Chapter 12, CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES

12-1610e. Same; membership in, when; instrumentality; powers; act supplemental. Any city in the state of Kansas may have membership in the league of Kansas municipalities by action of the governing body and payment of the annual membership dues and subscriptions. The league of Ka…

12-1610f. Same; city delegates; powers and duties. The governing body of each member city may elect city delegates from among the city's officers to represent the city in the conduct and management of the affairs of the league of Kansas municipalities. Such city delegates shall h…

12-1610g. Same; powers exercised through instrumentality; limitation on liability; custody of files upon termination. The member cities of the league of Kansas municipalities acting by and through such instrumentality and in its name shall have power to purchase, or to receive by…

12-1613. Property of dormant cities. Whenever the municipal organization of any city has become dormant by resignation or vacation of all city offices therein, it shall be the duty of the township board of the township where such city is located to take charge of all the property…

12-1614. Same; election of officers; delivery of property to mayor. Upon the petition of twenty (20) resident citizens of any dormant city, it shall be the duty of the township board to refer the same to the county election officer and city officers shall be elected at the next r…

12-1615. Donations of property for hospital purposes; board of trustees, membership, terms of office, vacancies; administrator contracts; pension and deferred compensation plans for employees; contracts insuring employees and dependents; expenditure of funds for recruitment or re…

12-1616a. Construction and operation of dams across streams or rivers by cities; maintenance and police regulation. Any city shall have and is hereby vested with full power and authority to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation a site or sites and to own, construct, maintain …

12-1616b. Same; approval of plans by chief engineer before bonds issued. The governing body of any such city shall be the sole judge of the location, size, type of construction and all other details of any such dams subject only to the approval of the plans and specifications for…

12-1616c. Dams across streams or rivers; issuance of general obligation bonds; approval of electors required, when; resolution, protest petition; bonds not within debt limitation. Cities shall have power to issue general obligation bonds to pay the cost of any lands acquired and …

12-1617. Farm and aquaculture products; peddler's license or permit; fee. (a) As used in this section, "fee" means any license or occupation fee, charge or tax, vending or peddling fee, charge or tax, transient merchant license fee, charge or tax or any other similar fee, charge …

12-1617a. Delegates to firemen's association and school. The governing body of any Kansas municipality is hereby authorized to determine the number of delegates to be sent by its fire department to the annual meetings of the Kansas State Firemen's Association and to a firemen's s…

12-1617c. Dissolution of certain inoperative sewer districts located wholly within cities. Whenever the county clerk shall petition the board of county commissioners to disorganize and dissolve a sewer district located wholly within a city in the county, and it shall appear from …

12-1617d. Dissolution of certain inoperative cemetery districts located wholly within cities. Whenever the county clerk shall petition the board of county commissioners to disorganize and dissolve a cemetery district located wholly within a city in the county, and it shall appear…

12-1617e. Abatement of nuisances; notice; assessment and collection of costs; procedure; disposition of motor vehicles. (a) The governing body of any city may have removed or abated from any lot or parcel of ground within the city any and all nuisances, including rank grass, weed…

12-1617f. Weeds, removal or destruction; assessment and collection of costs; notice; procedure. (a) The governing body of any city is hereby authorized to provide for and require the cutting or destruction of all weeds on lots or pieces of land within the city. Except as provided…

12-1617g. Ordinances on nuisances. The governing body of any city is hereby granted the power to pass and adopt all ordinances that are necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of such ordinances not i…

12-1617h. Securing industries in or near cities; tax levy, use of proceeds; election required; resubmission, when; use of general fund or other revenue sources. Cities are hereby authorized to levy annually upon all the taxable tangible property within the city a tax for the purp…

12-1617i. Same; fund. All moneys collected by virtue of the tax authorized by K.S.A. 12-1617h, and amendments thereto, shall be placed in a fund known as an "industrial development fund," and shall be used by the governing body of such city for the purpose of inducing industries …

12-1633. Railways and street railways; crossings; construction of viaducts or tunnels; regulation of speed; appraisement and payment of damages; liens; actions; penalties. The governing body of cities of the first and second class shall have the power to regulate the crossings of…

12-1634. Same; cities in counties of over 90,000 population; regulation of speed; bond issue. The governing body of all cities of the first and second class in a county having a population of over 90,000 shall have the power to regulate the crossings of railway and street-railway…

12-1651. Official newspaper in cities of second and third classes; qualifications. (a) The governing body of each city of the second and third class shall designate by resolution a newspaper to be the official city newspaper. Once designated the newspaper shall be the official ci…

12-1654. Oil and gas leases; moneys to general fund. The governing body of any city of the second or third class is hereby authorized and empowered to lease any lands owned by such city which are located outside the corporate limits of such city for drilling for oil and gas, upon…

12-1655. Same; validation of prior leases. Any lease such as described in K.S.A. 12-1654 which has been made by a city of the second class prior to the effective date of this act is hereby legalized and validated. History: L. 1945, ch. 106, § 2; March 17.

12-1658. Historical collections; housing and display. The governing body of any city of any class may provide for the collection of records, documents and any other papers or articles of any nature of historical value or interest and may establish, maintain, display and provide h…

12-1659. Same; supervisor or curator; compensation. Such governing body which has established an historical collection as provided in this act, may appoint and fix the compensation of a supervisor or curator for such historical collection. If such supervisor or curator is a perso…

12-1660. Same; historical society as supervisor or curator, when; compensation. If there is within the city or county in which such historical collection as provided in this act is established, an organized historical society, such society may be designated by the governing body …

12-1661. Same; tax levy, use of proceeds. In order to provide funds to carry out the provisions of this act and to pay a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued by such city under the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, the governing body of any cit…

12-1662. Federal aid to public agencies; definitions. For the purposes of this act: (a) "Public agency" means any county, township, city, school district and special district of any kind of the state of Kansas having the power to levy taxes. (b) "Local program" means any study, p…

12-1663. Expenditures of federal aid by public agencies; expenditures of grants, gifts and other income by school districts; budget requirements, exceptions. (a) Where any public agency receives federal aid through any federal agency for any purpose to be used alone or with funds…

12-1664. Same; issuance of temporary notes or no-fund warrants to finance portion of program to be paid by federal aid, when; election requirements; written commitment as to federal aid; temporary financing of federal share from current funds; purpose of act; bonded debt limitati…

12-1665. Same; temporary notes; refunding notes; sale or exchange. Temporary notes shall be authorized by ordinance if by a city or by resolution if by other public agency, but if all are not issued at the same time, each issue consuming a part of the total amount authorized by t…

12-1666. Same; no-fund warrants; authorization for issuance; interest; conditions; form; issuance and sale; redemption; notice. The governing body of a public agency shall authorize each issue of no-fund warrants by resolution which states the amount to be covered by the warrants…

12-1667. Same; tax levies; outside aggregate limits. A public agency required herein to levy a tax because of failure of federal aid, shall make such annual levy as is necessary to pay the refunding temporary notes or no-fund warrants and the interest thereon and such tax levies …

12-1668. Same; act not exclusive. Nothing in this act shall prohibit a public agency from issuing temporary notes as provided by K.S.A. 10-123 or otherwise legally financing the cost of a local program and when reimbursed with federal aid paying such notes or crediting the aid to…

12-1669. Submission of budgets to county commissioners by certain taxing districts in urban area counties. In addition to the procedures and requirements now provided by law for the approval and adoption of budgets, the authorizing of tax levies and the making of capital improvem…

12-1670. Same; approval or disapproval; resubmission, when. If upon receipt of any proposed budget, tax levy, or improvement proceeding, the board of county commissioners of such county shall approve the same and the board shall certify such approval in writing to the governing b…

12-1671. Certain investments; exception to cash-basis law. Investments and time deposit certificates authorized by law and held by municipalities as defined in K.S.A. 10-1101 shall be considered cash for purposes of the cash-basis law. History: L. 1967, ch. 95, § 1; July 1.

12-1672. Certain investments; exception to budget law. Moneys disbursed by such municipalities for investments and time deposit certificates authorized by law shall not be considered expenditures for purposes of the budget law. History: L. 1967, ch. 95, § 2; July 1.

12-1672a. Public agencies authorized to offer rewards for information related to criminal acts; definitions. (a) As used in this act, public agency means any county, township, city, town, school district, community junior college, library district, road district, drainage or leve…

12-1673. Work performed by city upon failure to perform duties imposed by law or ordinance; costs, how collected; limitation on actions. (a) The governing body of any city located in a county designated an urban area as authorized by the Kansas constitution, in addition to any ot…

12-1674. Same; special services fund; use; no-fund warrants. Any such city which has or proposes to provide services and to charge costs of the work in connection therewith under the authority of this act may by ordinance establish a "special services fund" in the city treasury. …

12-1674a. Service fees and charges; certain cities prohibited from imposing upon persons not receiving service. In all counties with population of not less than one hundred seventy-five thousand (175,000) and not more than two hundred fifteen thousand (215,000) no city shall make…

12-1675. Investment of public moneys by governmental subdivisions, units and entities; conditions, requirements and limitations; reciprocal deposit programs. (a) The governing body of any county, city, township, school district, area vocational-technical school, community college…

12-1675a. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 12-1675, 12-1676, 12-1677, 12-1677a and 12-1677b, and amendments thereto: (a) "Bank" means any bank incorporated under the laws of this state or any other state, or organized under the laws of the United States which has a main or branch o…

12-1675b. Investment advisers prohibited from engaging in a public moneys investment transaction directly related to the financial product for which the investment advisor is providing or has provided advice; definitions. (a) An investment adviser that executes bids for the inves…

12-1676. Inapplicability of act to certain moneys; rates. Except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 12-1678a, and amendments thereto, the provisions of this act authorizing the investment of moneys shall not apply to moneys collected or received by a county for apportionment, credit…

12-1676a. Weekly advisory memorandum as to rates of interest to county treasurers. The state treasurer shall issue a weekly advisory memorandum to county treasurers concerning rates of interest to be paid under this act. History: L. 1974, ch. 394, § 3; March 14.

12-1677. Investment of public moneys by governmental entities, units and subdivisions; use of income; records; quarterly report. (a) Except as otherwise required by state or federal law, all moneys earned and collected from investments by counties, area vocational-technical schoo…

12-1677a. Municipal investment pool fund; investments; requirements; proof of compliance; rules and regulations. (a) Moneys deposited by any municipality with the state treasurer for investment authorized in K.S.A. 12-1675(b)(5), and amendments thereto, shall be deposited in the …

12-1677b. Direct investments by cities, counties and school districts, when; requirements; forfeiture of investment rights, when; anual report to the legislature. (a) The governing body of any city, county or school district that has a written investment policy approved by the go…