CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF BUCKLIN, KANSAS FROM SECTION 15-201 OF THE KANSAS STATUTES ANNOTED AND FROM PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF MAYOR AND FIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS, THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE, QUALIFICATIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO SAID OFFICES.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF BUCKLIN, KANSAS:

SECTION 1: The City of Bucklin, Kansas, a Mayor-Council City of the Third Class by the power vested in it under and by virtue of Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to and does exempt itself from and makes inapplicable to it, Section 15-201 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, which statute applies only to Mayor-Council Cities of the Third Class and provides substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2: The City of Bucklin, Kansas shall be governed by five (5) Council Members and a Mayor as provided herein and in the appropriate statutes of the State of Kansas not otherwise specifically referred to herein.

SECTION 3: A regular city election shall be held on the first Tuesday of April of each odd numbered year. In April 2011, an election shall be held for a Mayor and two (2) Council Members. The Mayor shall hold office for four (4) years and until his successor is elected and qualified.

SECTION 4: There shall be elected at the April 2011 election, one (1) Mayor and two (2) Council Members who shall have received the highest vote at said election shall hold their respective offices for a term of four (4) years each and the remaining three (3) Council Members elected shall hold their respective offices for a term of two (2) years each. Thereafter, Mayor, two (2) Council Members and three (3) Council Members, alternately, shall be elected in each odd numbered year and shall hold their respective offices for a term of four (4) years each and until their successors are elected and qualified.

SECTION 5: Whenever a tie shall occur in the vote of any of the aforesaid offices, the results shall be decided by lot by the Board of Canvassers. The City Clerk, shall within seven days after the canvass of the returns and determination by the Board of Canvassers of the persons elected, deliver to each such person a certificate of election, signed by him with the seal of the City and such certificate shall constitute notice of election. The terms of the offices shall begin at the first regular meeting of the Council in April following their election on the first Tuesday of April of each odd numbered year and they shall govern at any time before or at the beginning of said meeting. If any person elected to the office of Council Member does not qualify within the required time, he shall be determined to have refused to accept the office and a vacancy shall exist and, thereupon, the Mayor shall, with the consent of a majority of the remaining Council Members, appoint a suitable elector of the City to fill the vacancy for the term to which the refusing person was elected. In case of a vacancy in the office of Council Member occurring by reason of resignation, death, or removal from office or from the city, the Mayor by and with the consent of a majority of the remaining Council Members shall appoint some suitable elector of the city to fill the vacancy until the next election for that office.

In case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor occurring by reason of resignation, death, removal from office or from the city, the President of the Council shall become Mayor until the next regular election for that year and a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Council member becoming mayor.

(03-08-2011; Repealed by C.O. No. 10)