Kansas · statute · Kan. Stat. Ann. ch. 68 · 471 active provisions
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them wherever they appear in chapter 68 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto: (a) "Highway commissioners," "township board of highway commissioners," "township commissioners," "township boa…
(a) Upon petition of any adjacent landowner, the board of county commissioners may lay out, alter or vacate a road. The board of county commissioners also may layout or alter any road when deemed necessary by the board. (b) The board of county commissioners may vacate any road in the county whenever the board determine…
Before any road is laid out, altered or vacated without the presentation of a petition, the county clerk shall give notice of the proposed action by publication once in the official county newspaper and by sending notice by certified mail to each owner of property adjoining the road, at the address where the owner's ta…
All petitions for laying out or altering a road shall specify the place of beginning, the intermediate points, if any, and the place of termination of such road.
(a) Upon presentation of any petition for a road, or for the alteration or vacation of any road, to the county commissioners, at any regular session of their board, it shall be the duty of such commissioners, if they find the petition to be a legal one, and that the proper bond has been filed, to appoint three disinter…
It shall be the duty of at least one of the petitioners to cause six days' notice to be given in writing to the owner or owners or their agents, if residing in the county, or if such owner be a minor, idiot or insane person, then to the guardian of such person, if a resident of the county, through whose land such road…
It shall be the duty of the commissioners or said viewers or a majority of them, and the county surveyor to meet at the time and place specified in the notice aforesaid, or on the following day thereafter, and they may, if they deem it necessary, take to their assistance two suitable persons as chain carriers and one a…
It shall be the duty of the commissioners or viewers, at the same time that they make their certificate of the view, if favorable, to make also a separate certificate, in writing stating the amount of damage, if any, by them assessed, and to whom, and submit therewith the written application upon which the assessments…
When it shall become necessary to establish a road on a county line, the inhabitants along such line may petition the board of commissioners of their respective counties for a view of said road in the manner hereinbefore provided; and it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners for each of the counties intereste…
All persons required to render services under chapter 68 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, shall receive compensation for each day they shall necessarily be employed, as follows, to wit: On the part of the board of county commissioners while acting as viewers, the us…
The boards of county commissioners of counties along the state line may establish a road in the state of Kansas along such state line in the manner provided by law for the laying out of other public highways: Provided, That the portion of the road established and located on the Kansas side of the state line shall not e…
When it is found necessary to lay out, relocate, alter, widen or vacate a road or highway for the purpose of eliminating sharp turns or other dangerous places, or for the proper construction of a highway, or for the extension of a bridge or culvert, the board of county commissioners shall by order of said board lay out…
(a) Except as provided by subsection (b), it shall be the duty of each and every county engineer to open or cause to be opened all state and county roads and of each and every township trustee to open or cause to be opened all mail routes and township roads which have been or may hereafter be laid out or established th…
The township board of each township may establish by resolution of the board minimum standards for road beds and road drainage.
The width of all county roads shall be determined by the viewers at the time of establishing the same, and shall not be more than one hundred and twenty (120) nor less than sixty (60) feet and in cases where a growing hedge or permanent improvement on or near one side of the proposed road precludes the road being laid…
Whenever the premises of any person shall be so completely surrounded by adjoining lands, the property of others or by such lands and water, as to be without access to any public highway, then such person may petition the board of county commissioners of the county in which such premises lie for a road, and one road on…
In all counties in which there is a township with a population of ten thousand or more outside of the limits of any incorporated city or town, applications for laying out roads, or for viewing, reviewing, widening or altering any road, shall be by petition to the board of county commissioners signed by the owners of no…
Every such petition for laying out, widening or altering a road, shall contain a description of the boundary lines of the benefit district, within the limits hereinafter prescribed; any such benefit district may be diminished, but not increased in size, by either the board of county commissioners or by the district cou…
The board of county commissioners shall set a day for a hearing in connection with the establishment of the benefit district, and the fixing of damages and benefits, which date of hearing shall be not less than three weeks subsequent to the date of fixing of such damages and benefits. It shall thereupon be the duty of…
Any person owning land within the benefit district, and feeling himself aggrieved by the orders made by the board of county commissioners, or viewers, including any order of dismissal by reason of total damages exceeding total benefits, may within ten days from the date of such final order by said board, appeal from th…
Each township trustee within his township is authorized to cause to be erected and kept up at the expense of the township, informational signs at the intersection of any roads under his supervision, containing an inscription in legible letters, directing the way and naming the distance to such cities as are situated on…
Where under the laws of the state of Kansas, now in existence, or that may hereafter be enacted, any road or highway that is not a county road has been declared to be a public road or highway, it shall be the duty of the township board of the township in which such road is located to repair, place and keep in condition…
The county commissioners of any county are hereby empowered, where lands are used largely as pasture lands and wherever in their judgment the convenience of the traveling public will not be materially affected thereby, to authorize and permit the construction and maintenance of fences across public highways under their…
Any person who shall injure or destroy, at any time, or who shall leave open any gate constructed under the provisions of K.S.A. 68-126, contrary to the intent and the purpose of said order, and at a time when by the terms of said order such gate or gates are to remain closed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on co…
(a) Whenever by license or custom the public is permitted to travel through any pasture lands enclosed by fences, and the owner or owners of such land shall give their consent in writing to the designation and laying out of a road across such lands, the board of county commissioners may designate such road as a public…