14-696. Same; budget; tax levy; revenues.
In addition to the certification of January under the provisions of K.S.A. 14-605, the board of hospital trustees shall, on or before the tenth day of July of each year, file with the governing body of the city a budget for the ensuing budget year, which shall be the ensuing calendar year, and shall accompany such budget with a condensed budget to be published as a part of the regular city budget. At the hearing on the regular city budget there shall be a hearing on the hospital budget, and all persons within the hospital territory may appear at the hearing and be heard. The budget may be modified and reduced but not increased before final adoption and the budget may be adopted by the hospital board immediately after the hearing or afterward. A copy of the adopted budget shall be certified by the chairman and secretary to the governing body of the city.
The governing body of the city shall make a tax levy not exceeding one-half mill, according to the requirements of the budget, for hospital purposes, and such levy shall be extended by the county clerk over the entire hospital territory within the county and such levy shall not be included within the total aggregate tax levy limit of the city. Where the added territory extends into an adjacent county the city clerk shall certify the hospital levy to the county clerk of the adjacent county and he or she shall extend the levy on all the tangible taxable property of such territory in his or her county. Upon the receipt of the revenue provided by such levy from the county treasurer or treasurers the city treasurer shall turn the money over to the treasurer of the board of hospital trustees, taking his or her receipt therefor.
History: L. 1949, ch. 166, § 4; April 5.