Chapter 10, BONDS AND WARRANTS

10-809. Warrant register; custody. Every municipal treasurer, shall upon the expiration of his or her term of office deliver to his or her successor the warrant register containing the list of warrants or warrant checks originally recorded and countersigned, and presented and reg…

10-810. Execution of unlawful or irregular warrants or warrant checks; penalties. Any officer of any municipality who shall sign or attest any warrant or warrant check not duly authorized by the proper governing body, and any treasurer who shall sign any warrant or warrant check …

10-811. Cancellation of state warrants; when warrant may be canceled; records of cancellation. (a) In every case in which the director of accounts and reports shall have drawn a warrant against the state treasurer and a period of one year shall have elapsed since the issuance of …

10-813. Same; nonpayment of warrant for lack of funds tolls time period for cancellation. In case any warrant has been presented to the state treasurer prior to the time the warrant could be canceled pursuant to K.S.A. 10-811, and amendments thereto, and has been stamped "not pai…

10-813a. Cancelled warrants issued pursuant to KPERS act; disbursement of fund; payment to certain claimants, limitations. (a) Any balance accrued from any unpaid canceled warrant issued pursuant to the Kansas public employees retirement act shall remain in the Kansas public empl…

10-815. Cancellation of certain county warrants; balances. (a) On and after July 1, 1947, and in every case occurring heretofore and hereafter, in which the county boards of commissioners or the county boards of social welfare, as the case may be, shall have issued a warrant agai…

10-816. Cancellation of certain city warrants; balances. (a) On and after July 1, 1957, and in every case occurring heretofore or hereafter, in which the governing body of any city shall have issued a warrant against the city treasurer and a period of two (2) years shall have ela…

10-1001. Bonds to be lien on realty. All bonds heretofore or hereafter legally authorized and issued by a vote of its electors in any county or township, shall become and be a lien upon all the real estate in such county or township for the payment of the principal and interest o…

10-1002. Change of boundary as affecting taxation to pay bonds previously issued. No person or property hereafter attached by a change of boundary lines to any county or township wherein any bonds previously authorized by a vote of the electors of such county or township shall ha…

10-1003. Property detached by such change. All real estate heretofore or hereafter detached by a change of boundary lines from any county or township wherein any bonds shall have been previous to such change of boundary lines, legally authorized and issued by a vote of the electo…

10-1004. Taxes upon detached realty. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of every county from which any real estate shall be detached, as soon as it shall be determined, to certify to the county clerk of any county to which any such real estate shall have been attached, the …

10-1005. Cancellation of bonds after final judgment. All county, township and municipal bonds on which final judgment shall hereafter be rendered by any court of record in this state, shall be canceled in open court, and returned by the clerk of such court to the clerk of the pro…

10-1006. Sinking fund used to purchase bonds. Whenever any county, city, township or school district in this state shall owe any outstanding and unmatured bonds, and at the same time shall have in its treasury any sinking funds raised to pay such bonds, the proper officers of suc…

10-1007a. Annual statement of indebtedness of municipality to county clerk; contents; deadlines. (a) The clerk, secretary or other recording officer of each municipality shall furnish to the county clerk, on or before July 31 of each year, a statement of the indebtedness of the m…

10-1008. Bonds as claim against property. All bonds that have heretofore been or may hereafter be legally authorized and issued by a vote of the electors in any township in this state shall be a claim against all the property, personal and real, in said township, for the payment …

10-1009. Municipal bonds or obligations; interest rates; limitation. (a) The maximum stated rate of interest which may be fixed on fixed-rate bonds issued by a municipality or taxing subdivision of the state of Kansas shall be determined on the day the bonds are sold and shall no…

10-1010. Certain terms construed to mean "state treasurer." Whenever in the statutes of this state the words "state auditor" or "auditor of state," or words of like effect, occur, and the statute relates to general obligation or revenue bonds or to temporary notes, such words sha…

10-1101. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this act, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (a) "Municipality" means any county, town…

10-1102. Citation of act; cash basis for municipalities. (a) K.S.A. 10-1101 through 10-1122, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the cash-basis law. (b) All municipalities are required to pay or refinance their valid indebtedness as provided in the cash-bas…

10-1112. Issuance of warrants and other evidences of indebtedness unlawful. Unless otherwise provided in this act, it shall be unlawful after May 1, 1933, for the governing body of any municipality to create any indebtedness in excess of the amount of funds actually on hand in th…

10-1113. Creating indebtedness in excess of funds unlawful; exceptions. Unless otherwise provided in this act, it shall be unlawful after May 1, 1933, for any member of any governing body of any municipality to knowingly vote for or in any manner aid or promote the passage or ado…

10-1114. Clerks not to issue or sign orders. Unless otherwise provided in this act, it shall be unlawful after May 1, 1933, for the clerk or secretary of any governing body of any municipality to knowingly issue, attest, sign or countersign any order, warrant, check or other evid…

10-1115. Treasurers not to pay orders. Unless otherwise provided in this act, it shall be unlawful after May 1, 1933, for the treasurer of any municipality to knowingly pay any order, warrant, check or other evidence of indebtedness out of the treasury of such municipality in exc…

10-1116. Limits of indebtedness may be exceeded, when; creating indebtedness in violation of act unlawful. (a) The limits of indebtedness prescribed under the provisions of article 11 of chapter 10 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated may be exceeded when: (1) Payment has been author…

10-1116a. Cash-basis law; exemptions. The limitations on expenditures imposed under the cash-basis law shall not apply to: (a) Expenditures in excess of current revenues made for municipally owned and operated utilities out of the fund of such utilities caused by, or resulting fr…

10-1116b. Lease, lease-purchase or installment-purchase agreements; agreements for electric interconnection or transmission facilities; when allowed under cash-basis law. Nothing in the provisions of K.S.A. 10-1101 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall prohibit a municipality fr…

10-1116c. Lease-purchase agreements; conditions; protest petition and election, when. Any lease-purchase agreement entered into pursuant to this act shall be subject to the following conditions: (a) If the proposed agreement is for a term exceeding the current fiscal year of the …

10-1117. Clerk or secretary; record of moneys; contracts and indebtedness of municipality; records of orders, warrant checks; exhibition of records upon request; notice. The clerk or secretary of every municipality shall keep a record of the amount of money in the treasury and ea…

10-1118. Treasurer; record of moneys on hand and in each fund; exhibition of record or statement in writing. The treasurer of every municipality shall keep a record of the amount of money on hand in the treasury, which record shall show at all times the amount of money in each pa…

10-1119. Void contracts and orders. Any contract entered into between the governing body of any municipality and any person, which violates the provisions of this act, shall be void, and any order, warrant, check or other evidence of indebtedness drawn on the treasurer of any mun…

10-1120. Excess tax levying not basis of protest. The levying of a tax by any municipality which raises more money than is used or needed for the tax year shall not be the basis of a protest by any taxpayer and all such protests shall be of no force or effect. History: L. 1933, c…

10-1121. Penalties for violations. Any member of any governing body of any municipality or any clerk or secretary or treasurer of any governing body of any such municipality who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and…

10-1122. Invalidity of part. Should the courts declare any section, clause or provision of this act unconstitutional, the decision shall affect only the section, clause or provision so declared to be unconstitutional, and shall not affect any other section, clause or provision of…

10-1201. Definitions. "Municipality" as used in this act means a municipality as defined in K.S.A. 10-101, and amendments thereto. "Utility" as used in this act means any publicly owned utility, instrumentality or facility of a revenue producing character including but not limite…

10-1202. Issuance, when; revenues; additional bonds; revenue bonds to construct electric generation facilities in certain first-class cities joining with privately owned utility; contracts or agreements; source of bond payment. (a) Any municipality authorized by the laws of the s…

10-1203. Duplication of existing utility services; approval and finding by corporation commission. No municipality, as herein defined, shall issue revenue bonds to acquire, construct, reconstruct, alter, repair, improve, extend or enlarge any plant or facilities for the furnishin…

10-1204. Revenue fund; use; application of K.S.A. 12-825d and 13-1269 through 13-1274. Revenue derived from the operation of any utility financed in whole or in part by revenue bonds authorized by this act shall be paid into the treasury of the municipality or into the treasury o…

10-1205. Liens on revenues of utilities; recitals; negotiability. Such revenue bonds are hereby made a lien on the revenues produced from such utility, which revenues may be pledged for the benefit of bondholders to a trustee under a trust agreement, but such bonds shall not be a…

10-1207. Revenue bonds; terms; disposition of excess funds. Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this act may have serial or term maturities, but the date of maturity on the bonds shall not be fixed for a longer period of time than 40 years after the date of issuance. The…

10-1208. Rates, fees and charges; depreciation or renewal and replacement fund; reserve fund; annual audit, filing; billing and collection of sewer service charges; discontinuance of water service. (a) The governing body or other proper officers having the control and management …

10-1210. Publication of intended improvements; protest; election. The governing body, by a two-thirds vote of the members thereof, or where the utilities are under the control and management of a board of public utilities, said board by a three-fifths vote thereof, may contract f…

10-1211. Refunding of bonds. Any municipality governed by the provisions of this act having issued revenue bonds under this act or any previous authority may, from time to time, issue revenue bonds pursuant to the provisions of this act to refund any previous issue or part thereo…

10-1212. Act supplemental; election. The power herein granted to issue bonds shall be supplemental to and not amendatory of the provisions of K.S.A. 10-102 and shall be in addition to and independent of the authority granted to certain municipalities by K.S.A. 13-1238 to 13-1245,…

10-1213. Duties of governing bodies of municipalities having board of public utilities; elections; costs. In municipalities as defined herein, if the utilities plants thereof are under the control and management of a board of public utilities as provided by law, when three-fifths…