Attorney General Opinion No. 1999-059

Download or read book Attorney General Opinion No. 1999-059 written by Carla J. Stovall and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation of an organized fire safety program is a legislative decision of a city's governing board. Determining the location of fire stations and whether to renovate existing fire stations or construct new fire stations so as to provide the best fire safety for a city involves administrative decisions of the city governing body. A petition proposing an ordinance which would establish the location of a fire station, therefore, is not authorized under K.S.A. 12-3013. Moreover, a petition authorized under K.S.A. 12-3013 must contain the question which petitioners seek to bring to an election. The question must be in the form of a question as it should appear upon the ballot. The petition may either set forth the proposed ordinance in its entirety or may include a title generally descriptive of the contents of the proposed ordinance. Finally, a petition authorized under K.S.A. 12-3013 must be filed with the county attorney for an opinion regarding the legality of the form of the question set forth in the petition. Cited herein: K.S.A. 12-3013; 25-3601; 25-3602; 71-501; K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 72-6433; K.S.A. 72-8801.