Chapter 68, ROADS AND BRIDGES

68-101. Definitions. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them wherever they appear in chapter 68 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto: (a) "Highway commissioners," "township board of hi…

68-102. Laying out, altering or vacating roads. (a) Upon petition of any adjacent landowner, the board of county commissioners may lay out, alter or vacate a road. The board of county commissioners also may layout or alter any road when deemed necessary by the board. (b) The boar…

68-102a. Same; notice. Before any road is laid out, altered or vacated without the presentation of a petition, the county clerk shall give notice of the proposed action by publication once in the official county newspaper and by sending notice by certified mail to each owner of p…

68-103. Petition, contents. All petitions for laying out or altering a road shall specify the place of beginning, the intermediate points, if any, and the place of termination of such road. History: L. 1911, ch. 248, § 3; May 22; R.S. 1923, 68-103. Source or Prior Law: L. 1864, c…

68-104. Viewers; notice of view; duties of county surveyor. (a) Upon presentation of any petition for a road, or for the alteration or vacation of any road, to the county commissioners, at any regular session of their board, it shall be the duty of such commissioners, if they fin…

68-105. Notice by petitioner; affidavits of service; filing. It shall be the duty of at least one of the petitioners to cause six days' notice to be given in writing to the owner or owners or their agents, if residing in the county, or if such owner be a minor, idiot or insane pe…

68-106. Viewing, surveying, laying out, altering or vacating road; assessment of damages; application for damages, when; filing, survey and plat. It shall be the duty of the commissioners or said viewers or a majority of them, and the county surveyor to meet at the time and place…

68-107. Separate certificates of damages assessed; appeal from award; benefit district assessment in counties between 30,000 and 90,000; notice and hearing; appeal. It shall be the duty of the commissioners or viewers, at the same time that they make their certificate of the view…

68-109. Road on county or city line; petition; viewers; filing survey and plat. When it shall become necessary to establish a road on a county line, the inhabitants along such line may petition the board of commissioners of their respective counties for a view of said road in the…

68-110. Compensation of commissioners; viewers, chainmen, flagmen and markers; payment of costs and expenses. All persons required to render services under chapter 68 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, shall receive compensation…

68-113. State-line roads; establishment; width limitation. The boards of county commissioners of counties along the state line may establish a road in the state of Kansas along such state line in the manner provided by law for the laying out of other public highways: Provided, Th…

68-114. Proceedings for change in roads; eminent domain. When it is found necessary to lay out, relocate, alter, widen or vacate a road or highway for the purpose of eliminating sharp turns or other dangerous places, or for the proper construction of a highway, or for the extensi…

68-115. Opening and repair of roads by county engineer or township trustee; drains and ditches; penalty for obstruction; compensation for road building material taken; appeal. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), it shall be the duty of each and every county engineer to open…

68-115a. Township minimum maintenance roads. The township board of each township may establish by resolution of the board minimum standards for road beds and road drainage. History: L. 1995, ch. 232, § 2; May 4.

68-116. Prescribed width of county roads; hedges; increase of width, when. The width of all county roads shall be determined by the viewers at the time of establishing the same, and shall not be more than one hundred and twenty (120) nor less than sixty (60) feet and in cases whe…

68-117. Access to public highway, when; petition; width of road and plat; payment of expenses. Whenever the premises of any person shall be so completely surrounded by adjoining lands, the property of others or by such lands and water, as to be without access to any public highwa…

68-117a. Counties having a township of 10,000 or over with no city or town; petition for laying out, viewing or altering roads; bond. In all counties in which there is a township with a population of ten thousand or more outside of the limits of any incorporated city or town, app…

68-117b. Same; benefit district; damages; abandonment of proceedings, when; assessment of benefits. Every such petition for laying out, widening or altering a road, shall contain a description of the boundary lines of the benefit district, within the limits hereinafter prescribed…

68-117c. Same; hearing; publication of notice; copy of proceedings to owners; limitation on time for appeal. The board of county commissioners shall set a day for a hearing in connection with the establishment of the benefit district, and the fixing of damages and benefits, which…

68-117d. Same; appeal from award; appraisers; report; exceptions to report; notice of hearing; copy of judgment to county clerk. Any person owning land within the benefit district, and feeling himself aggrieved by the orders made by the board of county commissioners, or viewers, …

68-118. Informational signs at intersections on township roads. Each township trustee within his township is authorized to cause to be erected and kept up at the expense of the township, informational signs at the intersection of any roads under his supervision, containing an ins…

68-124. Private roads as public highways, maintenance. Where under the laws of the state of Kansas, now in existence, or that may hereafter be enacted, any road or highway that is not a county road has been declared to be a public road or highway, it shall be the duty of the town…

68-126. Fences across public highways; gates; county commissioners' powers and duties. The county commissioners of any county are hereby empowered, where lands are used largely as pasture lands and wherever in their judgment the convenience of the traveling public will not be mat…

68-127. Same; penalty. Any person who shall injure or destroy, at any time, or who shall leave open any gate constructed under the provisions of K.S.A. 68-126, contrary to the intent and the purpose of said order, and at a time when by the terms of said order such gate or gates a…

68-128a. Highways through pastures; maintenance, auto gates and passes; cost; liability for damages to livestock. (a) Whenever by license or custom the public is permitted to travel through any pasture lands enclosed by fences, and the owner or owners of such land shall give thei…

68-131. Township sidewalks and crossings; petition; special assessments. (a) It shall be lawful for the township board of any township to establish and maintain a sidewalk not more than five feet in width in and along the outer edge of any highway or across the same whenever a pe…

68-132. Same; contracts; specifications and bids; publication notice; bond of contractor; inspector. All contracts for such improvements costing more than $100 shall be in writing. At least twenty (20) days before the township board shall let any contract for such improvement, th…

68-133. Same; time for action to set aside or enjoin. No suit or action of any kind shall be maintained in any court to set aside or in any way contest or enjoin or levy or collect any tax or special assessment levied under the provisions of this act after the expiration of thirt…

68-134. Same; penalty for removal or injury. Any person who shall remove or ride or drive upon any portion of said sidewalk constructed in accordance with this act, except at regular driveways, shall upon conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished …

68-141a. Renting or hiring of machinery and equipment prohibited; exceptions. No board of county commissioners or board of township trustees shall rent or hire county or township machinery and equipment to residents of the county or township or to any other person for private use…

68-141b. Supervision by experienced operator; times for renting; charges. Any machinery or equipment requiring an experienced operator shall be rented or hired only under the supervision of an experienced employee of the county or township. It shall be hired or rented only at suc…

68-141c. Revenue to road fund. The revenue derived by the county or township from the rentals shall be placed in the road-maintenance fund of the county or township. History: L. 1933, ch. 235, § 3; June 5. Attorney General's Opinions: Rental or hiring road machinery and equipment…

68-141f. Setting aside portions of road and bridge or street funds; definitions. As used in this act, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them by this section unless the context otherwise requires. (1) "Municipality" means any city or county and any township wh…

68-141g. Same; resolution of governing body; procedure; retransfer, when. The governing body of any municipality by resolution is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer, annually, from the road, bridge or street fund of such municipality not to exceed twenty-five percent (25…

68-151. Vacating road in Labette county. Laws 1919, chapter 254, section 1, included by reference. [Act vacated part of section line public road therein described.] History: R.S. 1923, 68-151.

68-151a. Roads within boundary of federal flood control projects; vacating, laying out or altering; notice. The board of county commissioners of any county may vacate any county or township road located within the boundaries of, or adjacent to, a federal flood control project, ex…

68-151g. Counties with assessed valuation under $50,000,000; bonds for constructing or improving county roads and bridges; election; tax levy. The board of county commissioners of any county having a total assessed tangible valuation of less than fifty million dollars ($50,000,00…

68-151h. Same; how money expended. All moneys derived from such bond issue shall be expended only for the purposes specified in K.S.A. 68-151g on county roads in each county commissioner district in the same proportion as the total miles of county roads in such county commissione…

68-151i. Same; bond limitations inapplicable. None of the restrictions or limitations contained in any other law relating to the bonded indebtedness of any county shall apply to bonds issued under the provisions of this act. History: L. 1945, ch. 276, § 3; June 28.

68-151j. Same; federal or state aid. The board of county commissioners of any such county may receive and use and have the benefit of any federal or state aid in so constructing and reconstructing such roads and bridges on the county road system. History: L. 1945, ch. 276, § 4; J…

68-151m. Issuance of no-fund warrants for certain purposes by certain counties; definition. As used in this act: (a) "Board" means the board of county commissioners of counties such as defined in subsection (b) hereof; (b) "county" means any county in which there is located any l…

68-151n. Same; purposes; amount; conditions; tax levies to pay. The board of any such county may issue no-fund warrants without the approval of the state board of tax appeals, to provide additional funds to be used to pay a part of the cost of the relocation, construction, recons…

68-151o. Certain counties authorized to expend moneys received as reimbursement for expenditures without regard to certain budget limitations. The board of county commissioners of any county having used materials or current operating funds in connection with or to pay all, or any…

68-151p. Acceptance of retrocession of exclusive jurisdiction over certain state highways bordering federal reservation and penitentiary. The state of Kansas hereby accepts exclusive jurisdiction over certain highways bordering Fort Leavenworth military reservation and the United…

68-161. Authority of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners of any county may provide for the electrical lighting of any county, township, state or federal road or highway or any bridge on such road or highway in the manner provided by this act. History: L. 1947,…

68-162. Same; contracts. In order to provide for such lighting of any such road, highway or bridge, the board of county commissioners of any county: (1) May contract for a period covering not more than fifteen years with any privately or municipally owned utility or electric coop…

68-164. Same; approval of certain plans and specifications by secretary of transportation. No such lighting system or lighting service shall be commenced, contracted for or installed on any state or federal highway or any bridge thereon until all plans and specifications therefor…

68-165. Same; secretary of transportation not liable. No liability shall accrue to the secretary of transportation upon any claim whatsoever arising out of the construction or operation of any lighting system or service established, constructed or operated under the authority con…

68-167. Signs, lights and reflectors near federal, state, or federal and state highways and turnpike projects; unlawful acts. It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, firm or association to install, construct, erect, maintain or operate within fifty (50) feet of the righ…

68-168. Same; penalties. Any person, corporation, firm or association violating any of the provisions of K.S.A. 68-167 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not m…