A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF OSAWATOMIE, KANSAS, FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 14-103 AND 14-201, KANSAS STATUTES ANNOTATED, PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF EIGHT COUNCIL MEMBERS, ELECTION OF MAYOR, AND SETTING FORTH THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE.

Section 1.         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 Sections 14-103 and 14-201, of Kansas Statutes Annotated, which apply only to cities of the second class and which are not applicable uniformly to all cities, and hereby elects to provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter recited.

Section 2.         The governing body of the City of Osawatomie, Kansas, shall consist of eight council members and one mayor. Two council members shall be elected from each ward. The mayor shall be elected at large.

Section 3.         A regular city election shall be held on the first Tuesday in April of 1981. At said election the person receiving the highest number of votes in that ward shall be elected to the council for a term of two years. The person receiving the second highest number of votes in that ward shall be elected to the council for a term of one year. The mayor shall be elected for a term of two years.

Thereafter, in 1982 and all subsequent years, elections shall be had for the purpose of filling the vacancies of the council members, or mayor, whose term shall have expired, and said person shall be elected for a term of two years.

(06-12-1980; Repealed by C.O. No. 17)