The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-27
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Il 0pllshed IN The Topeka State Journal
FEBRUARY p, 1871
| SS1BSIIIU UTE FOR HOUSE Bill. No 1870
49,, 60 authorizing cities having a DoD-
ulation of over seventy-fiye tboi5ss q ~
ndpltantS to make an extra levy for
- Aes 70 maintain its fire department..
ana authorizing such cities 10 s1,br,it
snch levy to vote of the peopie and
prescrlblng certain duties of the CITY
government pursuant thereto.
BE IT enacted by the Iatura ~ +to
state of Kansas: - ~
oectlon l. That in all cities in the state
e oa Kansas having a population of over
TO the conditions hereinafter nrescribed
are hereby authorized to levy A tax in Id
ultlon TO the amount already allowed bv
r,i1i III ne ne sum OF not exceeding one-haIf
IN IN On the dollar of the assessed vaIua-
elorl or all taxable property of such cities
III lhe preceding year, to be collected as
othef taxes, for the purpose of maintain
ing a double platoon fire departrnent. ~
Vlded that no such levy shall be made
until the proposition to levy such tax has
peen submitted to popular vote in s1Icb
city, as hereinafter prescribed
Sec. = The mayor and council, or 1navo,.
mayor ana commissioners as the case
may De, shall prescribe by ordinance tha
amount of tax sought to be levied ana ~ =
terms ana conditions upon which the
FIJI shah De applied. but such ordinance
s SIlan not become effective or operative
until the same has been ratified at tbe
regular biennial spring election in sncb
cities in 1918. or thereafter as hereinafte
Sec. 5. The proposition shall ba s,t,,,i4
TED on separate ballot and shall he in
substantially the following form ~
Froposlnon concerning fire tax levy"
Yes. q;
And if majority of the votes cas+ ar
- Su eI 9iectlon shall be in the affirmative
~ shd1 De the duty of the mayor or mavor
ana commissioners. as the case NAV he
~ a paSS OF enact the necessary ordinance
10 larry INTO effect the proposition so sub
Initted and ratified by the electors at s1Icb
city election. And upon the passage of
such ordnance. it shall be the duty of
me city clerk TO certify such levy to the
county clerk as by law in such cases uada
and provided.
sec l. And if the said proposition to
leVy such tax is ratified by the electors at
such biennial election in the sDrineT of 1a1q
as herenbefore provided If shan he W.,
lawful for the mayor and council or
mayor and commissioners as the case
may be. on and after January / 1914
e:Acepl III cases of emergency, confla gra-
ton, or other public danger, to require
members and the employees of the fire
department to work more than twelve
hours per day.
Sec. 3. If the proposition for the extra
tax levy is rejected at the regular spring
election in 1913 in any such city it shall
be the duty of the mayor and council. or
mayor and commissioners as the case
may be, to submit like proposition at
any future regular spring election lnon
the presentation to him of the petition
signed by two thousand five hundred in
habitants. tax payers of said CITY re-
questing a resubmission of such proposf-
ton for the extra fire tax levy at the
first ensuing regular biennial spring cleo
ton And majority vote on that pro-
position in the affirmative shall authorize
the imposition of such levy and the estab-
fishing and maintenance of a double
platoon fire department. as hereinbefore
provided
Sec 6. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its publication in
the official state paper.
L hereby certify that the above bill orig
mated in the House, and passed that body
February 8, 1918.
The House Concurred to Senate Amend
ments February 81, 1913
w. L. BROWN.
Speaker of the House
GEO. F. ROGERS
Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the Senate February 20, 1913
SHEFFIELD INGALLS,
President of the Senate
Hal NJ. MORAN,
Asst Secretary of the Senate.
Approved Feb %. 1918.
GEO H. HODGES.
Governor
Stat of Kansas
Office of the Secretary of State
I, CHAS. H. SESSIONS, Secretary of
State of the State of Kansas, do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing Is a
correct copy of the original enrolled bill
now on file in my office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, haze
hereunto subscribed my name
ISeal.l and AFFIXED my official seal
this 18th day of February 1913
CHAS. Fl. SESSIONS
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