AN ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF OTTAWA, KANSAS, FROM KANSAS STATUTES ANNOTATED 79-1952, AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT RELATING TO THE LIMITATION ON THE ANNUAL TAX LEVY FOR LIBRARY PURPOSES.

Be it ordained by the Governing Body of the City of Ottawa, Kansas:

Section 1. The City of Ottawa, Kansas, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to make inapplicable to it and exempts itself from Kansas Statutes Annotated 79-1952, which applies to said city but not uniformly to all cities and provides substitute provisions on the same subject as hereinafter provided.

Section 2. The governing body of the City of Ottawa, Kansas, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year at a rate of levy in any one year on each dollar of assessed tangible evaluation if said City of Ottawa, Kansas, for the following named purpose and not to exceed the following named rate:

Library . . . . 10 mills

Section 3. The Library Board shall recommend to the Governing Body of the City of Ottawa, no later than the 1st of June of each year, the amounts necessary for annual operations, employee benefits and capital improvements for the Library.

(09-06-1995)