2006 Kansas Code - 12-631k

      12-631k.   Same; liens; collection. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), if any person, firm, corporation, organization, political or taxing subdivision of the state or other entity other than the state of Kansas and the federal government residing, occupying, using or operating on premises connected to a sanitary sewer, neglects, fails or refuses to pay the service charges fixed by the governing body of the city or of such township sewer district for the operation of the sewage disposal system, such charges shall constitute a lien upon the real estate served by the connection to the sewer. The amount of such service charges shall be certified by the clerk of the city or of the township sewer district to the county clerk of the county in which the city or township sewer district is located, to be placed on the tax roll for collection, subject to the same penalties and collected in like manner as other taxes are by law collectible. The governing body is hereby authorized to refuse the delivery of water through the pipes and mains of a publicly owned waterworks until such time as such charges are fully paid.

      (b)   The lien established by subsection (a) shall not apply whenever the use of the sewage disposal system has been contracted for by a tenant and not by the landlord or owner of the property affected.

      History:   L. 1953, ch. 120, § 5; L. 2004, ch. 107, § 1; L. 2005, ch. 90, § 1; July 1.