A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF BONNER SPRINGS, KANSAS, FROM THE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 17‑4756(a) AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, RELATING TO THE EXERCISE OF URBAN RENEWAL POWERS BY CITIES.

Section 1. The City of Bonner Springs, Kansas, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from, and make inapplicable to it, the provisions of K.S.A. 17‑4756(a) and provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter set forth in this ordinance.

Such referenced provision is either an enactment or a part thereof which is applicable to this City, but is not applicable uniformly to all cities.

Section 2. (a) A municipality may itself exercise its urban renewal project powers (as herein defined) or may, if the Governing Body of the municipality by resolution determines such action to be in the public interest, elect to have such powers exercised by the urban renewal agency created by K.S.A. 17‑4757, except the powers listed in K.S.A. 17‑4748(h). In the event the Governing Body of the municipality makes such determination, the urban renewal agency shall be vested with all of the urban renewal powers in the same manner as though all such powers were conferred on such agency or authority instead of the municipality. The Governing Body of any municipality which has elected to have such powers exercised by an urban renewal agency may, when it shall deem such action to be in the best interest of the municipality, by resolution divest such agency of the powers previously conferred upon it and restore such powers to the municipality. The Governing Body electing to divest any urban renewal agency of urban renewal project powers and to exercise the same shall assume, on behalf of the municipality, all debts, contracts and obligations lawfully incurred or entered into by the urban renewal agency due in the periods such powers were exercised by such agency.

(12‑17‑74)