Section 1. EXEMPTION: The City, a city of the second class by the power invested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to, exempt and exempts itself from, and makes inapplicable to it, Section 79-1952 of the General Statutes Annotated of 1964 which is not applicable uniformly to all cities of the second class and the Legislature not having established classes of cities for the purpose of imposing tax limitations and prohibitions, and provides substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter provided.

Section 2. LEVY OF TAXES; PURPOSES: The Governing Body of the City is hereby authorized and empowered to levy taxes in each year for the following City purposes, but said Governing Body shall not fix a rate of levy in any one year on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of the City in excess of the following rates:

General Operating Fund, which shall include the following activities:

General Government; Police Department; Fire Department; health and sanitation including refuse collection and disposal; highways (all public traveled ways including bridges); sewer maintenance; sewage treatment and disposal; parks; cemeteries; street lighting; airport; forestry; civil defense; planning; recreation; library, and band, forty (40) mills. Provided, that any revenues derived from the motor fuel taxes shall be budgeted to the credit of the Highway Department of said General Operating Fund and shall be used exclusively for the purpose for which received; provided, that the aggregate of all City-wide tax levies of such City, except levies for the payment of bonds and interest thereon, and levies for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, and levies authorized by other Statutes to be outside the aggregate are hereby limited to forty (40) mills on each dollar of assessed tangible valuation of such City.

(07-24-1967)