Title VII — CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

77.500. May also regulate and control the construction of buildings. — The city council may also regulate and control the construction of buildings, the construction and cleaning of fireplaces, chimneys, stoves and stovepipes, ovens, boilers, kettles, forges or any apparatus used…

77.505. Electricians and electric contractors, certain cities third class may license and regulate — exceptions — examination and inspection requirements. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 5, the city council of each third class city, including a city of the third class in a …

77.510. May regulate lumber yards — running at large of animals and fowls — provide pounds and impose penalties. — The council may prescribe limits within the city within which no lumber yard or wood yard or coal yard shall be kept, and may regulate, restrain and prohibit the ere…

77.520. May control streets, sidewalks, amusements. — The council may prohibit and prevent all encroachments into and upon the sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys and other public places of the city, and may provide for the removal of all obstructions from the sidewalks, curbston…

77.530. Powers of council, quarantine, condemnation, police power outside city. — The council may make regulations and pass ordinances for the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, and for the abatement of the same, and may make quarantine laws and …

77.550. Inspection, weighing. — The council may prescribe rules and provide methods by ordinance for the inspection, weighing and measuring of any commodity sold in the city in all cases not otherwise provided for by law, and may provide for the selling, weighing and inspecting o…

77.560. Slaughterhouses, stockyards. — The council shall have power, by ordinance, to secure the general health of the inhabitants of the city by any measure to regulate, suppress or abate slaughterhouses, slaughtering animals, stockyards, soap and other factories, pigpens, cow s…

77.570. Police regulations. — The council shall enact ordinances to prohibit and suppress houses of prostitution and other disorderly houses and practices, and gambling houses and all kinds of public indecencies, and may prohibit the selling or giving intoxicating liquors to any …

77.590. Council may make ordinances and rules and regulations and establish penalties for violation. — For any purpose or purposes mentioned in this chapter, the council may enact and make all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations; and they may enact and make all such ordin…

77.600. Claims and suits for damages — notice. — No action shall be maintained against any city organized under the laws of this state as a city of the third class on account of any injuries growing out of any defect or unsafe condition of or on any bridge, boulevard, street, sid…

77.610. Shall give bond on appeal. — Such city, in taking an appeal or prosecuting a writ of error in any judicial proceeding, shall give bonds as required by law; but it is hereby released from the obligation of law to furnish security therefor. All such bonds shall be executed …

77.650. Recall of elected officials — procedure — limitations. — 1. The holder of any elective office in a third class city may be removed by the qualified voters of such city by recall petition in accordance with the procedure set out in sections 77.650 to 77.660 subject to the …

77.655. Recall petitions, examination and certification by county clerk — amended, when — duties of clerk and council. — Within ten days from the date of filing such petition, the county clerk of such third class city shall examine and from the voters' register ascertain whether …

77.660. Recall petition, election on, when, form of question — removal of official, when, vacancy created. — 1. A special election shall be held on the recall petition as soon as practicable and as may be determined by the election authority of the county. The question to be pres…

77.670. Reserve funds, certain third class cities may establish (including North Kansas City). — The governing body of any third class city with a population of more than four thousand but less than four thousand five hundred inhabitants that is located in a county of the first c…

77.675. Ordinances, adoption and repeal process (City of Farmington). — 1. In addition to the process for passing ordinances provided in section 77.080, the council of any city of the third classification with more than fifteen thousand but fewer than seventeen thousand inhabitan…

[Repealed or reserved.]

77.703. Contractual rights not invalidated by dissolution. — No dissolution of the corporation shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to the corporation or to any person or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on the corporation. ­­-------- (L. 2016 S.…

77.706. Trustee to be appointed — oath — bond. — Whenever the county governing body shall dissolve any city of the third classification, the county governing body shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the corporation so dissolved, and such trustee, before ente…

77.709. Powers of trustee. — The trustee shall have power to prosecute and defend to final judgment all suits instituted by or against the corporation, collect all moneys due the same, liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and for that purpose shall sell any property bel…

77.712. Employment of counsel, report to county governing body — compensation of trustee. — The trustee shall employ counsel whenever necessary in the discharge of his or her duties and shall make a report of the proceedings to the county governing body at each regular term there…

77.715. Moneys to be paid over to county treasurer, when — all records to be delivered to county clerk. — When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the corporation and shall have paid all debts due by the corporation, he or she shall pay over to the county treasurer all m…