Chapter 80 — TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS

80-503. Records open for inspection. The records and other books of the township clerk and treasurer shall always be open for public inspection. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 31; March 11; R.S. 1923, 80-503. Attorney General's Opinions: Township clerk; duties. 81-288. Previous |…

80-504. History: L. 1872, ch. 203, § 1; R.S. 1923, 80-504; Repealed, L. 1997, ch. 15, § 1; July 1.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…

80-505. Destruction of certain records; definitions. As used in this act: "Township" means any township in the state of Kansas; and "board" means the township clerk, township treasurer and township trustee acting as a board. History: L. 1963, ch. 502, § 1; June 30. Previous | Nex…

80-506. Same; resolution; records subject to destruction. The board of any township may, by resolution adopted by a majority vote of its members, authorize the township officer in charge thereof to destroy any of the following records, documents or papers which have been on file …

[Repealed or reserved.]

80-605. Office of justice of peace abolished; transfer of books, records and documents; acts of justice declared legal and valid. The office of justice of the peace is hereby abolished throughout the state. Within ten (10) days after the effective date of this act, every justice …

[Repealed or reserved.]

[Repealed or reserved.]

80-701. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 38; R.S. 1923, 80-701; L. 1973, ch. 134, § 56; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 446, § 27; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Section cited; power of deputy sheriff to serve summons. Baxter v. Yeagley, 8 Kan. App. 657, 56 P. 509. 2. Constable cannot serve co…

80-702. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 39; R.S. 1923, 80-702; L. 1973, ch. 134, § 57; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 446, § 27; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Constables may only arrest outside of county when in fresh pursuit. State, ex rel., v. Dreiling, 136 Kan. 78, 12 P.2d 735. Rehearing…

80-707. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 44; R.S. 1923, 80-707; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 446, § 27; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Scho…

[Repealed or reserved.]

80-801. History: L. 1889, ch. 169, § 1; R.S. 1923, 80-801; L. 1943, ch. 321, § 1; L. 1945, ch. 378, § 1; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 485, § 24; July 1. Revisor's Note: Later act, see 12-1218 through 12-1235. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archiv…

80-802. History: L. 1889, ch. 169, § 3; R.S. 1923, 80-802; L. 1943, ch. 321, § 2; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 485, § 24; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Cited in holding township trustee, treasurer and clerk constitute township board. Johnson v. Reno County Comm'rs, 147 Kan. 211, 227, 75 …

80-803. History: L. 1889, ch. 169, § 4; R.S. 1923, 80-803; L. 1943, ch. 321, § 3; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 485, § 24; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Doc…

80-804. History: L. 1943, ch. 331, § 1; L. 1949, ch. 496, § 1; Repealed, L. 1969, ch. 469, § 1; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Scho…

80-805. History: L. 1947, ch. 491, § 1; Repealed, L. 1969, ch. 469, § 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 Finance Documents US…

80-808. Carnegie libraries; warrants for repair and reconstruction. The township board of any township which maintains and operates a township library which is known as a Carnegie library is hereby authorized and empowered to issue no-fund warrants in an amount not exceeding $4,0…

[Repealed or reserved.]

[Repealed or reserved.]

80-901. Parks or cemeteries; establishment. Any municipal township in any county in the state is authorized to provide and secure to the inhabitants thereof, either by purchase or by acquisition, from any person or persons, or from any cemetery organization, corporation or associ…

80-902. Same; bonds; limitation. In order to pay any expenditures for the purposes contemplated by this act, as amended, such municipal township may issue the bonds of such township in the manner provided by law, in an amount not to exceed two percent of the assessed valuation th…

80-903. Tax levies for bonds and interest and for expenses and improvements. Any township 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 matu…

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 …

80-922. History: L. 1937, ch. 384, § 1; Repealed, L. 1947, ch. 480, § 1; June 30. Source or prior law: L. 1935, ch. 317, § 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session D…

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…

80-931. History: L. 1941, ch. 398, § 1; L. 1947, ch. 478, § 1; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 317, § 1; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Scho…

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…