2006 Kansas Code - 80-1116

      80-1116.   Same; right of elector of township being disorganized to vote and become candidate for office in townships to which territory will attach. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county shall have adopted a resolution providing for the disorganization of any township under the provisions of this act and attachment of the territory thereof to another township or townships and the time for the filing of a petition in opposition thereto has expired, without the filing of a valid and sufficient petition in opposition thereto, prior to the date fixed by law for the filing of nomination papers by candidates for township offices, or prior to the date fixed for the holding of primary and general elections for the election of township officers, but the effective date for the disorganization of such township and the attachment of the territory thereof to another township shall not become effective until the expiration of the terms of office of the officers holding such offices, any qualified elector residing within the township being disorganized may become a candidate and may be nominated and elected to an office of the township to which the territory in which he or she resides shall be attached and made a part of at the time fixed by law for the taking and holding of such office. Any qualified elector residing within the township being disorganized may vote at such primary or general election for the election of township officers of the township to which the territory in which he or she resides shall be attached and made a part of at the time fixed by law for the taking of office by officers elected at such primary or general election.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 471, § 7; April 25.