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City of Mission, KS
Johnson County
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All ordinances of a City shall be considered at a public meeting of the Governing Body except as otherwise herein provided or where a Statute provides a different procedure for an ordinance for a specific purpose, provided that in Commission Cities of the First Class no ordinance other than one providing for the appropriation of funds, shall be passed finally on the day it is introduced, except in the case of public emergencies, and then only when requested by the Mayor in writing, but no ordinance granting a franchise or special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency measure.
The vote on any ordinance, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be by "yeas" and "nays", which shall be entered on the journal by the Clerk. No ordinance shall be valid unless a majority of all the members-elect of the Council of Council Cities or Mayor and other Commissioners of Commission Cities vote in favor thereof, provided that in Council Cities where the number of favorable votes is one (1) less than required, the Mayor shall have power to cast the deciding vote in favor of the ordinance.
The Mayor of a Council City shall have the power to sign or veto any ordinance passed by the Council, provided that ordinances on which the Mayor casts the deciding vote and appropriation ordinances the Mayor shall have no veto and he/she shall sign such ordinances if present at the meeting, and if the Mayor refuses or neglects to sign or be not present at the meeting they shall take effect without his/her signature. Any ordinance vetoed by the Mayor may be passed over the veto by a vote of three-fourths (3/4) of the whole number of Council members elected, notwithstanding the veto, provided that if the Mayor does not sign his/her approval of the ordinance, or return the same with his/her veto, stating his/her objection in writing, on or before the next regular meeting of the Council, the ordinance shall take effect without the Mayor's signature, such fact to be endorsed by the City Clerk on the ordinance and at the end of the ordinance as entered in the "Ordinance Book", provided further, that the President of the Council or Acting President of the Council shall have no power to sign or veto any ordinance.
No ordinance shall contain more than one (1) subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title; and no section or sections of an ordinance shall be amended unless the amending ordinance contains the entire section or sections as amended and the section or sections amended shall be repealed.
The style or ordaining clause of all ordinances shall be: "Be it ordained by the Governing Body of the City of Mission."
After an ordinance shall have been passed, the City Clerk shall assign to it a number, provided that appropriation ordinances may be numbered in a separate series.
The City Clerk shall cause all ordinances, except appropriation ordinances, as soon as practicable after they have been passed and signed, passed over the Mayor's veto or will take effect without signature, to be published once in the official City newspaper, unless a Statute requires more publications. Ordinances shall take effect the day of publication unless a different and later day is stated in the ordinance or otherwise specified by Statute, provided that appropriation ordinances shall take effect upon passage. The publisher shall print in a line preceding the number of the ordinance a statement in parentheses as follows: (Published, 20__), giving the month, day and year. The manner of publication and effective date of codifications shall be as hereinafter provided.
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The City Clerk shall keep an "ordinance book" in which shall be entered at length in plain and distinct handwriting or typewriting or printed copy, a copy of every ordinance immediately after its publication, or in the case of appropriation ordinances, immediately after passage, provided that if the "ordinance book" be a loose-leaf book the original ordinance, typed on paper designed for the purpose, may be inserted therein, provided further that appropriation ordinances may be entered in a separate "ordinance book". The ordinances as entered in the "ordinance book" need not be signed by the Mayor or attested by the City Clerk but such signatures may be written or typed or as shown on an attached printed copy.
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The City Clerk shall append at the end of each ordinance entered in the "ordinance book" a certificate substantially as follows: "I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original ordinance; that said ordinance was passed on the day of , 20__; that the record of the final vote on its passage is found on page ___ of journal ___; that it was published in the (name of newspaper) on the ___ day of____, 20__."
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Each "ordinance book" shall be appropriately designated by number or by letter or letters or by years, or otherwise.
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All ordinances of the City may be proved by the certificate of the City Clerk, under the seal of the City.
Any City is hereby authorized and empowered to incorporate in an ordinance by reference, in the manner hereinafter provided, any standard or model code or ordinance, regulation having the effect of law of a State Officer, board or other agency, or Statute, or portions thereof on any subject on which a City may legislate, which standard or model code or ordinance or State regulation is available in book or pamphlet form, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to waive any Statutory procedural requirement concerning a zoning ordinance, except that any City may incorporate by reference in conformity with K.S.A. 12-3010 a zoning ordinance or subdivision regulations in code form as that term is defined in K.S.A. 12-3301(c) if all other procedural requirements set forth in K.S.A. 12-708 are met.
The provisions of any standard or model code or ordinance, State regulation or Statute or portions thereof incorporated in an ordinance by reference shall be as much a part of the ordinance as if the same had been set out in full therein when the ordinance shall have been passed by the Governing Body of the City and published in the manner provided by law, and any Section, Article, Chapter, part or portion not incorporated shall be clearly and specifically described and declared to be omitted and any provisions changing or adding to the incorporated provisions shall be stated in full and published as a part of the ordinance, provided that instead of incorporating with omissions, the incorporating ordinance may designate specifically the Sections, Articles, Chapters, parts or portions of the standard or model code or ordinance, State regulation or Statute that are incorporated, provided further that no such ordinance shall be deemed to have incorporated therein any standard or model code or ordinance or State regulation unless the same shall be clearly described in the ordinance by name or title, the name or title of the agency, organization, or group or State Officer, board or agency which prepared, compiled, published or promulgated the same, the year or edition of the work or other sufficiently identifying description, and Statutes or portions thereof shall be identified by appropriate reference to Session Laws, general Statutes or supplements thereto, provided further, that not less than three (3) copies of any such standard or model code or ordinance or State regulation shall be marked or stamped "official copy as incorporated by Ordinance No.__," with all Sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted clearly marked to show any such omission or showing the Sections, Articles, Chapters, parts or portions that are incorporated, as the case may be, and to which shall be attached a copy of the incorporating ordinance, and filed with the City Clerk to be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable business hours, provided further, that the Police Department, Police Judge and all administrative departments of the City charged with the enforcement of any such ordinance shall be supplied, at the cost of the City, such number of official copies of any such standard or model code or ordinance or State regulation similarly marked as may be deemed expedient.
All such incorporating ordinances shall include a penal section or sections within the limits authorized by law to be provided for the violation of the ordinances of the City, provided that if the incorporated code or ordinance, State regulation or Statute contains penalty provisions which the City may or must inflict or if the incorporated code or ordinance is based upon a Statute whose provisions a City is specifically authorized to parallel in whole or in part by ordinance with the same penalties, such incorporating ordinance need not provide penalties.
The amendment of any standard or model code or ordinance or the publication of any new and revised such code or ordinance by the agency, organization, or group sponsoring the same shall in no wise affect the incorporating ordinance or the code or ordinance but such ordinance and the code or ordinance as incorporated shall continue in effect until the incorporating ordinance is repealed or a later standard or model code or ordinance is incorporated by reference. Any Statute or Section thereof or any State regulation or portion thereof which has been incorporated by reference and which is amended by the legislature or changed by the State Officer, board or agency, shall cease to be effective until and unless incorporated by amendment of the incorporating ordinance or another incorporating ordinance.