Chapter 80, TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS

80-904. Same; petition; election; duties of county commissioners. The purchasing and securing of suitable grounds for the purpose of this act or the acquiring and taking over of parks and cemeteries already in existence, either by becoming absolute owners or as trustees under exi…

80-905. Parks and cemeteries in one or more townships; establishment. Any municipal township, or, two or more such townships combined in any county in this state is authorized to provide and secure to the inhabitants of such township, or townships, whether by purchase or acquisit…

80-906. Same; petition; election; duties of county commissioners. The purchasing and securing of suitable grounds for the purpose of this act, or the acquiring and taking over of parks and cemeteries already in existence, whether by becoming absolute owners, or as trustee, under …

80-907. Same; tax levy for sinking fund; limitation. Any township, or townships, issuing bonds under this act shall annually levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest thereon, and after five years an amount sufficient to create a sinking fund to pay the principal at maturity; and…

80-908. Same; cooperation by cities of second or third classes; petition; ordinance; tax levy. Whenever any cities of the second or third class located within the county shall desire to cooperate with any municipal township, or townships, under the provisions of this act, the gov…

80-909. Same; sections K.S.A. 80-905 through 80-909 supplemental. This act shall be supplemental to and in nowise contradictory of the provisions of chapter 295 [*] of the Laws of Kansas for 1921. History: L. 1923, ch. 241, § 5; March 3; R.S. 1923, 80-909. * "Chapter 295," see 80…

80-910. Parks or cemeteries; petition under K.S.A. 80-901 through 80-904; order for election. The county commissioners, for such township, upon the presentation of the foregoing petition and such other conditions as may be deemed advisable, to the chairman of the board, shall con…

80-911. Same; bonds; issuance. If a majority of the qualified electors voting at such election vote for such purchase and use, and issue of bonds, the board of county commissioners, for and in behalf of such township, shall issue such bonds as may be required by such proposition …

80-912. Same; cemetery lots; record and charges. Any citizen of any township owning and maintaining a cemetery under the provisions of this act, upon the payment of one dollar to the trustee of such township, which money shall be credited to the contingent fund, shall have the ri…

80-913. Same; use of funds; annual report; unlawful acts. The town board of such township shall have full authority and power to use the funds provided by the issue of bonds as hereinbefore conditioned, in purchasing, maintaining and improving the parks and cemeteries owned in su…

80-914. Purchase of unsold school lands for cemetery or burial ground. Any municipal township of this state is hereby authorized and shall be entitled to purchase and acquire for a cemetery or burial ground any quantity of land not exceeding five acres in any one tract or lot of …

80-915. Acquisition of cemetery association or corporation property; maintenance. Whenever any cemetery association or corporation maintaining or owning a cemetery shall desire to convey such cemetery to the municipal township in which the cemetery is located for the purpose of m…

80-916. Care of abandoned cemeteries. From and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the township board of any township within the state of Kansas in which there is situated an abandoned cemetery to provide for the care of such cemetery and to provide for the prop…

80-917. Cemetery chapel. Any township in the state of Kansas owning or operating as trustees a cemetery is authorized and empowered to procure, acquire and control a building to be used as a chapel in connection with such cemetery in which to hold burial or funeral services and s…

80-918. Same; petition. The township board shall not acquire, secure nor operate a chapel as provided in K.S.A. 80-917 except upon the application so to do through a petition presented to it signed by at least twenty-five percent of the resident taxpayers of the township. History…

80-919. Same; election; site; erection; tax levy, limitation. Upon the receipt of such petition the township board shall call an election at which the question of the acquiring of a site for and the building of a chapel as provided hereinbefore shall be submitted to the electors …

80-923. Board of trustees of joint township parks or cemeteries; tax levies. Where two or more townships in the state of Kansas combine, and purchase or acquire or act as trustee for grounds for a park or parks, or cemetery or cemeteries, the township board of each of such combin…

80-932. Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries. The township board of any township is hereby authorized and empowered to levy an annual tax on all taxable tangible property in such townships, including such property of cities of the third class, for the purpose o…

80-933. Lease of lake or park; conditions; publication; protest petition. Whenever the title to any real property within the area of which there may be included a lake or park may be vested in a township, the township board is hereby authorized to lease such lake or park or any p…

80-934. Cemetery abandoned by private association; title vested in township. Any private township cemetery association organized under the laws of Kansas as a nonprofit corporation which has failed to operate and maintain its cemetery for a period of more than ten (10) years and …

80-935. Same; petition to district court; order transferring title. Any member of the township board or any resident of a township in which the cemetery was organized and in which the cemetery is located may petition the district court of the county setting forth facts authorizin…

80-936. Same; care and maintenance by township. After the order providing for the transfer and vesting of the cemetery property in the township has become final, the township board shall thereafter care for and maintain the cemetery formerly the property of the cemetery associati…

80-937. Township lakes in certain townships; issuance of bonds for restoration; election. Any municipal township having an assessed tangible valuation of more than three million dollars ($3,000,000) and less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) which has heretofore acquired a t…

80-938. Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries; election upon petition. In any county having a population of not less than sixteen thousand (16,000) and not more than eighteen thousand (18,000) in which there is located a city of the first class and in which ther…

80-939. Recreational facilities; election; tax levies. (a) Whenever the governing body of any township proposes to provide, establish and maintain recreational facilities and to levy an annual tax therefor, such proposition shall be submitted to the qualified electors of such tow…

80-940. Disorganization of cemetery districts in certain townships; property transferred to township. If the board of township trustees of any township or townships located in a county having a population of more than forty-three thousand (43,000) and less than forty-eight thousa…

80-941. Conveyance of cemetery property to Attica township in Sedgwick county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund. (a) The township board of Attica township in Sedgwick county is hereby authorized to acquire from the Pleasant Ridge cemetery association, with the consent …

80-942. Conveyance of cemetery property to Tecumseh township in Shawnee county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund. (a) The township board of Tecumseh township in Shawnee county is hereby authorized to acquire from the Bethel cemetery association, with the consent of suc…

80-943. Conveyance of cemetery property to Topeka township in Shawnee county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund. (a) The township board of Topeka township in Shawnee county is hereby authorized to acquire from the Lynn Creek cemetery association, with the consent of suc…

80-1101a. Same; when disorganization effective. Such disorganization of a township hereunder shall be effective upon the filing with the county clerk of such county the resignation of the elective incumbent officers of such township or, in any event, at the expiration of the term…

80-1102a. Same; application of other laws; bonded debt; road and maintenance agreement. If any such township so disorganized shall at the time of its disorganization have any indebtedness, the board of county commissioners shall provide for the payment thereof in the manner provi…

80-1103. Same; tax levy to pay township indebtedness, limitation; warrants. If any township so disorganized shall at the time of its disorganization have any indebtedness, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the county to provide for the payment of such outstandin…

80-1104. Same; records and funds. The books, papers, funds and any other assets belonging to such township so disorganized shall be delivered over by the officers thereof to the county commissioners, who shall dispose of said assets, and all money received therefor shall be inclu…

80-1105. Disorganization and reorganization in certain counties under 3,000. Townships in counties containing a population of less than 3,000 inhabitants and in which there is no township indebtedness may be abolished and new townships created as in this act provided. History: L.…

80-1109. Consolidation of two or more townships; procedure; resolution, agreement, election. Two or more townships may consolidate into a single township which may be one of the consolidated townships or a new township to be formed by means of such consolidation. The members of t…

80-1110. Disorganization of certain townships in counties having county unit road system. Townships located in counties which have adopted the county unit road system as provided by K.S.A. 68-515b, and amendments thereto, or in townships having more than 200 residents may be diso…

80-1111. Same; determination by board of county commissioners; resolution of intent; public hearings; petition opposing disorganization; resolution disorganizing township. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any such county shall determine that it is in the best interes…

80-1112. Same; effective date of disorganization and attachment of territory. The disorganization of any township and the attachment of the territory thereof to another township or townships under the provisions of this act shall be effective for other than tax purposes upon the …

80-1113. Same; disposition of books, records and assets; payment of outstanding indebtedness. All books, papers, records, moneys and other assets belonging to any township disorganized under the provisions of this act shall be delivered by the officers thereof to the board of cou…

80-1114. Same; outstanding indebtedness; levy of taxes for payment; bonded indebtedness. If any township disorganized under the provisions of this act shall at the time of such disorganization have any outstanding indebtedness, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of …

80-1115. Same; adoption of budget and levy of taxes prior to effective date for tax purposes. Whenever the disorganization of any township shall take effect for the purpose of taxation on the last day of December following such disorganization, the township board of the township …

80-1116. Same; right of elector of township being disorganized to vote and become candidate for office in townships to which territory will attach. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county shall have adopted a resolution providing for the disorganization of any to…

80-1117. Disorganization and consolidation of townships with no residents; procedure; transfer of assets and debts. (a) If any township has no residents, as certified by the county clerk of the county in which such township is located, the board of county commissioners, by resolu…

80-1118. Disorganization of certain townships by county commission; attachment of territory to other township; procedure, hearing, protest petition; election. From and after July 1, 2008: (a) The board of county commissioners may disorganize any township if any of the following a…

80-1201. Destruction of prairie dogs, moles and gophers; expense from general fund. The township board of any township in this state, at any regular or special meeting, is hereby authorized to purchase material and to employ one or more suitable persons to destroy prairie dogs, m…

80-1202. Eradication of prairie dogs; duties of township trustees; entry upon land, exceptions; assessment of costs. In addition to the duties now prescribed by law for township trustees, in counties infested by prairie dogs, they may do and perform the following services: That t…

80-1203. Same; report of expense to county commissioners; tax levy. The trustees of the several townships infested by prairie dogs shall appear before the board of county commissioners of their respective counties at their annual meeting in August of each year, when they convene …

80-1204. Same; compensation of trustees and assistants. The trustees of each township and their assistants shall receive as compensation for their services for the time actually and necessarily employed. Such compensation shall be paid only out of the fund of the county created b…

80-1205. Same; custody and disbursement of funds. The township trustees shall be the custodians of the fund created by this act, and disburse the same on vouchers audited by the township boards at their regular quarterly meetings and warrants drawn on the treasurer for the same: …

80-1206. Same; payment of moneys to township treasurers. The county treasurers of the several counties of this state are hereby authorized and directed to pay over to the several township treasurers of their respective counties all the moneys collected for the purpose designated …