Kansas · statute · Kan. Stat. Ann. ch. 24 · 342 active provisions
That whenever it is required under any law of this state relating to drainage or levees that a petition be signed by resident taxpayers, or taxpayers residing within any district or territory under the terms of said drainage district law, or providing that persons shall be taxpayers or resident taxpayers or taxpayers a…
The attorney general is hereby authorized and directed to institute suits in the name of the state of Kansas for the recovery of any lands situated within the state of Kansas which have been wrongfully reclaimed from the channel of any navigable stream, which land shall thereafter be held by the state subject only to s…
Any land recovered as provided for in the preceding section may be used by any drainage district or other lawful authority for the location, relocation or restoration of the channel of such stream.
Nothing in this act shall be construed as in any manner affecting or repealing any of the provisions of chapter 215, Laws of 1905.
That the board of county commissioners of any county in this state where existing drainage districts are so situated that the drainage and ditches established therein are inadequate to take care of and discharge the surplus surface waters along the highways of any portion of said county are authorized and empowered to…
That to carry out the provisions of this act the board of county commissioners of such county is authorized, empowered and directed to issue its warrants in favor of the persons doing such work or owning such lands and to collect the same in three annual assessments upon the property lying within the limits of the bene…
That this act shall be considered as supplemental to, and in no wise contradictory of or in conflict with the general drainage laws of this state.
Any municipal corporation of any other state, whether organized under a special charter or not, whose limits border upon or are near to any of the boundaries of this state is hereby permitted to contract with drainage districts and other public corporations of this state for co-operation or joint action in building and…
If such contract relates to the building or maintaining of a dike, levee or sewer in any city or drainage district, such city or drainage district shall be a party to the contract, and if outside of any city or drainage district, the county commissioners shall be a party to it. If the contract relates to the diversion…
No contract mentioned in K.S.A. 24-111 shall take effect or be valid until the foreign municipal corporation who is a party to it shall file with the secretary of the state of Kansas its irrevocable written consent that actions against it arising out of such contract, or out of acts or omissions connected with the perf…
The summons provided for in section 2*, shall be directed to the secretary of state, and shall require the defendant to answer by a certain day, not less than forty days nor more than sixty days from its date. It shall be forthwith forwarded by the clerk of the court to the secretary of state, who shall immediately for…
The board of county commissioners of the county wherein a drainage district has been organized, shall designate depositories for the funds in the hands of the county treasurer belonging to such drainage district, and no interest shall be paid thereon.
The board of directors of any such drainage district may allow and pay to the county treasurer such compensation for the additional work enjoined upon him by chapter 215, of the Laws of 1905 as they may deem just, not exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, and such sum when so allowed shall be in additio…
That when any drainage district, organized under the laws of this state, in counties with a population of not less than 90,000 and not more than 135,000, shall have completed the drainage work of such district, and in the opinion of the board of directors further construction of drainage facilities is unnecessary, said…
When the board of directors of any drainage district shall have passed a resolution as provided in K.S.A. 24-117 they shall cause a copy of said resolution to be certified and delivered to the board of county commissioners of the county in which said drainage district, or a major portion thereof, shall be situate. Upon…
After the filing of said resolution and the transfer of all funds of such drainage district to the county treasurer, the board of county commissioners shall be vested with all of the powers and duties of the board of directors as provided by law, and shall have the control, management and supervision of the affairs of…
In all matters pertaining to the engineering and supervision of maintenance of said drainage works the county engineer of such county shall serve in the capacity of engineer and superintendent, under the order of the board of county commissioners, and shall serve without additional compensation except such actual expen…
All moneys held by the county treasurer under the provisions of this act shall be held exclusively for the benefit and use of such drainage district, and from time to time, if the same shall be necessary to provide for the maintenance work in said district, the board of county commissioners shall have authority to levy…
If at any time after the control of the affairs of any drainage district shall have been vested in the board of county commissioners as herein provided, a petition signed by the qualified electors of such district, in an amount equal to fifty percent of the total vote cast for directors at the last general election of…
That when any drainage district organized under the laws of the state of Kansas has heretofore adopted a resolution as provided in K.S.A. 24-117 to 24-122, inclusive, and as provided therein turned the management and maintenance of said drainage district to the board of county commissioners of the county in which said…
For the purpose of acquiring necessary lands, easements or rights of way for maintenance, repairs or improvements of ditches in said drainage district or for construction or development of any new or additional drainage ditches, canals or dikes in said drainage district, and carrying out the provisions of this act, the…
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, drainage or levee district, county, city or township, without first obtaining the approval of plans for the same by the chief engineer of the division of water resources, to construct, cause to be constructed, maintain or cause to be maintained, any levee or other s…
Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270 and upon a proper petition being presented for such purpose, the board of county commissioners of any county may transfer territory from one drainage district organized and incorporated under the laws of this state to any other adjacent drainage district so organized and incor…
The petition for transfer of territory from one drainage district to another shall be addressed to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the drainage districts affected are situated and shall describe the territory to be transferred by metes and bounds, or, if platted, by appropriate descriptions as…
Whenever a petition in conformity to K.S.A. 24-128, signed by the board of directors of both of the affected drainage districts shall be presented to the board of county commissioners of the proper county, it shall be the duty of such board of county commissioners forthwith to fix a time for the hearing of such petitio…