2006 Kansas Code - 19-1403

      19-1403.   County engineer as surveyor, when; qualifications, powers and duties of county surveyor. The county engineer shall perform all the duties now or hereafter required by law to be performed by the county surveyor, except in counties having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) and not more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000), and having a city of the first class of seventy-five thousand (75,000) or more population, which counties shall have a county surveyor regularly elected as provided by law, who shall be invested with the powers and duties pertaining to the office of county surveyor. No person shall be eligible to hold the office of county surveyor or perform the duties thereof who is not a practical and competent surveyor. In case there is no such practical and competent surveyor in any county who will accept such office, and where such facts are certified by the county commissioners of any county, then some practical and competent surveyor may be appointed to such office from any other county. This act shall be so construed as to permit any such person to be county surveyor of one or more counties at the same time.

      History:   R.S. 1923, 19-1403; L. 1959, ch. 131, § 2; April 2.