A CHARTER ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE DESIGNATION OF AN OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPER OR NEWSPAPERS, EXEMPTING THE CITY OF HIAWATHA FROM K.S.A.64-101 AND PROVIDING FOR SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, AND PRESCRIBING THE QUALIFICATIONS AND METHOD OF DESIGNATING AN OFFICIAL, CITY NEWSPAPER OR NEWSPAPERS.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Hiawatha, Kansas:
SECTION 1. The City of Hiawatha, Kansas, by the power invested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby exempts itself from and makes inapplicable to it K.S.A. 64-101, a legislative enactment which is applicable to the City of Hiawatha, but is not applicable uniformly to all cities in the State of Kansas, and provides substitute and additional provisions on the same subject as hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. The Governing Body shall designate from time to time by resolution one or more newspapers as the official newspaper or newspapers of the City for publication of legal notices, advertisements or publications of any kind which may be required by the laws of the State of Kansas or of the City.
SECTION 3. Any newspaper designated by the Governing Body as an official newspaper shall be a newspaper which the Governing Body finds in the exercise of its discretion is at the time of the adoption of a resolution designating the official paper and has been for not less than sixty (60) days prior thereto a newspaper that meets the following qualification:
a. Has been published at least weekly and not less than fifty (50) times a year;
b. Has a general circulation on at least a weekly basis in the City and is not a trade, religious or fraternal publication; and
c. Has and maintains a regular office or place of business in Brown County, Kansas.
SECTION 4. Any newspaper that is an official City newspaper on the effective date of this ordinance shall continue to be an official City newspaper unless or until such time as the Governing Body shall adopt a resolution providing otherwise. Any publication in any newspaper, which at the time of the publication was an official City newspaper, shall be valid notwithstanding the subsequent adoption to the publication of a resolution changing the designation of the official City newspaper.
(01-19-2010)