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Chapter 1 · Administration

Article 8. Revenue, Finance & Community Development

Sections 1-801 to 1-803 · 3 sections

1-801 City sales tax; 1% for general purposes.​

(a)A majority of the electors voting thereon having approved, at a special question election held on the 11th day of July 1989, the levying of a retailers' sales tax in the City of Conway Springs, as authorized by K.S.A. 12-187 et seq., as amended, there is hereby levied a city retailers' sales tax in the amount of one percent (1%) to take effect on the first day of October 1989.
(b)Except as may otherwise be provided by law, such tax shall be identical in its application and exemptions therefrom to the Kansas Retailers' Sales Tax Act and all laws and administrative rules and regulations of the Kansas Department of Revenue relating to the state retailers' sales tax shall apply to such city retailers' sales tax insofar as such laws and regulations may be made applicable. The services of the Department of Revenue shall be utilized to administer, enforce and collect such tax.

(Ord. 1193; Code 2021)

1-802 City sales tax; additional 1% for general purposes and 1% for city streets.​

The levy of (1) a one percent (1.0%) City-wide general purpose retailers' sales tax, the revenue from which will be applied to improve City streets and to other City infrastructure needs, and (2) a one percent (1.0%) City-wide special purpose retailers' sales tax, the revenue from which will be applied to improve City streets, are hereby authorized, with collection of the sales taxes to commence on April 1, 2024, and with the one percent (1.0%) special purpose retailers’ sales tax to improve City streets to expire after 10 years.

(Ord. 1922)

1-803 Administrative fees for outside collection.​

All bills which are determined to be a bad debt and turned over for outside collection, including the State of Kansas setoff program, shall be subject to a fee of twenty-five percent (25%) of the total of the delinquent amount. This bad debt administrative charge shall be applied after referral for collection by the collection administrator.

(Ord. 1934)