Chapter 12 — CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES

12-2833. Same; depreciation policy. To assure modern, attractive transportation service the board may establish a depreciation policy which makes provision for the continuous and prompt replacement of worn out and obsolete property and the board may make provision for such deprec…

12-2834. Operating expenses; damage reserve fund; liability insurance. The board shall withdraw from the gross receipts of the authority and charge to operating expenses such an amount of money as in the opinion of the board shall be sufficient to provide for the adjustment, defe…

12-2835. Special funds; creation; use. The authority pursuant to resolutions adopted from time to time by the board may establish and create such other and additional special funds as may be found desirable by the board and in and by such ordinances may provide for payments into …

12-2836. Limitation of actions for injuries; time for filing notice. No civil action shall be commenced in any court against the authority by any person for any injury to his or her person unless it is commenced within two years from the date that the injury was received or the c…

12-2837. Investigations by transit board; testimony. The board may investigate all means of transportation and the management thereof, the enforcement of its rules and regulations, and the action, conduct and efficiency of all officers, agents and employees of the authority. In t…

12-2838. Invalidity of part. If any provision of this act is held invalid such provision shall be deemed to be excised from this act and the invalidity thereof shall not affect any of the other provisions of this act. If the application of any provision of this act to any person …

12-2839. Adoption of ordinance; election required. The provisions of this act shall be adopted by ordinance at any regular meeting, adjourned meeting or special meeting called for such purpose. Any such ordinance shall not take effect unless and until the question of the approval…

12-2840. Reimbursement of motor-fuel and special fuel taxes paid, when; ordinance; payment from street fund. The governing body of any city may provide by ordinance for the reimbursement to any person, firm, or corporation of all or any part of the motor-fuel tax or the special f…

12-2901. Purpose of act. It is the purpose of this act to permit local governmental units to make the most efficient use of their powers by enabling them to cooperate with other localities, persons, associations and corporations on a basis of mutual advantage and thereby to provi…

12-2902. Short title. This act may be cited as the interlocal cooperation act. History: L. 1957, ch. 100, § 2; March 25. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Docume…

12-2903. Definitions. As used in the interlocal cooperation act: (a) "Public agency" means: (1) Any county, township, city, school district, library district, road district, drainage district, sewer district, water district or fire district; (2) any entity created pursuant to K.S…

12-2904. Interlocal agreements by public agencies; specifications; approval of attorney general, exceptions. (a) Subject to the limitations of subsection (g), any power or powers, privileges or authority exercised or capable of exercise by a public agency of this state including …

12-2904a. Same; powers and duration of separate legal entities created thereby; certain functions prohibited. (a) Any interlocal agreement entered into under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-2901 et seq., and amendments thereto, may authorize the creation of a separate legal entity to…

12-2905. Same; filing; status; damage or liability actions. Prior to its entry into force, an agreement made pursuant to this act shall be filed with the register of deeds of the county where such political subdivision or agency of the state government is located and with the sec…

12-2906. Same; additional approval of certain agreements; insurance-pooling agreements. In the event that an agreement made pursuant to this act shall deal in whole or in part with the provisions of services or facilities with regard to which an officer or agency of the state gov…

12-2907. Same; funds; property, personnel and service. Any public agency entering into an agreement pursuant to this act may appropriate funds and may sell, lease, give, or otherwise supply the administrative joint board or other legal administrative entity created to operate the…

12-2908. Contracts between certain municipalities. (a) When used in this act, "municipality" means a city, county, township, school district, library district, road district, water district, drainage district, sewer district, fire district, park and recreation district, recreatio…

12-2909. Same; enforcement of city ordinances by sheriff; sheriff's approval. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county and the governing body of any city located within the county may enter into a contract providing for the enforcement of the city's ordinances by the s…

12-2910. Interlocal agreements; community colleges; validation of agreements. Any interlocal agreement entered into by the board of trustees of a community college in accordance with the provisions of the interlocal cooperation act prior to the effective date of this act is hereb…

12-3001. Consideration at public meeting, when. All ordinances of a city shall be considered at a public meeting of the governing body except as otherwise herein provided or where a statute provides a different procedure for an ordinance for a specific purpose. History: L. 1959, …

12-3002. Vote by yeas and nays; majority of members-elect required. The vote on any ordinance, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be by yeas and nays, which shall be entered on the journal by the clerk. No ordinance shall be valid unless a majority of all the members-elec…

12-3003. Signing or veto of ordinances in council cities, exceptions; passage over veto; signing ordinances in commission cities; procedure; attestation; seal. The mayor of a council city shall have the power to sign or veto any ordinance passed by the council: Provided, That ord…

12-3004. Subject and title of ordinance; amendment. No ordinance shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title; and no section or sections of an ordinance shall be amended unless the amending ordinance contains the entire section or sections a…

12-3005. Style or ordaining clause. The style or ordaining clause of all ordinances shall be: "Be it ordained by the governing body of the city of ______________:" History: L. 1959, ch. 64, § 5; June 30. Attorney General's Opinions: City ordinances; style of ordaining clause; pet…

12-3006. Numbering. After an ordinance shall have been passed, the city clerk shall assign to it a number: Provided, That appropriation ordinances may be numbered in a separate series. History: L. 1959, ch. 64, § 6; June 30. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL Genera…

12-3007. Publication; effective date. (a) The city clerk shall cause all ordinances, except appropriation ordinances, as soon as practicable after they have been passed and signed, passed over the mayor's veto or will take effect without signature, to be published once in the off…

12-3008. Ordinance books; certifications by city clerk. The city clerk shall keep an "ordinance book" in which shall be entered at length in plain and distinct handwriting or typewriting or printed copy, a copy of every ordinance immediately after its publication, or in the case …

12-3009. Subjects which may be incorporated in ordinance by reference. Any city is hereby authorized and empowered to incorporate in an ordinance by reference, in the manner hereinafter provided, any standard or model code or ordinance, regulation having the effect of law of a st…

12-3010. Effect of incorporation by reference; requirements for incorporation and omission; marked copies to city clerk and officials. The provisions of any standard or model code or ordinance, state regulation or statute or portions thereof incorporated in an ordinance by refere…

12-3011. Penalty provisions for incorporating ordinances. All such incorporating ordinances shall include a penal section or sections within the limits authorized by law to be provided for the violation of the ordinances of the city: Provided, That if the incorporated code or ord…

12-3012. Amendment of standard, code or ordinance by sponsor after incorporation by references; effect. The amendment of any standard or model code or ordinance or the publication of any new and revised such code or ordinance by the agency, organization, or group sponsoring the s…

12-3013. Petition for proposed ordinance; requirements; passage or election; form of ballot; approval, effect; amendment or repeal; publication. (a) Except as provided in subsection (e), a proposed ordinance may be submitted to the governing body of any city accompanied by a peti…

12-3014. Authorization; publication; supplements; recodifications. The governing body of the city may from time to time provide for the compilation or revision and codification (such revision and codification hereinafter referred to as codification and when published called code)…

12-3015. "Compilation" and "codification" defined; ordinance books; loose-leaf supplements. The following terms shall have the meanings herein prescribed: (a) "Compilation" includes the collecting, assembling and organizing of existing ordinances of the city and publication there…

12-3016. Expense budgeted over two-year or three-year period, when. The governing body may, if the expense of the compilation or codification and publication to be done in one (1) year will exceed the amount that can be budgeted for such purpose in one (1) year, budget over a per…

12-3017. Validity of ordinance not affected by repeal of statute under which passed. The repeal of any statute, or section or sections of any statute, under which an ordinance of any city was passed shall not affect the validity of the ordinance if such ordinance could be passed …

12-3101. Name of act. This act shall be known as the water pollution act. History: L. 1959, ch. 87, § 1; June 30. Law Review and Bar Journal References: "Fifteen Years of Home Rule in Kansas Municipalities," Murray E. Anderson, 16 W.L.J. 360, 368 (1977). CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Purpo…

12-3102. Definitions. For the purpose of this act, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section: (a) "Sewer" or "sewer system" shall mean sanitary and storm sewers, pumping stations, sewage treatment plants, main sewers, intercepting sew…

12-3103. Adoption of resolution by municipality and secretary of health and environment; contents. No municipality shall exercise any of the powers hereafter conferred by this act until its local governing body and the secretary of health and environment shall have adopted a reso…

12-3104. Sewer systems; powers of municipality. Every municipality shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to plan, alter, enlarge, extend, improve, construct, reconstruct, develop, redevelop, operate and maintain a sewer system of such municipality, including the follo…

12-3105. Same; rules and regulations authorized; billing and collection of sewer service charges; discontinuance of water service, when. The governing body of a municipality shall have the power by ordinance or resolution to adopt rules and regulations providing for the managemen…

12-3106. Issuance of sewer system revenue bonds; requirements; election. (a) A municipality shall have power to issue revenue bonds from time to time in its discretion to finance the planning, altering, enlarging, extending, improving, developing, and redeveloping, construction a…

12-3107. Same; power to issue bonds supplemental and additional. The power herein granted to issue bonds shall be supplemental to and not amendatory of the provisions of all other laws, and shall be in addition to and independent of the authority granted to certain municipalities…

12-3201. Trees and shrubbery on streets and alleys; regulation; costs, special assessment. The governing body of any city is hereby authorized to regulate, by ordinance, the planting, maintenance, treatment and removal of trees and shrubbery upon all streets, alleys, avenues, bou…

12-3202. Same; municipal function; authority vested in park commissioners, when. The governing body of any city may provide for the planting, maintenance, treatment or removal of trees and shrubbery upon all streets, alleys, avenues, boulevards and public rights-of-way of the cit…

12-3203. History: L. 1961, ch. 72, § 3; L. 1970, ch. 69, § 14; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 494, § 39; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Sch…

12-3204. Treatment or removal of shrubbery, trees and materials in cities; payment of costs; notice. Whenever any competent city authority, or competent state or federal authority when requested by the governing body of the city, shall file with the governing body a statement in …

12-3205. Same; preventive measures or treatment by city, when; costs. The governing body of any city, when it appears that there is or is likely to be a general infection or infestation of the trees or shrubs within the city by tree or plant disease or insect pest or larvae resul…

12-3206. Same; no-fund warrants, when; tax levies. The governing body of any city, in the exercise of the power and authority herein granted for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of K.S.A. 12-3204 and 12-3205, and amendments thereto, from and after the effective date of…

12-3207. Same; title to and property in growing trees and shrubs in abutting owners; damage actions; injunctions. The owners of property abutting upon streets, avenues and boulevards in cities shall have such title to and property in growing trees, shrubbery and the parking situa…