Chapter 19 — COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS

19-207a. History: R.S. 1923, 19-207, ¶ 2; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 149, § 1; June 30.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…

19-208. Allowance of claims monthly. It shall be the duty of said board of county commissioners to allow monthly, at the meetings of the board of county commissioners, as fixed in K.S.A. 19-206, any and all claims against the county, as is provided by law, including claims for sa…

19-209. Meetings of board in counties of more than 50,000 population. That in all counties of the state of Kansas having a population of more than fifty thousand the county commissioners shall meet at their usual place of meeting not less than twice each week for the transaction …

19-210. History: L. 1871, ch. 74, § 6; R.S. 1923, 19-210; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 150, § 1; June 30.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 F…

19-211. Sale or disposition of county property; public notice; election, when; publication of certain sales; contracts for sale; lease-purchase agreements; exceptions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b): (1) Except for any property belonging to a county law enforcement depa…

19-212. Powers of board of commissioners. The board of county commissioners of each county shall have the power, at any meeting: First. To make such orders concerning the property belonging to the county as they may deem expedient, including the establishing of regulations, by re…

19-212a. Withholding from salaries to provide for certain insurance for employees, when. The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized to direct the proper officers to withhold from the salaries of its officers and employees such sums as such officers or em…

19-212b. Same; prior action confirmed. The action of the governing body of any county which has heretofore made deductions for the benefit of its employees as provided for in K.S.A. 19-212a is hereby ratified and confirmed. History: L. 1965, ch. 210, § 2; April 15. Previous | Nex…

19-212c. Establishment of uniform stationery letterhead; court letterhead approved by district judges. In addition to the powers and authority now provided by law, the board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized and directed to provide for the establishment o…

19-212d. Contracts for group insurance for certain county employees; withholding employee contributions. The board of county commissioners of any county is authorized to procure contracts insuring its officials and employees including fire and sewer district officials and employe…

19-212e. History: L. 1968, ch. 351, § 2; L. 1969, ch. 137, § 2; L. 1970, ch. 99, § 2; Repealed, L. 1977, ch. 87, § 1; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session D…

19-212f. Establishment or participation in weather modification programs; expenditures. The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized to establish or participate in weather modification programs and for the purpose of paying the costs thereof are hereby aut…

19-213. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 17; R.S. 1923, 19-213; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 152, § 1; June 30. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Commissioners may borrow money to meet deficit in current expenses. Doty v. Ellsbree, 11 Kan. 209, 212. 2. Money can be borrowed only after popular vote. The…

19-214. Awarding of certain contracts; public lettings; bond; exemptions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), in K.S.A. 19-216a, and amendments thereto, all contracts for the expenditure of county moneys for the construction of any courthouse, jail or other county building,…

19-215. Same; notice of letting contracts; bids. The board of county commissioners shall, before awarding any contract for any such improvement, publish notice of the letting in some newspaper printed in the county, or, if there be no such newspaper in the county, said board shal…

19-216. Same; plans and specifications for work. Before advertising for bids for any contract as provided in K.S.A. 19-215, and amendments thereto, the board of county commissioners shall cause plans and specifications of the proposed work or improvement to be prepared, which pla…

19-216a. Contracts for bridges damaged or destroyed by disaster. The provisions of K.S.A. 19-214, 19-215 and 19-216, and amendments thereto, shall not apply to contracts for the expenditure of county moneys for the reconstruction or repair of a bridge if: (a) The bridge has been …

19-216b. Alternative project delivery building construction procurement act. K.S.A. 19-216c through 19-216g, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the alternative project delivery building construction procurement act. History: L. 2008, ch. 148, § 1; L. 2010,…

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. P…

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…

19-221. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 28; R.S. 1923, 19-221; L. 1951, ch. 144, § 3; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 375, § 19; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Claims against county must be itemized. Atchison County v. Tomlinson, 9 Kan. 167, 173. 2. Board may allow or disallow claim in whole o…

19-222. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 29; R.S. 1923, 19-222; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 375, § 19; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Cited in proceeding for ouster of county commissioner. State, ex rel., v. Schroeder, 199 Kan. 403, 409, 410, 412, 430 P.2d 304. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE C…

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…

19-231. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 38; R.S. 1923, 19-231; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 154, § 1; June 30. Source or Prior Law: L. 1865, ch. 28, § 2. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTE…

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 …

19-234. History: L. 1881, ch. 163, § 1; R.S. 1923, 19-234; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 156, § 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 …

19-235. History: L. 1905, ch. 225, § 1; R.S. 1923, 19-235; Repealed, L. 1995, ch. 94, § 1; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Fi…

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…

19-237. History: L. 1907, ch. 142, § 1; R.S. 1923, 19-237; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 158, § 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 …

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…

19-244. History: L. 1911, ch. 146, § 1; L. 1913, ch. 149, § 1; L. 1915, ch. 263, § 1; R.S. 1923, 19-244; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 159, § 1; June 30. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Granting of pension not mandatory. Gleason v. Sedgwick County, 92 Kan. 632, 633, 141 P. 584. Previous | Next LEGI…

19-245. History: L. 1911, ch. 146, § 2; R.S. 1923, 19-245; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 159, § 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 …