Chapter 19, COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS

19-1594. Counties of more than 175,000 population; repairs and improvements to county buildings; replacing of equipment; plan; limitation; resolution; publication; bonds; election, when. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of one hundred seventy-fi…

19-1595. Issuance of bonds; limitations. All bonds issued by such county for the purposes herein provided may be issued annually over a period of not to exceed five (5) years, but the total amount of all such issues shall not exceed the aggregate amount fixed and stated in said r…

19-1596. Counties acquiring voting machines; building for storing and servicing and for other uses; resolution; plans and specifications; acquisition of site; costs; bonds. The board of county commissioners of any county which has acquired or which hereafter may acquire voting ma…

19-1597. Publication of resolution regarding acquisition of voting machines; bids; protest petition; election. The resolution herein referred to, to be unanimously adopted by the board of county commissioners of such counties shall be published for three (3) consecutive issues in…

19-1598. Bond requirements; outside debt limitations. All such bonds shall be issued, registered, sold, delivered and retired in accordance with the provisions of the general bond law. Any bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall not be subject to any limitation of bon…

19-1599. Improvement of courthouse property in counties of more than 250,000 population; leasing of old site, conditions. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) is hereby authorized to improve by repai…

19-1601. Location or removal of county seat, when; petition; order for election. When the county seat of any county has not been located by a vote of the electors of the county, and county buildings have not been erected at the county seat at a cost to the county of at least one …

19-1601a. Office at place other than county seat; validation. Whenever a board of county commissioners has established in any county at a place other than the county seat of said county, an office for the rendering of county services by county officials, such action of the board …

19-1601b. Deputy or clerks at place other than county seat; compensation; additional compensation to county officer. Such board of county commissioners may require any county official to provide a deputy or such clerk or clerks as may be necessary to render services of his office…

19-1602. Election for relocation of county seat, when; petition; registration. That in all cases where the county seat of any county in this state has been, or shall hereafter be located by a vote of the electors of such county, or where county buildings have been erected, donate…

19-1603. Estimate of value of lots. That for the purpose of ascertaining the compensation to which any person may be entitled under the provisions of section 2* of this act, the board of county commissioners of the proper county shall appoint three disinterested freeholders, elec…

19-1604. Determination of legal electors. For the purposes of this act, the county commissioners shall be governed by the last assessment rolls of the several township and city assessors of the county, and no petitioner shall be deemed a legal elector unless he be an elector and …

19-1605. When election held; notices. The elections provided for in this act shall be held within fifty days after the presentation of the petition therefor; and the county commissioners shall cause thirty days' notice of any such election to be given, by publication in one or mo…

19-1606. Canvass of first election. The board of commissioners shall meet on the Saturday following said election, and proceed to canvass the vote; and the place having received the majority of all the votes cast shall be proclaimed by them the county seat of the county. History:…

19-1607. Second election. When the county seat of any county has not been located by a vote of the legal electors of the county, if on the first election for the location thereof no place shall receive a majority of all the votes cast a second election shall be held on the second…

19-1608. Canvass of second election. In case of a second election, the board of county commissioners shall meet on the Saturday following, canvass the vote and proclaim the result, as hereinbefore provided. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 26, § 8; March 3; R.S. 1923, 19-1608.

19-1609. Removal to new county seat; time; penalty for failure. The county officers who are required by law to keep their offices at the county seat shall within twenty days after said proclamation remove all books, records, papers and furniture belonging to the county, to the pl…

19-1610. How elections conducted. Elections provided for in this act shall be conducted in all respects as provided for by the general election laws of the state. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 26, § 10; March 3; R.S. 1923, 19-1610. Source or Prior Law: L. 1863, ch. 24, § 4.

19-1611. Days for elections. No election under this act shall be held on the day of any general election. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 26, § 11; March 3; R.S. 1923, 19-1611. Source or Prior Law: L. 1863, ch. 24, § 1.

19-1612. Ballots at elections. At all elections under this act the ballots shall be headed "For county seat," and following thereafter shall be the name of the place for which the elector desires to cast his vote. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 26, § 12; March 3; R.S. 1923, 19-1612.

19-1613. Board of registry. That the persons authorized by law to act as judges of elections in any election or voting precinct of this state shall constitute a board of registry for their respective voting precincts, and shall meet on Tuesday, three weeks preceding any election …

19-1614. Register. Said registers shall each contain a list of the persons so qualified and entitled to vote in said voting precinct at the coming election for the permanent location or relocation of the county seat; alphabetically arranged according to their respective surnames,…

19-1615. Appointment of judges; new precincts. In case in any township there shall be two or more election precincts, and in any of said precincts there shall not reside any authorized judge of election, the township trustee of the township shall appoint three judges of election …

19-1616. Revision of register. The said board shall again meet on Tuesday of the week preceding the said election, in their respective voting precincts at the place designated for holding the polls of the election, for the purpose of revising, correcting and completing said lists…

19-1617. Proceedings and hearings of board. The proceedings of said board shall be open, and all persons residing and entitled to vote in said voting precinct shall be entitled to be heard by said board in relation to corrections or additions to said register. One of the lists so…

19-1618. Names to be erased or placed on list; false information; oaths. It shall be the duty of said board, at their meeting for revising and correcting said lists, to erase therefrom the name of any person inserted therein who shall be proved by the oath of two legal voters of …

19-1619. Copies of register; vote of certain persons not received; challenges. After said lists shall have been fully completed, and within three days of said second meeting of said board, they shall cause four copies of the same to be made, each of which shall be certified by th…

19-1620. Duties of clerks of election; penalties. The clerks at the polls, in addition to the duties now prescribed by law, shall enter on the poll books kept by them, in columns prepared for that purpose, opposite the name of each person voting, the same statement or minute as h…

19-1621. Poll books and register filed with county clerk. After the canvass of the votes by the judges of said election, said poll books and said register so kept and checked as aforesaid shall be attached together, and shall on the following day be filed in the office of the tow…

19-1622. Board may appoint clerk. The said board may, if necessary, on the day or days of the making and correcting such lists, appoint a clerk to assist them in the discharge of their duties required by this act; and the same oath shall be taken by such clerk as is required by l…

19-1623. Registers open to inspection. The registers shall at all times be open to public inspection at the office of the authorities in which they shall be deposited, without charge. History: L. 1881, ch. 89, § 11; March 4; R.S. 1923, 19-1623.

19-1624. Compensation of members of board and clerks. The members of the board of registration and their clerks shall each receive the same compensation as is now allowed by law for judges and clerks of elections, for each day actually and necessarily employed in the making and c…

19-1625. Board to preserve order; vacancies. The said board shall have and exercise the same power in preserving order at their meetings, under this act, as are given to judges of election for preserving order on election days; and vacancies in said board shall be filled in the s…

19-1626. Falsely registering or swearing; penalties; register blanks. Any person who shall cause his name to be registered in more than one voting precinct, or who shall cause his name to be registered, knowing that he is not a qualified elector in said precinct where he causes s…

19-1627. Register used at subsequent election. In case an election for the location or relocation of the permanent county seat of a county is held for which a registration of electors is made in pursuance of this act, and at such election no place shall receive a majority of the …

19-1628. Construction of act. Nothing in this act shall be construed in any manner to affect the qualifications of electors, or general mode of conducting elections. History: L. 1881, ch. 89, § 16; March 4; R.S. 1923, 19-1628.

19-1629. Judges of election appointed by county commissioners. The board of county commissioners shall appoint judges of elections for any election under this act, in any precinct where there are no judges provided by law; and the judges so appointed shall take and subscribe an o…

19-1630. Application of K.S.A. 19-1613 through 19-1629 to county-seat elections. Sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and seventeen of chapter eighty-nine of the Laws of 1881 be and the same are h…

19-1860j. Hospitals in certain counties of more than 125,000 population; sale of hospital to state. Any county which owns a hospital which is organized and operated pursuant to K.S.A. 19-1860 et seq. is hereby authorized to sell and convey merchantable title to said hospital toge…

19-1860k. Abolishment of board of trustees of certain county-owned hospitals; transfer of moneys, records and property. The board of trustees of any hospital sold and conveyed pursuant to K.S.A. 19-1860j or leased pursuant to K.S.A. 19-1860l is hereby abolished. Any moneys remain…

19-1860l. Lease of certain county hospital to board of regents; terms and conditions; approval by attorney general. Any county owning and operating a county hospital under the authority of K.S.A. 19-1860 et seq., and amendments thereto, is hereby authorized to lease such hospital…

19-1901. Jail services. Every county shall provide jail services, at the expense of the county, for the safekeeping of prisoners lawfully committed. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 53, § 1; R.S. 1923, 19-1901; L. 2023, ch. 83, § 2; July 1. Cross References to Related Sections: Jails in o…

19-1903. Sheriff to keep jail; separation of each sex, definitions; meals and medical care for prisoners. (a) The sheriff of the county, or such sheriff's deputy, shall: (1) Keep the jail and be responsible for the manner in which the jail is kept; (2) keep separate rooms for eac…

19-1904. Calendar of all prisoners; information required to be kept. The sheriff of each county shall keep a true and exact calendar of all prisoners committed to the county jail. Such calendar shall contain the names of all persons who are committed, their place of abode, the ti…

19-1905. Record of calendar for judges. At the opening of each term of the district court in the sheriff's county, the sheriff shall provide a record of the calendar maintained pursuant to K.S.A. 19-1904, and amendments thereto, to the judge of such court by providing a physical …

19-1909. Cost of keeping civil prisoner. The cost of keeping a defendant imprisoned by civil process shall be taxed as costs in the action in an amount equal to that provided by the county for maintenance of other county prisoners, and provision shall be made for the maintenance …

19-1910. Cost of keeping prisoner under criminal process; certain costs paid by the state; reimbursement from prisoner. (a) When a prisoner is committed to a county jail in a criminal action, the board of county commissioners shall allow the sheriff reasonable funding for maintai…

19-1911. Process; preservation and records. (a) When a prisoner is confined by virtue of any process directed to the sheriff and such process is required to be returned to the issuing court, such sheriff shall keep a copy of such process and return. Such copy, duly certified by s…

19-1916. Prisoner sent to jail of nearest county with space and means to care for such prisoner. Any committing judge of the district court of any county where there is no sufficient jail may order any person whom they may lawfully order to be committed to prison to be sent to th…

19-1917. Fugitives from other states; compensation for custody. Any county jail may be used for the safekeeping of any fugitive from justice from another state or territory. The sheriff or the keeper of the jail of such county shall be entitled to reasonable compensation for the …