Chapter 17 — CORPORATIONS

17-1333a. Election of directors; vacancies. At the first annual meeting of cemetery districts, provided for by K.S.A. 17-1333, and amendments thereto, which occurs after the effective date of this act, directors shall be elected as follows: Two for terms of four years; one for a …

17-1334. Meetings of directors; election of officers; terms; bond of secretary-treasurer. That the directors of said cemetery association shall meet within thirty days after their election, and at all other times during their term of office when called by their president, who sha…

17-1335. Authority of association; issuance of bonds. (a) The district cemetery association shall have all the authority now provided by law for cemetery associations and corporations which shall specifically include but shall not be limited to the authorities granted by K.S.A. 1…

17-1335a. Reinvestment of title to lots under K.S.A. 17-1330; notice to nonresidents; publication. Whenever it shall be determined by the return of the sheriff of the county in which said cemetery is located, that the owner or owners of said lot or lots is not a resident of said …

17-1335b. Record of proceedings. All such notices with the proof of service or publication thereof, and all such resolutions adopted by the board of directors of said cemetery district shall be made a part of the records of said governing board. History: L. 1953, ch. 127, § 3; Ju…

17-1335c. Default by owners; action to determine title. If for thirty (30) days after completion of such service or publication the party or parties fail to conform with the demands of such resolution, the rights of such party or parties may be deemed abandoned, and thereupon sai…

17-1335d. Abandonment by grantee or holder. In all such cases the fact that such grantee or holder has not, for a term fifteen (15) successive years or more, observed the regulations of the board of directors of such cemetery district shall be prima facie evidence that such party…

17-1335e. Judgment may be recorded. A certified copy of the judgments in such actions quieting title may be filed in the office of the register of deeds in and for the county in which said parcel is situated. History: L. 1953, ch. 127, § 6; June 30. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE CO…

17-1335f. Description; ingress and egress. Such notice and all proceedings had pursuant to this act in relation to any such cemetery lots, shall distinctly describe by metes and bounds the portion of such cemetery lot unused for burial purposes; and such cemetery district is here…

17-1335g. Perpetual care contracts exempt. This act shall not apply to any lot or lots in any cemetery where a perpetual care contract has been entered into between such cemetery and the owner of such lot. History: L. 1953, ch. 127, § 8; June 30. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORD…

17-1335h. Title reinvested; reconveyance, when. Compliance with the terms of this act shall as fully reinvest the cemetery district with, and divest the record owner and his descendants of, the title to such portion of such cemetery lot unused for burial purposes, as though the s…

17-1335i. Annexation of territory to districts; procedure. Whenever a petition describing the territory sought to be annexed to a cemetery district organized and operating under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-1330, 17-1330a, 17-1331, 17-1332, 17-1333, 17-1334 and 17-1335, and amendm…

17-1336. Cemetery districts in certain counties; tax levies; road improvement. That in any cemetery district organized or created under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-1330 through 17-1335, and amendments thereto, which is located in a county having a population of not less than eigh…

17-1336a. Road completion fund; transfer of surplus money for machinery and equipment; limitation. (a) The board of directors of any cemetery district created pursuant to the provisions of article 13 of chapter 17 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, is hereb…

17-1337. Directors; election; terms; vacancies. Such cemetery district shall be governed by a board of five directors. At the first annual meeting five directors shall be elected as follows: Two for a term of four years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of two years,…

17-1338. Permanent maintenance fund; use and investment. Any such cemetery district may receive, acquire and hold donations or bequests for a permanent fund, the income from which shall be used by such cemetery district in defraying the expenses incurred in keeping the lots and g…

17-1339. Control of permanent fund; custodian. The board of directors of such cemetery district shall have entire control of raising such permanent fund, the loaning of the same, and collecting and disbursing the income therefrom. The treasurer shall be custodian of such fund. Hi…

17-1340. History: L. 1939, ch. 156, § 3; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 198, § 1; June 30. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents …

17-1341. Conveyance of city cemetery; ordinance. That any city located within the boundaries of any such cemetery district which is operating and maintaining a city cemetery, if so requested in writing by the board of directors of such cemetery district, may by ordinance duly pas…

17-1342. Establishment by city of second or third class and townships. Any city of the second or third class is hereby authorized to join with any one or more townships or portions of one or more townships in the maintenance and improvement of any cemetery within such city or tow…

17-1343. Petition to county commissioners. Upon the presentation to the board of county commissioners of the county in which such city and townships, or the greater portion thereof, are located of a petition signed by not less than sixty percent of the qualified electors of each …

17-1344. Board of trustees; officers; bond; expenditures; tax levies; election upon petition. Upon the establishment of said cemetery district, the cemetery conveyed thereto shall become the property of said district and the township trustee of every township, a portion of which …

17-1345. Disorganization of township cemetery and formation of district; petition; transfer of property. Whenever a petition setting forth a proposed cemetery district (which includes territory wherein an existing township cemetery is located) and a proposal to disorganize the ex…

17-1346. Same; application of laws. The provisions of K.S.A. 17-1330, 17-1330a, 17-1331, 17-1333, 17-1334, 17-1335, 17-1337, 17-1338 and 17-1339 shall apply to the said cemetery district established by the board of county commissioners and all the rights, powers, duties, authorit…

17-1347. Reversion of unused grave spaces conveyed to patriotic organizations. In any city or other cemetery wherein blocks of grave spaces were conveyed to patriotic organizations for the interment of war dead and such organizations are now defunct, the title to the unused grave…

17-1348. Certain charitable purpose corporations; joint custody of assets. Any cemetery corporation now organized or existing, or which may be hereafter organized, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a cemetery or cemeteries for charitable purposes and having or acqui…

17-1349. Same; investment standards; acquisition of property. In acquiring, investing, reinvesting, exchanging, retaining, selling and managing property for the benefit of any cemetery corporation now or hereafter organized as provided in K.S.A. 17-1348, and amendments thereto, t…

17-1350. Dissolution of certain cemetery districts; determination of facts. Whenever any public utility, governmental agency of this state, or the United States, having the power of eminent domain, shall have determined it to be necessary to acquire for public use the existing pr…

17-1351. Same; findings; notice to owners of intention to dissolve district. Such petition shall be heard immediately by such district court, and if the district court shall find that the facts specifically set out in K.S.A. 17-1350 exist, the court shall direct that process be i…

17-1352. Same; hearing; determination; authority to contract, when. After service, as provided in the preceding section, has been made, a hearing shall be had by said district court, to determine whether such cemetery district should be dissolved, and the property rights of perso…

17-1353. Same; acquisition of locations in certain existing cemeteries. The directors of such cemetery district shall then be authorized to acquire by purchase suitable cemetery lots, or burial locations in other existing cemeteries within a radius of fifty (50) miles of such cem…

17-1354. Same; dissolution of district by court, when; deed; report, approval; order; recordation. Upon the removal and reburial of all bodies, together with the relocation of all markers, monuments and other identifying medium, the court shall be advised of such fact by the dire…

17-1355. Certain districts in counties of more than 250,000 population; tax levies, when; limitation. This act shall apply to any cemetery district, not within any incorporated city, which constitutes a group of four (4) cemeteries and which district is located in a county having…

17-1356. Disorganization and annexation of cemetery district to other district in same county, when; procedure. Any cemetery district organized under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-1330, 17-1330a, 17-1331 to 17-1334 and 17-1335, and acts amendatory thereof, and adjacent or contiguou…

17-1357. Entire district to be disorganized and annexed. If a cemetery district has been disorganized and annexed to another district as provided for in K.S.A. 17-1356, the entire petitioning cemetery district shall be disorganized and annexed to the adjacent or contiguous distri…

17-1358. Transfer of property and funds. When a cemetery district is disorganized and annexed, all of its property and funds on hand and to be collected shall, at the time of annexation, be transferred to the cemetery district of which it becomes a part, and said annexed district…

17-1359. Disorganization of certain districts and annexation of territory to other districts. Any cemetery district organized under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-1330 et seq., and amendments thereto, may be disorganized and the territory thereof annexed to another cemetery district…

17-1360. Vote to disorganize and requesting annexation of territory to another district; duties of secretary-treasurer. If a majority of the electors of any such district, present at the annual meeting, shall vote in favor of disorganizing such district and requesting the annexat…

17-1361. Same; duties of board receiving proposition; territory not annexed, when. Whenever the board of directors of any cemetery district organized under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-1330 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall receive a proposition requesting the annexation of t…

17-1362. Same; county commissioners duties to disorganize and annex district, when. If the board of county commissioners finds that the proposition, the vote thereon and the endorsement are sufficient and in proper form, it shall enter an order in its proceedings disorganizing su…

17-1363. Same; records, funds, etc., transferred to annexing district; title to property. Whenever any cemetery district shall be disorganized under the provisions of this act* and the territory thereof annexed to another district, all books, records, papers, moneys, funds in the…

17-1364. Same; fixing number of board after annexation; terms. At the annual meeting of any cemetery district next following the annexation of territory under the provisions of this act*, a majority of the electors present shall have authority to determine the number of and to el…

17-1365. Same; tax levies after annexation; uses of funds. Whenever territory shall have been attached to any cemetery district under the provisions of this act*, the county clerk of the county or the county clerks of each county in which said district is located shall, at the fi…

17-1366. Maintenance of abandoned cemeteries; definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Abandoned cemetery" means: (1) Any cemetery owned by a corporation, as defined in K.S.A. 17-1312f, and amendments thereto, in which, for a period of at least one year, there has been a failure to…

17-1367. Same; dissolution of certain cemetery corporations; liens declared void on and after January 1, 2003; transfer of property and moneys. Whenever the attorney general determines the existence of an abandoned cemetery in this state, the attorney general shall immediately pr…

17-1368. Same; contracts. Any municipality required, pursuant to this act, to care for and maintain a cemetery may contract with any individual, firm, corporation or association for the care and maintenance thereof or for the sale of unsold burial lots and the opening and closing…

17-1369. Cemetery district No. 23, Republic county; tax levy. Cemetery district No. 23 located in Republic county, Kansas, is hereby authorized to levy an annual tax upon all taxable tangible property in the district of not to exceed two mills for the purpose of paying the cost o…

17-1370. Cemetery districts in Sedgwick and Sumner counties; attachment of land in another county; petition; tax levy; transfer of moneys. In Sedgwick and Sumner counties, land adjacent to an established cemetery district which is a part of another organized cemetery district whi…

17-1371. Conveyance of cemetery property to Dodge City; transfer of books, paper, records and funds. (a) The board of county commissioners of Ford county is hereby authorized to convey to the city of Dodge City, with the consent of the governing body of such city, the following d…

17-1372. Cemetery districts; annual report of finances, filed with county commission. On or before December 31 of each year, the treasurer of the cemetery district shall file an annual report with the board of county commissioners of the county in which such district is located. …