Kansas · statute · Kan. Stat. Ann. ch. 82a · 438 active provisions
When any person, corporation or city may be desirous of erecting and maintaining a milldam or dam for generating power upon his, her or its own land across any watercourse, and shall deem it necessary to raise the water by means of such dam, or occupying grounds for mill yard or power plant structures, so as to damage…
He, she or it shall proceed to exercise the right of eminent domain in the manner provided in K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive.
No action for damages occasioned by the erection of a milldam shall be hereafter sustained unless such action be brought within two years after the erection of said dam, nor any action for the maintenance of a dam already erected unless brought within one year after the passage of this act.
Any person may obtain a right to maintain a milldam heretofore erected, or raise a milldam, upon his or her own land, by complying with the provisions of this act, adapting his or her petition to the nature of the case.
Any person having obtained the right to erect and maintain, or to maintain or raise any dam, under the provisions of this act, who shall not, within one year thereafter, begin to build said dam and finish the same, or who, having already erected said dam, shall, for the same length of time, fail to proceed, under the p…
Whenever the channel, or any part thereof, of any navigable stream in the state of Kansas has heretofore been, or shall hereafter be, suddenly changed or altered by such stream establishing a new channel by flood or avulsion and the title to the abandoned channel is not controlled by K.S.A. 24-454, the secretary of sta…
In the event that the channel, or any part thereof, of any navigable stream has heretofore been, or shall hereafter be, altered or changed in the manner described in K.S.A. 82a-201, the secretary of state, as soon as practicable, shall enter into negotiations with the owner or owners of the title to such new channel fo…
In the event that the secretary of state and the owner or owners, of such new channel cannot agree upon a purchase price for the new channel, the secretary of state shall cause proceedings to be instituted to obtain title in fee to the new channel by condemnation. In the event the amount of money necessary to purchase…
For the purpose of acquiring the new channel, the secretary of state shall cause the land in the corresponding abandoned channel to be surveyed by a surveyor, selected by him or her, and shall thereafter sell and convey the same, or any part thereof, by grant or patent. Any such survey and appropriate field notes, maps…
Whenever a sale of land is made under article 2 of chapter 82a of Kansas Statutes Annotated, the secretary of state shall cause to be executed and delivered a good and sufficient deed or patent, conveying to the purchaser or purchasers of said land, all of the title of the state of Kansas therein.
(a) Whenever the channel, or any part thereof, of any navigable stream in or bordering upon the state of Kansas has previously been, or shall hereafter be, changed or altered by such stream establishing a new channel by flood or avulsion, so that any land situated between the banks of such stream at high-water mark sha…
The proceeds arising from the sale of any such land shall be remitted by the secretary of state to the state treasurer who shall deposit the entire amount thereof in the state treasury to the credit of the state general fund.
Upon any sale being made and completed as hereinbefore provided, the secretary of state shall cause to be executed and delivered a good and sufficient grant or patent conveying to the purchaser or purchasers of said land, or tracts of land, so sold, all of the title of the state of Kansas in and to each of said tracts…
(a) The secretary of state is hereby authorized to lease or grant a construction and maintenance easement to a public utility in the tract of land which forms the island in the Kansas river in the South ½ of Section 11 and the North ½ of Section 14 in Township 12 South, Range 19 East of the Sixth Principal Meridian, in…
(a) The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to grant an easement on tracts of land owned by the state of Kansas along the south bank of the Kansas river in Douglas county and within and without the city of Lawrence, Kansas, to the city of Lawrence, Kansas, for use as a nature trail and for similar park…
The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to grant an easement to the MBPXL corporation on a tract of land owned by the state of Kansas along the south bank of the Arkansas river in the Northeast ¼ of the Northeast ¼ of the Southeast¼ of Section 5 in Township 27 South, Range 24 West in Ford county, Kansa…
(a) The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to grant an easement to the city of Topeka, Kansas, on a tract of land owned by the state of Kansas along the south and north banks of the Kansas river described as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section 26, township 1…
The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be conveyed by quitclaim deed, without consideration, any title of the state of Kansas in any tract of land located in Atchison county or Doniphan county between the west Missouri river meander line established by the Kansas survey of 1872 and the eas…
The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be conveyed by quitclaim deed, without consideration, any title of the state of Kansas in any tract of land located in the abandoned Kansas river channel located within the corporate limits of the city of Ogden, Kansas, as of the effective date of thi…
(a) The secretary of state is hereby authorized to grant a construction and maintenance easement to Finney county in, along and across the Arkansas river at a location in the Southeast ¼ of the Northeast ¼ of the Northwest ¼ of Section 23, Township 24 South, Range 33 West, in Finney county, Kansas, for the purpose of c…
(a) The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to grant a permanent sanitary sewer easement to the city of Ogden on a tract of land owned by the state of Kansas in the following described real property: A tract of land lying 40 feet on each side of a line located in the northwest quarter of section 18, to…
(a) As used in this act: (1) "Conservation project" means any project or activity that the director of the Kansas water office determines will assist in restoring, protecting, rehabilitating, improving, sustaining or maintaining the banks of the Arkansas, Kansas or Missouri rivers from the effects of erosion; (2) "dire…
(a) The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to grant an easement on land owned by the state of Kansas along the north bank of the Kansas river in Wyandotte county and within and without the city of Kansas City, Kansas, to the unified government of Wyandotte county/Kansas City for use as a boat ramp. Su…
(a) (1) Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d), without the prior written consent or permit of the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture, it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, association, corporation or agency or political subdivision of the state…
It is the intent of the legislature by this act to provide for the exclusive regulation of construction, operation and maintenance of all dams or other water obstructions by the state to the extent required for the protection of public safety. All dams or other water obstructions are declared to be under the jurisdicti…