State of Kansas           )

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Rice County                )

I, Sandra Fankhauser, City Clerk of the City of Sterling, Rice County, Kansas do hereby certify that said city is a city of the second class of the commission-manager form of government under the statutes of Kansas; that this codification of the general ordinances of said city and the publication thereof in book form were ordered and authorized by the governing body by ordinance and in accordance therewith is entitled the “Code of the City of Sterling, Kansas,” that said codification was adopted as the “Code of the City of Sterling, Kansas,” by the governing body by Ordinance No. 2455 passed on the 19th day of May 2014, as authorized by K.S.A. 12-3015; that said ordinance and said codification of general ordinances as contained in this volume will take effect upon publication of 4 or more copies in book form; that the publication of 4 copies of this code in book form and said adoptive ordinance constitute due passage of this code and all general ordinances contained therein; that the codification and said adoptive ordinance as contained herein are true and correct copies; and that said publication imports absolute verity and is to be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof as provided by K.S.A. 12-3015.

I further certify that the “Code of the City of Sterling, Kansas,” and the matter therein contained will take effect and be in force from and after May 22, 2014 (date of publication of the codification ordinance in the newspaper).

Witness my hand and the seal of the City of Sterling, Kansas, at my office in Sterling, Kansas, this 20th day of May 2014.

/s/ Sandra Fankhauser                                      

Sandra Fankhauser, City Clerk