State ex rel. Brewster v. Bentley

Citations

• 100 Kan. 399
• 164 P. 290
• 1917 Kan. LEXIS 337

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Government op Cities — “City Manager Plan” — Statute Constitutional and Valid. The act of the legislature entitled “An act relating to the government of all cities in Kansas, and to establish an optional form of government,” approved February 17, 1917, is a valid and constitutional enactment, so far as its operation and effect is challenged in this action.</p> <p>2. Same — City Election — Requisites of Petition Therefor. The provision in the act which requires the mayor to call a special election to submit to the electors the question of the adoption of the new form of government upon the filing of a petition “signed by not less than “twenty-five per cent of the total number of legally qualified electors voting for mayor at .the last preceding city election” is construed to mean that the petition must be signed by twenty-five per cent of the number of legally qualified votes cast for mayor at the last election, without reference to the individuals who cast them.</p>