State of Kansas           )

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Marion County           )

I, Stephanie Ax Lago, City Clerk of the City of Peabody, Marion County, Kansas do hereby certify that said city is a city of the third class of the mayor-council form of government under the statutes of Kansas; that this codification of the general ordinances of said city and the publication thereof in book form were ordered and authorized by the governing body by ordinance and in accordance therewith is entitled the “Code of the City of Peabody, Kansas,” that said codification was adopted as the “Code of the City of Peabody, Kansas,” by the governing body by Ordinance No. 08-2016 passed on November 14, 2016, as authorized by K.S.A. 12-3015; that said ordinance and said codification of general ordinances as contained in this volume will take effect upon publication of 4 or more copies in book form; that the publication of 4 copies of this code in book form and said adoptive ordinance constitute due passage of this code and all general ordinances contained therein; that the codification and said adoptive ordinance as contained herein are true and correct copies; and that said publication imports absolute verity and is to be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof as provided by K.S.A. 12-3015.

I further certify that the “Code of the City of Peabody, Kansas,” and the matter therein contained will take effect and be in force from and after November 23, 2016 (date of publication of the codification ordinance in the newspaper).

/s/ Stephanie Ax Lago                                      

Stephanie Ax Lago, City Clerk

DATE: November 14, 2016.