A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF WHITEWATER, KANSAS FROM K.S.A. 15-209 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, ALLOWING CERTAIN APPOINTED CITY EMPLOYEES AND OFFICERS TO BE NON-RESIDENTS OF THE CITY.

Section 1.         The City of Whitewater, Kansas, a mayor-council city of the third class, by the power invested in it by Article 12, section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, elects to and hereby exempts itself from and makes inapplicable to it K.S.A. 15-209 which applies uniformly only to cities of the third class, and elects to and hereby does provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter set out.

Section 2.         City employees and officers appointed pursuant to K.S.A. 15-209 may be non-residents of the city but shall be residents of this state.

(5-24-1982)