A charter ordinance exempting the City of Concordia, Kansas, from the provisions of section 12-4305 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated [K.S.A. 12-4305]; providing substitute and additional provisions on the same subject; and establishing a schedule of fines which may be imposed for the violation of certain ordinances.

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

Section 1. The City of Concordia, Kansas, a city of the second class, by virtue of the power vested in it by article 12, section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt and hereby does exempt itself from and makes inapplicable to it, section 12-4305 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated [K.S.A. 12-4305], which is not uniformly applicable to all cities, the legislature having made special provisions applying to certain classes in enactment.

Section 2. In lieu of K.S.A. 12-4305, the governing body of the City of Concordia, Kansas, hereby adopts the following provision:

       The municipal judge may establish a schedule of fines which shall be imposed for the violation of certain ordinances upon a voluntary entry of appearance and upon a plea of guilty or no contest to a complaint alleging such violation. The municipal judge may authorize the clerk of the municipal court or some other person to accept such voluntary entry of appearance and plea of guilty or no contest and to accept the payment of the fine imposed by the schedule. The schedule of fines and persons authorized to accept such pleas shall be conspicuously displayed in the office where such voluntary entry of appearance, plea of guilty and payment of fine occurs.

(04-20-1983)