Chapter 19 — COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS

19-27a06. Resolution; cost exceeding estimate; second hearing required; notice; continuation or discontinuation of project. (a) The board of county commissioners may create a sewer district by resolution passed at any time within one year after the conclusion of the public hearin…

19-27a07. Cost of project; assessments; notice; hearing; methods of assessment; protest; payment of assessments in full; issuance of bonds; dedication of property for public use. (a) After a sewer district has been created and improvements have been completed, the governing body …

19-27a08. Transfer of property to another district; construction of sewers upon request; additional sewers in lateral districts, cost. (a) Whenever the total special assessment on any property for storm or sanitary sewers has been paid, the property shall not be transferred to an…

19-27a09. Maintenance fund; tax levy; user charges. (a) The governing body of any sewer district shall have power to levy annually a special maintenance tax for the purpose of creating a maintenance fund to be used for the purpose of maintaining and keeping in repair sewer improv…

19-27a10. Sewage received from other districts; apportionment of cost; assessment among districts. If any main sewer is located so that it receives or may receive sewage from more than one district, the board may provide that the cost of the main sewer below a designated point be…

19-27a11. Costs of combined or enlarged districts; tax levy; installments; bonds. (a) Whenever sewer districts are combined, all bonded indebtedness existing on the effective date of the combination of districts shall remain a lien against and an obligation of the individual dist…

19-27a12. Disposal works and pumping stations; costs; bonds; approval by secretary of health and environment. (a) The board of county commissioners may construct, reconstruct, enlarge, extend or otherwise provide for one or more systems of disposal works for the purification of s…

19-27a13. Joint sewer districts; creation; procedure; inclusion of certain districts; petition. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, whenever the main sewer district engineer recommends the creation of one or more joint sewer districts to serve an existing or proposed …

19-27a14. Enlargement of boundaries upon petition; additional levies. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, the governing body of any main, lateral or joint sewer district, by resolution, may enlarge the boundaries of the district upon the presentation of a petition approve…

19-27a15. Annexation of district by a city; district not dissolved. Whenever the governing body of a sewer district has let contracts for the improvement of sewers and the same have been constructed and temporary notes have been issued for the purpose of paying part of the cost t…

19-27a16. Alteration of district's boundaries; district served by city-owned sewage system; hearing. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, the governing body of any sewer district, by resolution, may: (1) Alter the boundaries of the district to include or exclude parts …

19-27a17. Inspection to determine adequacy of sewage facilities; additional facilities authorized; cost; bonds. (a) The governing body of any sewer district shall from time to time cause an inspection to be made and a certified report and detailed account of the maximum connected…

19-27a18. Federal aid for costs; bonds. The governing body of any sewer district may apply for and accept grants of funds, materials or labor from the federal government or any departments thereof in the construction of sewer systems. The governing body may enter into any agreeme…

19-27a19. Contracts; public bidding required, when. All contracts for any construction of all or part of a sewer system, the cost of which shall exceed $2,500, shall be awarded on a public letting to the lowest responsible bidder and in the manner provided by K.S.A. 19-214, 19-21…

19-27a20. Unexpended bond proceeds; uses. Whenever bonds have been issued to pay the costs of additional improvements or enlarged facilities and unexpended funds remain after completion of all improvements authorized upon the recommendation of the main sewer district engineer, th…

19-27a21. Deficits in bond and interest fund; levy authorized. Whenever the governing body of a sewer district has apportioned the cost of improvements on the basis of the assessed valuation of the property in the district and if at any time there is a deficit in any bond and int…

19-27a22. Revenue bonds for sewer projects in urban areas. (a) The governing body of any sewer district located in a county designated an urban area under the provisions of K.S.A. 19-3524, and amendments thereto, without an election thereon, may issue revenue bonds to: (1) Acquir…

19-27a23. Abnormal delinquency in payment of special assessments; levy authorized. Whenever the board of county commissioners which has established a sewer district determines that because of abnormal delinquency in the payment of special assessments against property located with…

19-27a24. Attachment of territory within a city to county sewer district; notice; hearing; affect on bonds previously issued; costs; charges; bonds. Upon petition of the governing body of any city, the board of county commissioners of any county may attach territory lying within …

19-27a25. Additional user charge to pay cost for use of other municipality's treatment plant. Whenever the sewers of one or more sewer districts under the direction and control of any board of county commissioners drain into the treatment plant of another municipality either with…

19-27a26. Districts in Sedgwick county; delegation of powers to controller. The board of county commissioners of Sedgwick county may delegate to the county controller the responsibility of administering and coordinating the planning, development, construction and maintenance of t…

19-27a27. Existing districts to operate under K.S.A. 19-27a01 et seq.; exception. Except as provided by K.S.A. 19-27,170 et seq., and amendments thereto, any sewer district created under the provisions of article 27 of chapter 19 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments t…

19-28,100. Election on bonds, when. If and when recommended park improvements have proceeded to the point that such overall costs to the county can be determined or estimated with reasonable accuracy and such overall costs are found by the board to be within limitations fixed by …

19-28,101. Preliminary and working plans, when; survey and preparation of contracts before bids. If and when such board of county commissioners decides to proceed with proposed park improvements, including acquisition of additional land, if any, it shall instruct its qualified an…

19-28,102. Conditions; power of commissioners. Such county bonds, if authorized according to the provisions of this act, shall be negotiable in form and provide for payment of principal and interest within twenty (20) years. Interest on such bonds shall be payable semi-annually a…

19-28,105. Sports authority; definitions. As used in this act, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them herein: (a) "Urban area county" or "county" means any county designated an urban area by the legislature pursuant to section 17 of …

19-28,106. Petition for creation; notice and hearing; resolution of county commissioners. (a) Whenever a petition signed by one thousand (1,000) qualified electors of an urban area county shall be presented to the board of county commissioners of such county, requesting the creat…

19-28,107. Appointment of commissioners; number; qualifications; terms; chairman, officers and employees; votes required for action; compensation and expenses. (a) Any authority created pursuant to K.S.A. 19-28,106 shall be governed by five (5) commissioners appointed by the boar…

19-28,108. Powers of authority. In addition to other powers enumerated by this act, the authority shall have the power: (a) To acquire by gift, bequest, purchase or lease from public or private sources and to plan, construct, operate and maintain, or to lease to others for constr…

19-28,109. Comprehensive plan required; issuance of bonds or notes; conditions, restrictions and procedures; charges for use and services of facilities; allocation of revenues; refunding bonds. (a) Before the authority issues any bonds or notes, it shall adopt a comprehensive pla…

19-28,110. Rapid and economical discharge of duties directed; additional powers; effect on powers of local authorities. (a) The authority is authorized and directed to proceed to carry out its duties, functions and powers in accordance with this act as rapidly as may be economica…

19-28,111. Countywide entertainment tax; imposition, levy, collection, administration and enforcement; reports and records; penalty for unpaid taxes; disposition of revenues. (a) The board of county commissioners of any urban area county in which a county sports authority has bee…

19-28,112. Tax levy for county zoo in counties of more than 300,000 population; election; disposition of moneys. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of more than 300,000 is hereby authorized to levy an annual tax of not to exceed 1/2 mill upon all …

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19-2801. Parks, museums and recreation grounds; maintenance of certain city, district and township parks; contracts for recreational activities; issuance of bonds; tax levy, use of proceeds; protest petition and election. Any county may establish and maintain public parks, museum…

19-2802. Donations and bequests; regulations for supervision; board of trustees, when. The county may receive donations and bequests of either money or property, for the purposes established in K.S.A. 19-2801. The board of county commissioners shall make all regulations necessary…

19-2803. Tax levy, use of proceeds. The board of county commissioners is authorized to levy a tax for the creation of a fund to be used for the purposes set forth in K.S.A. 19-2801, and amendments thereto, and for the purpose of paying a portion of the principal and interest on b…

19-2803a. Rules and regulations by county commissioners; publication; penalties. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county or the township board of any township owning and operating a park, lake or other recreational area is hereby empowered to adopt, by resolution, rea…

19-2803b. Conveyance of certain real estate to department of wildlife and parks. The board of commissioners of any county that has previously acquired real estate under K.S.A. 19-2801, and amendments thereto, or its predecessors, and has not constructed and completed a lake or pa…

19-2803c. Establishment and maintenance of county lake and recreational grounds; election; bonds; limitation on cost. Any county may establish and maintain a county public lake and recreational grounds and facilities adjacent to said lake all of which shall be within said county,…

19-2803d. Acceptance of gifts; regulations. The board of county commissioners may receive donations and bequests of either money or property for the purpose of establishing and maintaining such lake and recreational grounds. The board shall make all regulations necessary for the …

19-2803e. Tax levy, use of proceeds. Whenever a county lake and recreational grounds shall be established under the authority of this act, the board of county commissioners of such county shall make an annual tax levy for the creation of a lake and recreational grounds fund to be…

19-2803f. Application of K.S.A. 19-2803a and 19-2803b. The provisions of K.S.A. 19-2803a and 19-2803b, or acts amendatory thereof, shall apply to any county lake and recreational grounds established under the authority of this act. History: L. 1963, ch. 188, § 4; June 30. Previou…

19-2814. Establishment of parks and recreational grounds in certain counties. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of not less than eighty thousand (80,000) nor more than one hundred seventy-five thousand (175,000), may establish parks and recreatio…

19-2815. Plan for improvements; engineer. The board of county commissioners of any county to which this act applies, upon the acquisition of lands for park and recreational grounds or entering into agreement for the purchase thereof, is empowered to adopt a plan for the improveme…