A charter ordinance exempting the City of Concordia from the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1007, relating to functions of the mayor and ordering of business, and providing substitute and additional provisions on the same subject.

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

Section 1. The City of Concordia, Kansas, by the power vested in the city by article 12, section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it that part of K.S.A. 12-1007, relating to functions of the mayor and ordering of business, which applies to the city but provisions of which do not apply uniformly to all cities, and to provide substitute and additional provisions on the same subject.

Section 2. The commission shall choose its own chairperson annually and determine its own order of business. The chairperson shall have the title of mayor during the year of his or her office, to the end that the city shall have an official head on formal occasions, and an official qualified to perform the functions required of a mayor by the applicable laws of the state.

Section 3. The commission shall choose one of its members annually to serve as mayor pro tem. The mayor pro tem shall perform the functions of the mayor when the mayor is not in attendance at a meeting.

(06-05-2002)