Kansas Statutes

Chapter 14: Cities Of The Second Class

PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS

Article 2: City Officers

Statutes:

• 14-201: Elective and appointive officers; terms; compensation.
• 14-202:
• 14-203:
• 14-204: Council members, election, residence, vacancies in offices of mayor or council member, how filled; president of council.
• 14-205: Qualifications of officers; appointment of nonresidents; removal of officer, effect; oaths and bonds.
• 14-206:
• 14-207: Precincts; change by governing body, when.
• 14-208:

• 14-201: Elective and appointive officers; terms; compensation. Except as provided in K.S.A. 12-1028a, and amendments thereto, there shall be elected on the first Tuesday in April of each odd-numbered year a mayor, council members and city treasurer. The mayor shall appoint, by and with the consent of the council, a municipal judge of the municipal court, a city marshal-chief of police, city clerk, city attorney, and may appoint police officers and any other officers deemed necessary. Any officers appointed and confirmed shall hold an initial term of office of not to exceed one year and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Any officers who are reappointed shall hold their offices for a term of one year and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The council shall by ordinance specify the duties and compensation of the office holders, and by ordinance may abolish any office created by the council whenever deemed expedient.

        The mayor, council members and city treasurer shall hold their offices for a term of two years.

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-201; L. 1951, ch. 137, § 3; L. 1951, ch. 395, § 43; L. 1959, ch. 83, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 90, § 5; L. 1968, ch. 274, § 32; L. 1982, ch. 83, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 84, § 1; April 21.

• 14-202:

        History:   L. 1898, ch. 7, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-202; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 274, § 50; April 30.

• 14-203:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 14; R.S. 1923, § 14-203; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 274, § 50; April 30.

• 14-204: Council members, election, residence, vacancies in offices of mayor or council member, how filled; president of council. Each ward of each city governed by this act shall have two council members, who shall be chosen by the qualified electors of their respective wards. No person shall be eligible for the office of council member who is not at the time of election an actual resident of the ward from which elected. If any council member moves from the ward from which elected, the office shall be deemed vacant. Whenever a vacancy occurs, the governing body shall appoint an elector of the ward where the vacancy occurs to be council member for the balance of the unexpired term.

        The council shall elect from its membership a president of the council. The president of the council shall preside in the absence of the mayor. If a vacancy occurs in the office of the mayor by death, resignation, removal from the city, removal from office, refusal to qualify, or otherwise, the president of the council shall become mayor until the next regular city election and the vacancy created in the office of the council member becoming mayor shall be filled by the governing body of the city. Thereupon the council shall elect from its membership a new president of the council.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 15; R.S. 1923, § 14-204; L. 1968, ch. 274, § 33; L. 1982, ch. 83, § 3; July 1.

• 14-205: Qualifications of officers; appointment of nonresidents; removal of officer, effect; oaths and bonds. All officers elected or appointed shall be qualified electors of said city, except that the city may appoint nonresidents as city attorney, municipal judge and as law enforcement officers when deemed necessary, including the appointment of nonresidents who also serve as city attorney, municipal judge or law enforcement officers of another municipality or public agency: Provided, That nothing herein shall authorize the appointment of nonresidents of this state. The city attorney shall be a qualified elector of the county in which said city is located or of an adjoining county. The removal from such city of any officer required to be a qualified elector shall occasion a vacancy in such office. The clerk shall enter every appointment to office, and the date thereof, on the journal of proceedings. The council may require all city officers, elected or appointed, to take and subscribe an oath and give bonds and security for the faithful performances of their duties.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 16; R.S. 1923, § 14-205; L. 1967, ch. 90, § 6; L. 1968, ch. 274, § 34; April 30.

• 14-206:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 17; R.S. 1923, § 14-206; L. 1935, ch. 120, § 1; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 274, § 50; April 30.

• 14-207: Precincts; change by governing body, when. In any city of the second class, whenever the number of registered voters in any ward exceeds one thousand (1,000) the governing body of such city may divide said ward into precincts, and whenever the number of registered voters in any precinct exceeds five hundred (500) said governing body may rearrange the boundary of the precincts in said ward or create an additional precinct therein so that, so far as practicable, the number of registered voters in each precinct shall be approximately equal.

        Precincts may be created and rearranged by ordinance only. No change may be made within thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the holding of an election of any kind in such ward.

        History:   L. 1905, ch. 223, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-207; L. 1933, ch. 136, § 1; L. 1968, ch. 274, § 35; April 30.

• 14-208:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 18; R.S. 1923, § 14-208; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 274, § 50; April 30.