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 3: Powers And Duties Of Mayor

Statutes:

• 14-301: Powers of mayor.
• 14-302: Signing commissions, appointments, and approval of bonds.
• 14-303:
• 14-304:
• 14-305: Messages and recommendations to council.
• 14-306: Reports by officers.
• 14-307: Enforcement of laws and ordinances; jurisdiction.
• 14-308: Vacancy in office of mayor or council member, how filled; president of council.
• 14-309: Call for aid to enforce laws.
• 14-310: Remission of fines; reprieves and pardons.

• 14-301: Powers of mayor. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the city council, and shall have a casting vote when the council is equally divided and none other, and shall have the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the city, and shall take care that the ordinances of the city and this act are complied with.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 21; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-301.

• 14-302: Signing commissions, appointments, and approval of bonds. The mayor shall sign the commissions and appointments of all the officers elected or appointed in the city, and endorse the approval of all official bonds by the governing body.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 22; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-302.

• 14-303:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 23; R.S. 1923, § 14-303; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 375, § 19; July 1.

• 14-304:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 24; R.S. 1923, § 14-304; Repealed, L. 1959, ch. 64, § 17; June 30.

• 14-305: Messages and recommendations to council. The mayor shall from time to time communicate to the city council such information and recommend such measures as in the mayor's opinion may tend to the improvement of the finances, the police, health, security, ornament, comfort and general prosperity of the city.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 25; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-305.

• 14-306: Reports by officers. The mayor shall have power, when he or she deems it necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his or her accounts or other papers, and to make report to the council in writing touching any subject or matter he or she may require pertaining to his or her office.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 26; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-306.

• 14-307: Enforcement of laws and ordinances; jurisdiction. The mayor shall be active and vigilant in enforcing all laws and ordinances for the government of the city, and the mayor shall cause all subordinate officers to be dealt with promptly for any neglect or violation of duty, and the mayor shall have such jurisdiction as may be vested in the mayor by ordinance over all places within five miles of the corporate limits of the city for the enforcement of any health, quarantine, cemetery or waterworks ordinance and regulation thereof.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 27; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-307.

• 14-308: Vacancy in office of mayor or council member, how filled; president of council. When any vacancy shall happen in the office of mayor by death, resignation, removal from the city, removal from office, refusal to qualify, or otherwise, the president of the council for the time being shall exercise the office of mayor, with all the rights, privileges and jurisdiction of the mayor, other than the appointment of officers pursuant to K.S.A. 14-201 and amendments thereto, until such vacancy be filled or such disability be removed, or, in case of temporary absence, until the mayor shall return. During the time the president of the council shall exercise the office of the mayor, the president shall receive the same compensation that the mayor would be entitled to; and in case of vacancy, other than a temporary absence or disability, the person exercising the office of mayor shall become mayor. Thereupon the council shall elect from its membership a new president of the council. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of council member, 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.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 28; R.S. 1923, § 14-308; L. 1968, ch. 274, § 36; L. 1988, ch. 84, § 2; April 21.

• 14-309: Call for aid to enforce laws. The mayor is hereby authorized to call on every male inhabitant of the city over eighteen years of age and under the age of fifty years, to aid in enforcing the laws.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 29; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-309.

• 14-310: Remission of fines; reprieves and pardons. The mayor shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses arising under the ordinances of the city, by and with the consent of the council; but no such fine or forfeiture shall be remitted or pardon granted, except at a legal session of the council, nor unless the reasons therefor, together with the order of remission or pardon, be entered on the journal by the clerk.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 30; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-310.