A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CI1Y OF BELOIT, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 79-1952; PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS OF THE SAME SUBJECT; AND REMOVING CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OF THE TAX LEVY BY AMENDING SECTION 2 AND CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 9, INCREASING THE LIBRARY MILL LEVY FROM, NOT TO EXCEED 6.00 MILLS, TO, NOT TO EXCEED 7.00 MILLS.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CI1Y OF BELOIT, KANSAS:

SECTION 1: The City of Beloit, Kansas, a city of the second class, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from, and make inapplicable to it, K.S.A. 79-1952, and provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter set forth in this ordinance. K.S.A. 79-1952 is applicable to this city but is not applicable uniformly to all cities of the second class, and the legislature has not established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitations and prohibitions under said constitutional provisions.

SECTION 2: That part of Section 2 of Charter Ordinance No. 9 [refers to C.O. No. 3] concerning the Library mill levy is hereby changed to read as follows:

       Library Fund (providing the levy shall not exceed 7.00 mills). All other provisions of Section 2 of Charter Ordinance No. 3 shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 3: Charter Ordinance No. 9 is hereby repealed.

(06-02-2009; Repealed by C.O. No. 16)