{"content":[{"text":"\"2.","bbox":{"left":0.154998,"top":0.171359,"width":0.03541,"height":0.018923999999999996}},{"text":"Whether the board of county commissioners have \n total control of the budget, and whether the \n powers they have regarding the budget permits \n the board to hire or fire elected officials and \n their office personnel.","bbox":{"left":0.210902,"top":0.169529,"width":0.557459,"height":0.08009699999999997}},{"text":"\"3.","bbox":{"left":0.155818,"top":0.261636,"width":0.03541,"height":0.018923999999999996}},{"text":"Whether the board of county commissioners may \n determine what time elected officials are to \n report to work.\"","bbox":{"left":0.212457,"top":0.260122,"width":0.5311480000000001,"height":0.05010999999999999}},{"text":"We understand that the meetings you wish to attend are those \n held by various groups for county clerks which provide train- \n ing and information relevant to their official duties and for \n which a fee is charged.","bbox":{"left":0.094426,"top":0.320729,"width":0.723116,"height":0.06526100000000001}},{"text":"To determine whether the deputy clerk is required to remain \n in the office while the clerk is away attending a meeting, \n we first look to the statute which pertains to the deputy \n county clerk. K.S.A. 19-302 states in pertinent part:","bbox":{"left":0.095982,"top":0.396801,"width":0.697624,"height":0.064946}},{"text":"\"Every such clerk shall appoint a deputy . . \n and such deputy, in case of the absence or \n disability of such clerk, or in case of a \n vacancy in his office, shall perform all the \n duties of such clerk during such absence, or \n until such vacancy shall be filled.\"","bbox":{"left":0.156967,"top":0.472874,"width":0.5205750000000001,"height":0.09493400000000007}},{"text":"While the statute states that the deputy \"shall\" perform all \n duties during the absence of the clerk, in those few Kansas \n Supreme Court cases which discuss the duties of the deputy \n clerk, the court has interpreted the statute as permitting \n the deputy clerk to perform the clerk's duties. There is no \n indication from the court that the deputy clerk is required \n to perform the clerk's duties in all cases of absence, dis- \n ability or vacancy. See, Amrine and Russell v. K.P.R.R. Co., \n 7 Kan. 179 (1871); Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad \n Co. v. Morris, 7 Kan. 136 (1871); Whitford v. Lynch, 10 Kan. \n 180 (1872). As the Kansas Supreme Court stated in Paul v. \n City of Manhattan, 212 Kan. 381 (1973),","bbox":{"left":0.098361,"top":0.578934,"width":0.722375,"height":0.18527700000000014}},{"text":"\"'Shall' is frequently read to mean 'may' \n where the context requires . . . As we said \n in City of Hutchinson v. Ryan, 154 Kan. 751 \n . . . . 'In determining whether statutory pro- \n visions are mandatory or directory, it is a \n general rule that where strict compliance with \n the provision is essential to the preserva- \n tion of the rights of parties affected and to","bbox":{"left":0.160492,"top":0.77559,"width":0.546146,"height":0.12555100000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}