Chapter 15, CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS

15-914. Agreements for cooperation in ownership and maintenance of swimming pool; apportionment of costs, tax levies; contributions of governmental entities. The governing body of any city of the third class, the governing body of the county wherein such city is located and the g…

15-915. Same; issuance of bonds; petition and election, when. Whenever an agreement is entered into pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 15-914 and for the purposes stated therein, the governing body of the participating county shall issue and sell its general obligation bonds in…

15-1001. Survey of cemeteries; improvements. The governing body of any city governed by this act may purchase, hold and pay for, in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, lands not exceeding eighty acres, in one body, outside the limits of such city, for the purpose of burial of the …

15-1002. Cemetery lots; conveyance; regulation. Cemetery lots owned by such city shall be conveyed by certificates signed by the mayor and counter-signed by the clerk under the seal of the city, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot or l…

15-1003. Cemetery rules and regulations. The council may pass rules and ordinances, imposing penalties, and fines, not exceeding one hundred dollars, regulating, protecting and governing the cemetery, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereof, and punishing trespassers therein…

15-1008. Unlawful establishment or maintenance. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, society, association or church to establish or maintain a cemetery within the corporate limits of any city of the third class unless the governing body of such city shall adopt…

15-1009. Same; penalties. Any person, firm, corporation, society, association or church violating the provisions of K.S.A. 15-1008 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more than one thousa…

15-1010. Same; act inapplicable to established cemetery. The provisions of this act shall not apply to * person, firm, corporation, association, society or church which has established a cemetery within the corporate limits of a city of the third class prior to the effective date…

15-1012. Issuance of bonds for certain cemetery purposes; election. The governing body of any city of the third class having a city cemetery may issue bonds in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the purpose of purchasing an addition to such cemetery and th…

15-1013. Establishment of certain cemetery districts; petition; resolutions. Whenever it is proposed to create a cemetery district in any county in this state, which proposed cemetery district includes territory wherein an existing township cemetery is located, territory wherein …

15-1014. Same; board of directors; officers; compensation; expenditures. Upon the establishment of the said cemetery district, the township trustees of every township, a portion of which is included in said district, and the mayor of each third-class city located within said ceme…

15-1015. Same; conveyances to district; tax levies; election. (a) Subsequent to the establishment of the cemetery district and after the board has organized, the township board of any township owning a cemetery within the newly created district shall convey the township cemetery …

15-1016. Same; payment of funds to district treasurer. Upon the selection and qualification of the treasurer of the newly organized cemetery district, the township treasurer of any township conveying a township cemetery to the newly organized district, and the city treasurer of a…

15-1016a. Same; use of funds from sale of lots in certain districts. The board of directors of any cemetery district located in a county having a population of more than four thousand (4,000) and not more than five thousand (5,000) and an assessed tangible valuation of not more t…

15-1017. Same; attachment of land in another county; petition; tax levies; transfer of moneys. Land adjacent to an established cemetery district and not a part of any other organized cemetery district which lies in a county other than where the greater portion of the cemetery dis…

15-1018. Exclusion of territory from cemetery district located in certain cities; petition; county commissioners' duties. Whenever a petition signed by not less than fifty-one percent (51%) of the owners of property located in that portion of a cemetery district located within th…

15-1019. Same; tax levies for outstanding indebtedness. If at the time a petition is filed requesting the exclusion of territory from such cemetery district, such district has any outstanding indebtedness, the board of county commissioners shall in the order excluding such territ…

15-1117. Natural gas production and sale; acquisition of drilling site; contracts. Any city of the third class situated in a recognized and established natural gas field is hereby granted power and authority to acquire a drilling site by lease or purchase, and to drill upon said …

15-1118. Same; conditions. The drilling of a well as authorized in this act shall be upon the further conditions that some person shall be willing to enter into an agreement with the city whereby such person will drill and equip the well at such person's own expense, in the first…

15-1119. Same; acreage within or without city limits. If there be within the corporate limits of said city as many as 640 acres of land, some portion of which is available at a reasonable cost, either by lease or purchase, as a drill site, then the acreage attributable to such ga…

15-1120. Same; contracts for consolidation or unitization of land. If there shall be less than 640 acres of land within the corporate limits of said city, then the governing body of said city is hereby granted power and authority to join with others having the right to produce an…

15-1121. Same; election; resolution and order of governing body. No such gas well shall be commenced until after the question has been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of said city at a general city election or a special election held for that purpose, notice of whic…

15-1122. Same; effect of resolution, order and election; landowner may petition court; proceedings. The land area described in such resolution and order shall constitute the drilling unit, and the approval of the proposal to drill such gas well, as evidenced by the result of said…

15-1123. Leasing of municipal auditorium to patriotic organization; term. The governing body of any city of the third class, owning a municipal auditorium, is hereby authorized to lease all or any part of said auditorium to any patriotic organization, having a state and national …

15-1126. Sewage disposal plants in certain cities; special assessments; limitations. Any third-class city which is the county seat of a county having a population of more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) and less than six thousand (6,000) and an assessed valuation of tangib…

15-1127. Sewage disposal plants in certain cities; assessment of other taxing units; bonds and notes of other taxing units; terms. All assessments shall be levied by ordinance of the city and each other taxing unit assessed shall be notified in writing of the amount assessed agai…

15-1128. Same; bond and tax limitations inapplicable. Bonds issued under the authority of this act may be issued without a petition or election and without regard to limitations on bonded indebtedness of the issuing municipalities and taxing subdivisions; and taxes may be levied …

15-1146. Validation of sale and conveyance of land in city inundated by construction of reservoir. In any city of the third class which has, prior to the effective date of this act, been inundated in whole or in part as the result of the construction of any dam or reservoir by th…

15-11b01. City and surrounding area; organization; purposes. Any city of the third class together with an area surrounding such city of not more than six (6) miles square may be organized as a community building district for the maintenance, operation, improvement and equipping o…

15-11b02. Community building district; petition; order; public corporation. Upon the presentation to the board of county commissioners of the county in which such city and surrounding area are located, of a petition setting forth the boundaries of a proposed community building di…

15-11b03. Same; meeting; notice; chairman; election of directors; terms; powers and duties. Upon the establishment of said community building district the mayor of the city within such district shall cause a notice to be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a…

15-11b04. Same; acceptance of existing building; equipping and operation. A community building district organized under the provisions of this act is authorized to accept the conveyance of an existing community building owned by any individual, association or private or public co…

15-11b05. Same; annual meeting; notice; posting; special meetings. The annual meeting of the qualified electors of a community building district shall be held on the first Thursday of May each year. Notice of the annual meeting shall be given by the board of directors by one publ…

15-11b06. Same; persons entitled to vote at meetings. Any person who has been a bona fide resident of the community building district for thirty (30) days prior to any meeting, who possesses the qualifications of a voter under the general election laws of the state shall be entit…

15-11b07. Same; board of directors; terms; vacancies. Each community building district shall be governed by a board of seven (7) directors. At the first annual meeting seven (7) directors shall be elected by ballot for the following terms: Three (3) for a term of one (1) year and…

15-11b08. Same; organization; powers; bond of treasurer; expenditures. Immediately following the annual meeting of the district the board of directors shall organize by electing a chairman and vice-chairman from its membership and by electing from within or without its membership…

15-11b09. Same; powers and duties of board. The board of directors of the community building district shall: (a) Have full charge of the government, operation and maintenance of the community building; (b) make and adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations for the operation and ma…

15-11b10. Same; tax levies. The board of directors is authorized to determine and fix an annual tax to be levied by the community building district which shall not exceed one-half (½) mill on the dollar, for the purpose of maintaining and operating the community building and the …

15-11b11. Attachment of territory outside county; petition; order; notice; tax levies. Whenever a community building district has been organized within any county as authorized by K.S.A. 15-11b01 to 15-11b10, and amendments thereto, territory adjacent thereto but located in anoth…

15-11b12. Same; budget; filing with county clerks; tax levies; certification. The board of directors of any community building district to which territory has been attached as provided for in K.S.A. 15-11b11 shall annually file the budget of the building district with the clerk o…

15-11b13. Same; payment of tax moneys to treasurer of district. The county treasurers of each of the counties in which territory or attached territory of the district is located, shall, upon collection of the tax moneys provided for in K.S.A. 15-11b12, pay the same to the treasur…

15-11b14. Same; act supplemental to K.S.A. 15-11b01 through 15-11b10. This act shall be construed as supplemental to and a part of K.S.A. 15-11b01 to 15-11b10. History: L. 1963, ch. 132, § 4; April 30.

15-1201. When commission form applicable. All cities of the third class which shall adopt the provisions of this act, by a majority vote of all electors voting at a special election called for that purpose as hereinafter provided, shall be governed by the provisions of this act. …

15-1202. Powers exercised by board of commissioners. Each city governed by the provisions of this act shall be a body corporate and politic, and the powers hereby granted shall be exercised by the board of commissioners of such city as hereinafter set forth, and such board of com…

15-1302. Commissioners; terms. There shall be an election for commissioners in cities of the third class adopting this act. All commissioners shall have terms of four years, except commissioners elected in April, 1968, shall have terms expiring in 1973. Commissioners elected in t…

15-1304. Arrangement of names. The names of all candidates for mayor and commissioners and other elective offices of any city adopting the provisions of this act shall be arranged under the designation of the office, in alphabetical order, according to the surnames. History: L. 1…

15-1401. Qualifications of mayor and commissioners. The mayor and each of said commissioners shall be a citizen of the United States and a qualified elector of such city. History: L. 1913, ch. 128, § 7; R.S. 1923, § 15-1401; L. 1972, ch. 161, § 2; L. 1975, ch. 106, § 4; March 22.

15-1402. Holding other offices. Neither the mayor nor any commissioner shall be elected or appointed to any office created by, or the compensation of which was increased or fixed by, the board of commissioners while he or she was a member thereof, until the expiration of at least…

15-1404. Bond of mayor and commissioners. (a) The mayor and each of the commissioners, before entering upon the duties of the office, shall give a good and sufficient surety bond, to be executed by a bonding company authorized to do business in Kansas, payable to and for the use …

15-1405. Vacancy in office of mayor or commissioner. In case of any vacancy from any cause in the office of mayor or any commissioner, the remaining members of the board of commissioners, within 10 days after the happening of such vacancy, shall elect some suitable person to fill…