Charter Ordinance No. 1
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A Charter Ordinance exempting the city of Perry, Kansas from the provisions of K.S.A. Supp. 15-201, relating to the election of Mayor and Council members and providing substitute and additional provisions on the same subject.
Section 1. The City of Perry, Kansas, by the power invested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas hereby elects to make inapplicable to it and exempts itself from Section 15-201, Kansas Statutes Annotated, as amended, which applies to said city but not uniformly to all cities, and provides substitute and additional provisions on the same subject as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. A regular city election shall be held on the first Tuesday in April of each odd numbered year. At the regular city election in 1977 there shall be elected a mayor and five councilmen. At said election the candidates for councilmen receiving the three highest number of votes shall be declared elected for a term of four years. The candidates for councilmen receiving the next two highest number of votes shall be declared elected for a term of two years. The candidate elected mayor shall be declared elected for a term of two years. Succeeding elections for all such offices shall be for four-year terms. At such succeeding elections the candidates for councilmen receiving the two or three (as the case may be) highest number of votes shall be declared elected.
(12-14-1976)