Kansas Statutes 12-110d. Special fund for replacement of ambulance or emergency medical service equipment; transfer, use and budgeting of funds; municipality defined
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-110d
- Governing body: means and includes the board of county commissioners, the governing body of a city, the township board (trustee, clerk and treasurer), board of education or other governing body of a school district, board of trustees of a community junior college, board of regents of a municipal university, the body of a special district (such as a drainage, cemetery, fire or other) which has the power to create indebtedness and is charged with the duty of paying the same, and the board, bureau, commission, committee or other body of an independent agency of a parent unit. See Kansas Statutes 12-105a
- Money: means gold and silver coin, United States treasury notes, and other forms of currency in common use;
(b) "notes and other evidence of debt" means certificates evidencing shares of stock otherwise taxable to the owner or holder, notes, bonds, debentures, claims secured by deed, liquidated claims and demands for money, accounts receivable, and all written instruments, contracts or other writings evidencing, calling for, fixing or showing a fixed obligation, determined or determinable, at present or in the future, in favor of the holder thereof. See Kansas Statutes 12-1,102
- Municipality: means and includes county, township, city, school district of whatever name or nature, community junior college, municipal university, city, county or district hospital, drainage district, cemetery district, fire district, and other political subdivision or taxing unit, and including their boards, bureaus, commissions, committees and other agencies, such as, but not limited to, library board, park board, recreation commission, hospital board of trustees having power to create indebtedness and make payment of the same independently of the parent unit. See Kansas Statutes 12-105a
(a) The governing body of the municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer annually, by resolution, any funds received from a tax levy specifically authorized to be made for ambulance or emergency medical service, and subject to legal expenditure, which in the opinion of the governing body will not be needed for general operating expenses of the ambulance or emergency medical service in such year, to a special fund to be established for replacement of ambulance or emergency medical service equipment. Upon the adoption of such resolution, the amount provided in such resolution shall be transferred and credited to such special fund.
(b) All moneys credited to such special fund shall be used by such governing body for the replacement of ambulance or emergency medical service equipment and such fund shall not be subject to Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 79-2925 to 79-2936, inclusive, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. In making the budget of such governing body, the amounts credited to, and the amount on hand in, such special fund and the amounts expended therefrom shall be shown for the information of the taxpayers of the municipality.
(c) If the governing body of the municipality determines that all or part of the money which has been transferred to such special fund is not needed for the purposes for which it was transferred, the governing body is authorized and empowered by resolution to retransfer such amount not needed and such retransfer and expenditure thereof shall be subject to the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 79-2925 to 79-2936, inclusive, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
(d) For the purposes of this section, “municipality” means any city, county or other political subdivision operating ambulance service or emergency medical service.