Chapter 68, ROADS AND BRIDGES

68-1138. Same; application by county; conditions; application of tax levy revenues; approval of loan or advance; warrants; use of moneys. Any county desiring to obtain a loan or advance shall make an application therefor to the secretary of transportation. Said application shall …

68-1139. Same; application of tax moneys to loan or advance; duties of county treasurer; withholding of amounts from special city and county highway fund, when; transfer to highway fund. The county treasurer of any county receiving a loan or advance under the provisions of this a…

68-1225. Certain counties between 16,000 and 20,000. The provisions of this act shall apply to any county having a population of more than sixteen thousand and less than twenty thousand with an assessed tangible valuation of not less than forty-four million dollars and less than …

68-1226. Same; warrants for construction, reconstruction and repair; limitations. The board of county commissioners of any such county is hereby authorized and empowered to issue no-fund warrants during the period of not to exceed three years for the purpose of providing revenue …

68-1227. Same; tax levy; issuance of warrants; interest, registration and redemption. Whenever no-fund warrants are issued under the authority provided by this act, the board of county commissioners shall make a tax levy at the first tax levying period after such warrants are iss…

68-1228. Same; cash basis and budget laws inapplicable. The provisions and restrictions of the cash basis and budget laws of this state shall not apply to the expenditures under the provisions of this act. History: L. 1947, ch. 355, § 4; April 4.

68-1401. Reconstruction of bridges in counties over $90,000,000 valuation; bonds; railroad grade separation structures, apportionment of cost; special assessments, when. Whenever in any county having an assessed valuation for taxation purposes of over ninety million dollars the b…

68-1402. Same; separate contracts for each bridge; sealed bids; surveys and plans. (a) The reconstruction, improvement, removal and relocation of bridges or approaches thereto provided for in this act shall be by written contract separately made and awarded as to each bridge, to …

68-1403. Same; issuance of bonds. In order to pay for the reconstruction, improvement, removal or relocation of any bridge and approaches thereto, provided for in this act, the board of county commissioners of such counties shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered, for an…

68-1404. Counties over $90,000,000 valuation; joint contracts; duties and liabilities of railways; monthly rental contracts. The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with any county, township, city, drainage district, municipality, person, co…

68-1405. Same; bridges over navigable river; sale; removal; contracts for maintenance and repair. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of any county of this state to which this act applies now or hereafter having therein any public bridge or bridges over any navigable…

68-1406. Counties having more than $110,000,000 valuation; construction of new bridge, when; bond issue. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county of this state, having an assessed valuation for taxation purposes of more than one hundred and ten million dollars, ha…

68-1406a. Same; act supplemental. This act is supplemental to and is to be construed as amendatory of and not as repealing K.S.A. 68-1401 to 68-1405. History: L. 1919, ch. 101, § 2; June 17; R.S. 1923, 68-1406, ¶ 2. Revisor's Note: This section was included in the Revised Statute…

68-1407. Same; surveys, plans and specifications; letting of contracts; publication notice; bond of contractor. (a) The county engineer, when directed by the board of county commissioners, shall make all necessary surveys and investigations and prepare plans and specifications fo…

68-1408. Same; issuance of bonds; tax levy. The bonds authorized to be issued by K.S.A. 68-1406 shall be issued and sold as provided by law, and such bonds and the interest thereon shall be paid by a general tax levied upon all the taxable property of the county. History: R.S. 19…

68-1409. Counties over $110,000,000 valuation; use of bridge for railway or other purposes; compensation; use of proceeds; monthly rental contracts. No railway company, other than a street railway company, shall construct, and use any tracks upon, or use any tracks constructed by…

68-1410. Same; contracts for maintenance and repair. All bridges constructed under the provisions of this act shall be under the control of and maintained by the board of county commissioners of the county constructing the same, and such county commissioners shall have power to c…

68-1410a. Ordinance or resolution under K.S.A. 68-1404 and 68-1409; publication; hearing after written objections filed; notice; term of contract. The ordinance or resolution of the board of county commissioners authorizing the execution of any contract relating to any such bridg…

68-1411. Repair of certain bridges in counties between 140,000 and 200,000; bond issue. Any county having a population of not less than 140,000 nor more than 200,000, in which any board of county commissioners, have constructed or reconstructed any bridge or bridges through order…

68-1412. Joint contracts for bridge improvement in certain abutting counties; bonds; tax levy. Counties having a population of not less than twenty thousand and not more than thirty thousand, and having an assessed valuation of not less than thirty-five million dollars and not mo…

68-1413. Replacement, reconstruction or repair of certain bridges damaged by flood or other casualty; use of funds; bonds. Whenever it is necessary to replace, reconstruct or repair any bridge or bridges over any river on any county road, which road connects with a county road of…

68-1414. Same; changing channel of river or erection of structures; use of funds; bonds. Whenever it is necessary to replace, reconstruct, or repair any bridge over any navigable river on any county road, which road connects with a county road of another county within or outside …

68-1501. Authority and purpose. Municipalities, corporations, persons and individuals are hereby authorized and empowered to build and construct bridges, dams (for power, irrigation and other purposes) and obstructions (for the purpose of preserving the banks from erosion) in, ov…

68-1502. Plans and specifications; approval; flood gates. Any municipality, corporation, person or individual desiring to construct a bridge, dam or other obstruction for either public or private purposes, or to repair or maintain a bridge, dam or other obstruction already constr…

68-1503. Approval of plans of prior projects. Any municipality, corporation, person or individual who has already constructed any bridge or bridges, dam or dams or other obstructions in, over or across any of the navigable rivers of the state, shall make application and submit th…

68-1504. Cost of inspection and approval of plans. The services required to be performed by the secretary of transportation under the provisions of K.S.A. 68-1502 and 68-1503, and amendments thereto, shall be free of cost to the municipality, corporation or person requiring such …

68-1505. Inapplicable to certain rivers. This act shall not apply to that portion that lies within or alongside of any drainage district, of any of the navigable rivers of the state, that flow through or alongside any drainage districts organized under chapter 215 [*] of the Sess…

68-1506. Act supplemental to other laws. This act is additional and supplemental to all other statutes and acts of the state, authorizing and regulating the construction and maintenance of bridges, dams and other obstructions in, over and across the navigable rivers of the state:…

68-1701. Designation; jurisdiction of county commissioners. There shall be designated in the state of Kansas a system of roads and highways which, for the purposes of this act, shall be known as the county major collector road system meeting the requirements of title 23 of the co…

68-1703. Same; inclusion of county and township roads; factual data; joint responsibility. In the selection of the mileage of road to be designated in each county for inclusion in the major collector road system consideration shall be given to the inclusion of principal county an…

68-1704. Same; county road mileage limitation inapplicable. Any road mileage selected for inclusion in the major collector road system which is found to be a part of the township system of roads in any county, shall become a county road and shall thereafter come under the jurisdi…

68-1901. Definitions. When used in this act: (a) "A controlled access facility" means a highway, road or street especially designed to expedite and control through and local traffic, and over, from or to which highway, road or street, owners or occupants of abutting property shal…

68-1902. Authority to establish controlled access facilities. The state, county or city highway authorities, acting alone, or cooperating with each other or with any federal, state or local authority, or any other state, are hereby authorized to design, designate, establish, regu…

68-1903. Acquisition of property and property rights. The highway authorities, jointly or severally, may acquire the desired private or public property, including rights of access, light, air or view for controlled access facilities, by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, in …

68-1904. New and existing facilities; grade crossing eliminations. The highway authorities may designate and establish controlled access highways as new and additional facilities, or an existing street or highway may be included within such facility, and they may provide for the …

68-1905. Frontage roads. The highway authorities, in order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, are authorized to design, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, construct, and maintain frontage roads and to exercise the same jurisdiction thereof …

68-20,120. Secretary of transportation, feasibility of new toll projects; factors to be considered; funding; joint proposal for construction of toll project or turnpike project; approval by state finance council. In addition to other powers and duties granted to the secretary of …

68-2001. Definitions. As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent: (a) "Authority" means the Kansas turnpike authority, created by K.S.A. 68-2003, and amendments the…

68-2002. Turnpike projects. In order to provide for the construction of modern express highways or superhighways embodying, where feasible and necessary, safety devices, including center division, ample shoulder widths, longsight distances, multiple lanes in each direction and gr…

68-2003. Kansas turnpike authority; membership; terms; qualifications; vacancies; removal, when; oath or affirmation; officers; quorum; compensation and expenses. (a) There is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be known as the Kansas turnpike authority. The authority …

68-2004. General grant of powers to Kansas turnpike authority. (a) The authority is hereby authorized and empowered to: (1) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2) adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure; (3) maintain an o…

68-2005. Same; incidental powers. The authority shall have power to construct grade separations at intersections of any turnpike project with public highways and to change and adjust the lines and grades of such highways so as to accommodate the same to the design of such grade s…

68-2006. Same; acquisition of property; eminent domain; plans and specifications, when. The authority is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, whenever it shall deem such purchase expedient, solely from funds provided under the authority of this act, such lands,…

68-2007. Turnpike revenue bonds; issuance. The authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution, at one time or from time to time, for the issuance of turnpike revenue bonds of the authority for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of any one or more turnpike …

68-2008. Bonds payable solely or partly from revenues; expenses. Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of any such pol…

68-2009. Use and disposition of tolls and other revenues derived from projects; sinking fund. (a) The authority is hereby authorized to fix, revise, charge and collect tolls for the use of each turnpike project and the different parts or sections thereof, and to contract with any…

68-2010. Trust agreement or resolution providing for bond issues; contents; expenses of. In the discretion of the authority any bonds issued under the provisions of this act may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any…

68-2011. Trust funds; how held and applied. All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this act, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this act. The resolution authorizing th…

68-2012. Remedies of bondholders. Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this act or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust agreement, may, either…

68-2013. Exercise of governmental function; bonds and income from projects and property exempt from taxation. The exercise of the powers granted by this act will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce and prosperity, and …