A Charter Ordinance exempting the City of Peabody, Kansas from Section 79-1953 of the General Statutes Supplement of 1961 and providing substitute and additional provisions on the same subject, authorizing and limiting tax levies in any one year on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation and prescribing an aggregate for all city-wide tax levies.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF PEABODY, KANSAS:

Section 1. The City of Peabody, Kansas, a city of the third class by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas hereby elects to exempt and exempts itself from, and makes inapplicable to it, Section 79-1953 of the General Statutes Supplement of 1961 which is not applicable uniformly to all cities of the third class and the legislature not having established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitations and prohibitions, and provides substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.

Section 2. The governing body of the City of Peabody, Kansas is hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year for the following city purposes, but said governing body shall not fix a rate of levy in any one year on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation in excess of the following rates:

General Operating fund (which shall include the following activities):

General government; police department fire department; health and sanitation, including refuse collection and disposal; highways (all public-traveled ways, including bridges); sewer maintenance; sewage treatment and disposal; parks; street lighting; rest room; hydrant rental; forestry; civil defense; 12.00 mills,

Provided Any revenue derived from motor vehicle and motor fuel taxes shall be budgeted to the credit of the highways department of said general operating fund and shall be used exclusively for the purposes for which received - Support of hospital of Peabody Memorial hospital .25 mills.

Provided, That the aggregate of all city-wide tax levies for said city, except levies for the payment of bonds and interest thereon levies for control and eradication of noxious weeds; and levies authorized by other statutes to be outside the aggregate is hereby limited to Twelve and 25 one hundredths mills of each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of said city.

Section 3 This charter Ordinance shall control and prevail over any prior act of the Governing Body of the City of Peabody, Kansas and may be repealed or amended only by charter Ordinance or by enactment of the Kansas legislature applicable to all cities.

(03-04-1963; Repealed by C.O. No. 3)