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HomeMy Public PortalAboutCharter Ord 20 Terms of Elected Officials(First published in The Ark Valley News on September 5, 2019 and again on September 12, 2019). CHARTER ORDINANCE NO. 20 A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF BEL AIRE FROM KSA 25-2120 AND AMENDING SECTION TWO RELATED TO TERMS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS OF CHARTER ORDINANCE 17 OF THE CITY OF BEL AIRE, KANSAS, AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE SAME. Be it ordained by the Governing Body of the City of Bel Aire, Kansas, Section 1. Exemption. Pursuant to the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, the City of Bel Aire, Kansas does hereby elect to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to this City all portions of the following statutes which are Acts of the Kansas Legislature that are non -uniform in application: KSA 25-2120 regarding swearing in date for elected officials, and to adopt the following substitute provisions: Section 2. Governing Body Positions and Terms of Office Established. There are hereby established five council member positions, which shall be elected at large from the City of Bel Aire, Kansas. Two council member positions shall be filled by election on the first Tuesday in April in 1999. The remaining three council member positions shall be filled by election on the first Tuesday in April of 2001. Council persons shall be elected to serve four (4) year terms. The term of the Mayor shall be for two (2) years. On and after January 1, 2017, all general elections for members of the Governing Body shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November. Persons elected to serve as a member of the Governing Body in an April election held prior to January 1, 2017, whose term of office was to expire in 2017, shall continue to serve until the second Monday in January, 2018, and those whose term was to expire in 2019, shall continue to serve until the member's successor is sworn in in December of 2019, but not later than the same day of first regular meeting in December. Beginning in 2019, the term for all Governing Body members elected during the general elections in November shall begin upon the member's swearing in. All such members shall be sworn in by the first regular meeting of the Governing Body in December of the same year such members were elected. Section 3. Saving Clause. If any phrase, clause, paragraph or section of this Charter Ordinance is declared unconstitutional or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, it is hereby declared that the Governing Body would have enacted the remaining portions of this Charter 1 Ordinance without such phrase, clause, paragraph or section so held unconstitutional or invalid. Section 4. Effective Date. This Charter Ordinance shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official city newspaper, and shall take effect sixty-one days after its final publication, unless a sufficient petition for a referendum is filed in conformance with Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas. If a referendum is held, this ordinance shall become effective on the day after approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. Passed by two-thirds vote of the members elect of the Bel Aire City Council this 3rd day of September, 2019. Approved by the Mayor 3`d day of September, 2 MAYOR DAVID AUSTIN ATTEST: ize4-pcx- /9-41ezi/ MELISSA A. KRE -ILBIEL, CITY CLERK SEA CITY OF THE FUTURE WITH RESPECT FOR ITS PAST 2