors who voted in the last proceeding regular city election, be filed in the office of the City Clerk, demanding that such an ordinance be submitted to a vote of the electors, it shall not take effect until submitted to a referendum and approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, as provided by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas.

(03-14-2013)