Chapter 19, COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS

19-27,185. Feasibility report; plans and specifications; estimates; bids. Before the adoption of a resolution ordering a hearing on the advisability of any improvement, as provided in K.S.A. 19-27,184, the governing body may secure a feasibility report to assist in the determinat…

19-27,186. Action by governing body; protest petitions. The governing body, by a majority vote of the entire membership thereof, at any time within six months after the final adjournment of the hearing on the advisability of making the improvements, may adopt a resolution authori…

19-27,187. Apportionment of costs. (a) The county, upon a 4/5 vote of the governing body, may pay such portion of the cost of the improvement as the governing body may determine, but not more than 95% of the total cost thereof. (b) If any property deemed benefited, by reason of a…

19-27,188. Assessment plan; classifications, formulae and methods of assessing. The portion of the cost of any improvement to be assessed against the property in the benefit district, as determined in accordance with K.S.A. 19-27,184, shall be apportioned against the property in …

19-27,189. Assessment rolls; notice and hearing. (a) As soon as the total cost of any improvement is determined, the governing body shall cause the assessments against each lot, piece or parcel of land deemed to be benefited, to be determined in the manner set forth in the resolu…

19-27,190. Levy of assessments; interest; payments in full; payments by taxing units. At such meeting, or at any adjournment thereof, the governing body shall hear and pass upon all such objections to each proposed assessment, if any, and may amend the proposed assessments as to …

19-27,191. Action to set aside assessments, limitation. No suit to set aside the assessments or otherwise question the validity of the proceedings shall be brought after the expiration of 30 days from the publication of the resolution fixing the assessments. History: L. 1991, ch.…

19-27,192. Supplemental assessments; reassessments and new assessments. (a) Upon notice and hearing as provided for in the original assessment, or with the written consent of all affected landowners, the governing body may make supplemental assessments to correct omissions, error…

19-27,193. Cost of improvements, how paid; limitations. The total cost of any improvement made under the authority of this act shall be paid as follows: (a) All costs made payable by the county at large which may be paid from general funds legally available for such purposes or f…

19-27,194. Special improvement fund; use of money therefrom. A separate fund shall be created in the county treasury for each improvement or combination of improvements and such fund shall be identified by a suitable title. The proceeds from the sale of bonds and any other moneys…

19-27,195. Districts in or adjacent to cities. The governing body shall be authorized to create a benefit district in any portion of the unincorporated area of the county. If the benefit district either overlaps or abuts the city limits of any incorporated city, then no such bene…

19-27,196. Districts created by a city overlapping or adjacent to city limits. The governing body of any city shall be authorized to create a special assessment benefit district in any portion of the city's incorporated area. If the special assessment benefit district either over…

19-27,197. Validity of act. If any section or other part of this act shall be held invalid, the invalidity thereof shall not affect the validity of the other provisions of this act. History: L. 1991, ch. 51, § 17; April 25.

19-2716. Formation of taxing district for fire protection and street lighting; petition; enlargement of boundaries, when. When the resident owners of fifty-one percent (51%) or more of the land located in an unincorporated town or village, which land is occupied in platted lots a…

19-2717. Certification of tax levy by township board; limitations; certain counties between 125,000 and 165,000; election. (a) The township board shall determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation to furnish fire protection or street lighting or both within su…

19-2718. Duties of township board. The township board shall administer the funds of the said taxing district, and said taxes when collected shall be paid over to the township treasurer in the same manner as taxes levied for township purposes. The township board shall make the nec…

19-2719. Disorganization of taxing district; disposition of fund. At any time after such taxing district shall have been formed as herein provided if the owners of two-thirds or more of the real property located within such taxing districts, shall present to the board of county c…

19-2721. Street lights without city limits; contracts. That the board of county commissioners of each county in this state shall have power to enter into contracts for a term not to exceed twenty years with another or others for the electric lighting of streets and/or highways or…

19-2722. Lighting to be in platted areas. The board of county commissioners may not under this act provide for the lighting of any street or highway or portion of a street or highway unless the street or highway or portion of street or highway to be lighted or the major portion t…

19-2723. Petition. No board of county commissioners shall make any contract for lighting under this act unless a petition in writing asking for such improvement shall be presented to such board of county commissioners signed by the owners of a majority of the front feet of the la…

19-2724. Notice of public hearing. Whenever such petition shall have been properly filed the board of county commissioners of such county shall notify each owner of land in the district to be benefited, by a notice in writing stating that such petition has been filed, and that a …

19-2725. Service; publication; proof. The notice provided for in the preceding section may be served by sending a certified copy thereof by mail to the usual place of residence of the person to be notified and [said board] shall publish the same for two successive insertions in s…

19-2726. Contracts for lighting. If upon the hearing of such petition the board of county commissioners finds that the petition conforms to the provisions of this act, that notices have been served as herein provided, that the proposed street or highway lighting is reasonably nec…

19-2727. Terms of contract; extent of liability. When the board of county commissioners shall have ordered any lighting to be done under the provisions of this act it may enter into a contract specifying the terms thereof for such lighting with stipulations to pay for the same at…

19-2728. Special assessments. When the board of county commissioners shall have entered into a contract for lighting under this act it shall provide for the payment of the cost thereof, including the reasonable cost of serving notices on landowners as hereinbefore provided, by an…

19-2729. Collected as other taxes; payment to contractor. The special assessment herein provided for shall be entered by the county clerk of such county each year upon the tax rolls as long as contracts for such lighting or renewals thereof remain in force, or when a balance rema…

19-2730. Limitation of actions; assessment subsequent to regular meeting; notice. That the owner of any real estate against which assessment may be made shall have thirty days from and after the time such assessment is levied, and not longer, within which to bring suit in any cou…

19-2745a. Easement granted to Mission township main sewer district No. 1. It is hereby provided and authorized that an easement be and the same is hereby declared to exist in favor of said main sewer district and its duly organized lateral sewer districts across said state park, …

19-2745b. Description. The easement granted by the state of Kansas to Mission township main sewer district No. 1 and its duly organized lateral sewer districts is hereby restricted to the following described portions of the Shawnee Mission state park, to wit: A ten foot strip of …

19-2745c. Easement rights. Said easement shall include the right of ingress and egress running to said main sewer district No. 1 to construct, maintain, repair and service all or any part of such sewer line. History: L. 1955, ch. 161, § 3; March 28.

19-2745d. Restrictions and conditions. In constructing, maintaining, repairing and servicing any such sewer line the Mission township main sewer district No. 1, its agents, servants or employees: (a) Shall not use any dynamite or other explosives on or adjacent to the grounds of …

19-2752a. Issuance of no-fund warrants for additional revenue subsequent to bond election for sewer system and disposal plant; limitation; approval of state board of tax appeals; procedure. That whenever a main sewer district has been established under the provisions of K.S.A. 19…

19-2752b. Enlargement of main sewer district; petition; resolution; tax levies. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, the governing body of a main sewer district created and established under the provisions of K.S.A. 19-2731 to 19-2752, inclusive, and amendments thereto, by…

19-2752d. Jurisdiction over main sewer district area after its incorporation as a city. That if any area which is located wholly or partly in any main sewer district is incorporated as a city after this act takes effect, the area of any such city which lies within said main sewer…

19-2752e. County clerk as clerk of sewer district. The county clerk of any county in which a sewer district has been created and established under the provisions of K.S.A. 19-2731 to 19-2752, inclusive, shall be the official clerk of the governing body of such sewer district. His…

19-2752g. Use of certain unexpended funds for improvements and facilities of main sewer district. Whenever a main sewer district has been established under the provisions of K.S.A. 19-2731 to 19-2752, both sections inclusive, and any amendments thereto, and the question of the is…

19-2752h. Main sewer district; additional powers of governing body; resolutions; notice and hearing; costs, how paid; appeals. This section shall be construed as supplemental to and as a part of K.S.A. 19-2731 to 19-2752, inclusive, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental the…

19-2752i. Sewer districts in counties having townships of 5,000 or more population; connection of lateral sewer with main sewer system; incorporation as lateral sewer district or attachment to other district; enlargement; procedure. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270,…

19-2753. Improvement districts; petition; incorporation. The board of county commissioners of any county shall have the power, upon a proper petition being presented for that purpose, to incorporate and organize improvement districts within their respective counties, in the manne…

19-2754. Contents of petition; statement. The petition for the incorporation and organization of an improvement district shall be addressed to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the lands which it is proposed shall constitute the district are situated. The p…

19-2755. Incorporation and organization; notice and hearing; factors considered in determining advisability. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, when a petition conforming to this section and K.S.A. 19-2754, and amendments thereto, is filed with the board of county co…

19-2755a. Inclusion of land in other benefit districts. Any land located within an industrial district created pursuant to K.S.A. 19-3801 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall not be included within the boundaries of any improvement district created pursuant to K.S.A. 19-2753 et…

19-2756. Hearing, findings and determination; public corporation; name; perpetual succession. That at the time set for the hearing of the petition, as provided in the next preceding section, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to first ascertain and determine whether…

19-2757. Record of organization; first election. That it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners incorporating any improvement district under the provisions of this act to cause an entry to be made upon its records showing all of its declarations, findings, decisio…

19-2758. Qualifications of voters. The county clerk shall, not less than twenty (20) days prior to the date fixed by the board of county commissioners for the holding of the first election in such district, ascertain from the tax rolls of the preceding year the names of all taxpa…

19-2759. Election of directors. That at the time appointed by the board of county commissioners, the first election shall be held, at which time three (3) directors shall be chosen. The ballots shall have the words "for director" and the names of three (3), or more, persons writt…

19-2760. Directors; election, qualifications, term. (a) An election shall be held in each improvement district on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November and of each odd-numbered year thereafter for the purpose of electing three directors of such district, except that …

19-2761. Filling a vacancy in board of directors. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), when a vacancy occurs at any time in the office of a director of any improvement district, the remaining directors shall appoint a person from the qualified residents in such district to h…

19-2763. Organization of district by directors; officers, powers and duties; county treasurer's duties; district treasurer's duties. (a) As soon as practicable after they have qualified, the board of directors shall meet and select from their number a president, secretary and tre…

19-2764. Meetings of the board of directors; compensation of directors and assessors; payment. (a) Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be held on the first Tuesday of each quarter. Special meetings may be held at any time when all the directors are voluntarily presen…