A charter ordinance exempting the City of Concordia, Kansas, from the provisions of K.S.A. (Weeks) 14-1502, relating to persons eligible for appointive office in the City of Concordia, Kansas, providing substitute and additional provisions on the same subject, and repealing Charter Ordinance No. 8 of the City of Concordia, Kansas.

Be It Ordained by the governing body of the City of Concordia, Kansas:

Section 1. That the City of Concordia, Kansas, under the authority of article 12, section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from and to make inapplicable to it K.S.A. (Weeks)14-1502, which applies to said city but the provisions of which do not apply uniformly to all cities, and to provide substitute and additional provisions on the same subject.

Section 2. No person shall be required to be a resident of the City of Concordia, Kansas, or of the territory within a two-mile radius of said city, prior to becoming employed by the City of Concordia, Kansas, or prior to appointment to an office of said city, unless residence is specifically required by law.

Section 3. Every person who is a nonresident of this City of Concordia, Kansas, or of the territory within a two-mile radius of said city, at the time of his or her employment by the City of Concordia, Kansas, or at the time of his or her appointment to an office, shall become a legal resident of the City of Concordia, Kansas, or the territory within a two-mile radius of said city, within 90 days from the day of employment or appointment.

Section 4. The city commission may, in its discretion, grant one 90-day extension of time within which an employee or appointed officer must establish a residence within the City of Concordia, Kansas, or the territory within a two-mile radius of said city.

Section 5. This ordinance shall not affect or apply to persons employed by the City of Concordia or acting as appointed officers of said city on the effective date of this ordinance, but shall apply to all persons employed or appointed after the effective date of this ordinance.

Section 6. That Charter Ordinance No. 8 of the City of Concordia, Kansas, is hereby repealed.

(11-1-1978)