Chapter 19, COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS

19-216c. Definitions. (a) "Alternative project delivery" means an integrated comprehensive building design and construction process, including all procedures, actions, sequences of events, contractual relations, obligations, interrelations and various forms of agreement all aimed…

19-216d. Criteria for use. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, the board is hereby authorized to institute an alternative project delivery program whereby construction management at-risk or building design-build procurement processes may be utilize…

19-216e. Procedure, construction management at-risk. Construction management at-risk project delivery procedures shall be conducted as follows: (a) The board shall determine the scope and level of detail required to permit qualified firms to submit construction management at-risk…

19-216f. Procedure, building design-build projects. Building design-build project delivery procedures shall be conducted as follows: (a) The board shall determine the scope and level of detail required to permit qualified firms to submit building design-build qualifications and p…

19-216g. Proposals; open for public inspection. Every proposal received from each phase of procurement, including total scores and total rankings shall, after award or letting of the contract, be subject to public inspection upon request. History: L. 2008, ch. 148, § 6; July 1.

19-217. New townships; area and population; petition; notice. The board of county commissioners shall not set off or organize any new township unless it shall contain territory equal to at least thirty square miles, and at least two hundred inhabitants within the limits thereof, …

19-218. Seal of board of commissioners; open meetings; order of business. Every board of county commissioners shall have a seal, and may alter the same at pleasure. They shall sit with open doors, and all persons conducting in an orderly manner may attend their meetings; and they…

19-219. Organization of board; chairman, vacancy; charter counties, exception. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to meet on the second Monday in January of each year, or within thirty (30) days thereafter, and organize by electing one of their number chair…

19-220. Powers and duties of chairman. The chairman of said board shall have power to administer oaths to any person, concerning any matter submitted to the board or connected with their powers and duties; and he shall sign all county orders. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 27; Oct…

19-223. Appeals to district court; notice; bond. Any person who shall be aggrieved by any decision of the board of commissioners may appeal from the decision of such board to the district court of the same county, by causing a written notice of such appeal to be served on the cle…

19-224. Duties of clerk on appeal; procedure. The clerk of the board, upon such appeal being taken, shall immediately give notice thereof to the county attorney, and shall make out a brief return of the proceedings in the case before the board, with their decision thereon, and sh…

19-225. Supplies for county officers; official seals. The board of commissioners of their respective counties shall, at the expense of the county, furnish annually and in due season, to the assessor of the county, suitable blank assessment rolls for the several townships, prepare…

19-226. Record of orders. The board of county commissioners, at their July session of each year, or oftener if they deem it necessary, shall carefully examine the county orders returned by the county treasurer, by comparing each order with the record of orders in the clerk's offi…

19-227. Annual financial statement; publication. The boards of commissioners of their respective counties shall cause to be made out and published, yearly, in at least one newspaper in their county, if such there be, a report of receipts and expenditures of the year next precedin…

19-228. Statement of expenditures; publication of statement or summary of expenditures and balances. (a) Except as provided by this section, the board of county commissioners shall cause to be published at the end of each calendar quarter or, if the county commissioners so provid…

19-229. Control of expenditures. The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of this state shall have exclusive control of all expenditures accruing, either in the publication of the delinquent tax lists, treasurer's notices, county printing, or any other county ex…

19-230. Plat and record of new or altered township. Whenever any board of commissioners shall organize a new township or alter the boundaries of any township in their county, they shall cause a plat and record thereof to be made by the clerk, specifying the name and boundaries of…

19-232. Unauthorized fees or costs; action to recover; penalty and attorney's fee. All fees, costs or other allowances, or any fees obtained from or allowed against any county, when the same are not authorized by law, and not refunded on demand, may be recovered back in a civil a…

19-233. Violation of law by commissioner; penalty; bond of commissioner, approval, filing. That every person who is either elected or appointed to the office of county commissioner of any county in the state of Kansas, who shall willfully violate any provision of law, or fail to …

19-236. Emergency expenses; no-fund warrants; tax levies; limitations. That in addition to the powers already given by law, the board of county commissioners of each county shall have power at any meeting, in case of great loss or damage to life or property, to assist in burying …

19-236a. Civil defense in certain counties; tax levy, use of proceeds. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) is hereby authorized and empowered to levy an annual tax on all the taxable tangible proper…

19-241. County charges and expenses; tax levy, use of proceeds. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each county in this state to levy in each year, in addition to the taxes for other purposes, a county tax sufficient to defray all county charges and expen…

19-242. Unlawful allowances; issuance of warrants or warrant checks for more than allowed. It shall be unlawful for any board of county commissioners to allow any greater sum on any account, claim or demand against the county, than the amount actually due thereon, dollar for doll…

19-243. Violation of K.S.A. 19-241, 19-242 or failure to perform duties; penalty. Any board of county commissioners, or any county commissioner, or county clerk, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or neglect or refuse to perform any duty herein imposed, shall be…

19-247. Duties of county counselor. The county counselor shall: (a) When requested by the board of county commissioners or when necessary, attend the meetings of such board; (b) give advice upon all legal questions that arise and assist the board on all legal matters referred to …

19-248. Effect of act on office of county attorney. Upon and after the appointment of such county counselor, the county attorney of such counties shall not be required to represent said counties in any civil actions or business, excepting, however, tax foreclosure suits in counti…

19-250. Reproduction and preservation of public records, other than court records; minimum standards. The board of county commissioners of any county in the state may, by resolution, provide for and authorize any officer of the county to photograph, microphotograph or otherwise r…

19-251. Equipment and facilities; operation. Any such county may purchase, lease or acquire the equipment and facilities necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this act and by contract and agreement arrange for the use thereof, and may employ such parties as are necess…

19-252. Materials deemed original record; evidence; transcript. Photographs, microphotographs or reproductions shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes, and may be used as evidence in all courts or administrative agencies. A transcript, exemplification or certifi…

19-260a. Appointment of purchasing officer in Johnson and Sedgwick counties; compensation, clerk hire, expenses; bond. The board of county commissioners of Johnson and Sedgwick counties shall appoint a qualified person who shall be known as the county purchasing officer, and who …

19-260b. Duties of purchasing officer; supplies and equipment; contracts; report; requisition for purchases; small purchases; bids. The county purchasing officer, by and in conjunction with the board of county commissioners, shall purchase all supplies and equipment and approve a…

19-264. Counties of more than 150,000 population; petty cash funds, limitation; uses. The board of county commissioners of any county having a population of more than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) may by resolution adopted by such board, authorize the establishment and mai…

19-265. Expenditure limitations; fund for redemption of unsold fish and game licenses. Petty cash funds hereby authorized may be used to provide for payment of any authorized expenditure of not more than twenty-five dollars ($25). No petty cash fund may be used to pay regular emp…

19-266. Monthly statement of payments from fund to county clerk; restoration. At the close of each month, or more frequently if necessary, there shall be filed with the county clerk an itemized and detailed reconciliation and statement of payments made out of any petty cash fund …

19-267. Maintenance in cash; number of funds authorized; instructions, reconciling entries; withdrawal of authority. Petty cash funds authorized under this act may be maintained in cash and shall not be required to be maintained in a bank. The board of county commissioners may au…

19-268. Pay periods for county employees. The board of county commissioners of each county having a population of not less than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) are hereby authorized to fix, by resolution, the pay periods of all county employees. History: L. 1970, ch. 102, § …

19-269. Powers of board of commissioners; travel policy; advancement of expenses. The board of county commissioners of any county may adopt a travel policy and may advance expected transportation and board expenses to the county sheriff while serving under requisition made by the…

19-270. Special benefit districts; creation or enlargement; approval of board of county commissioners, required. (a) (1) A special benefit district shall include any: (A) Sewer district; (B) water district, rural water district and water supply district; (C) fire district; (D) im…

19-301. County clerk; election, term, bond. Beginning with the general election in 1976, a county clerk shall be elected in each county, for a term of four (4) years. Such county clerk shall, before entering upon the duties of the office, execute and file with the county treasure…

19-302. Deputies and assistants; duties; bond; acting as county treasurer prohibited; meetings and seminars; budget; limitation on personnel policies and practices. (a) The county clerk shall appoint a deputy county clerk and file a written statement of the appointment in the cle…

19-303. Vacancy in office of county clerk, how filled. If a vacancy in the office of county clerk should occur by death, resignation or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of a qualified elector of this state in the manner provided in this section. If the vacanc…

19-304. Duties of county clerk. The county clerk shall: (a) Keep the clerk's office at the county seat; (b) attend the sessions of the board of county commissioners, either in person or by deputy; (c) keep the seals, records and papers of the board of commissioners; (d) sign the …

19-305. Records and accounts. It shall be the general duty of the county clerk: First, to record, in a book to be provided for that purpose, all proceedings of the board; second, to make regular entries of their resolutions and decisions in all questions concerning the raising of…

19-306. Claims allowed, record; fees for certified copies of any record. It shall be the duty of such clerk to designate, upon every account which shall be audited and allowed by the board, the amount so allowed. Such clerk shall also deliver to any person who may demand it, a ce…

19-308. Limitation on accounts against county. No account against the county shall be allowed unless presented within two years after the same accrued: Provided, That if any person having a claim against the county be, at the time the same accrues, under any legal disability, eve…

19-309. Certification of names and boundaries of townships. The clerk of each county shall, as often as a new township shall be organized in his county, or the boundaries of any township therein shall be altered, and immediately thereafter, make out and transmit to the secretary …

19-310. Road record; prima facie evidence. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to record in a proper book, to be called the "road record," a record of all proceedings in regard to laying out and establishing roads in the county, which said record shall include the report of …

19-311. Record of receipts, expenditures and accounts. The county clerk of each county of this state shall keep a book in which he shall keep the receipts and expenditures of his county, and all accounts of his county with the different county, township, district, and other offic…

19-312. Account with county treasurer; charges and credits. The county clerk, in keeping the accounts of his county with the county treasurer, shall charge the county treasurer as follows: With the amount of taxes levied and assessed by the state and county, and each city, town, …

19-313. Separate statement of different funds. The county clerk, in making the above charges, credits and entries, shall state each different fund and each item of each different fund separately. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 52; October 31; R.S. 1923, 19-313. Source or Prior Law…