2006 Kansas Code - 24-602

      24-602.   Summons to owners of real estate. Immediately after such articles of association shall have been filed, the clerk of the district court of the county in which the proposed district is located and in case the drainage district be composed of territory situated in the different counties, the clerk of the district court of the county in which the greater portion of the land of the proposed district shall be situated, shall issue a summons as now provided by law, returnable at the next term of the district court directed to the several owners of real estate in said proposed district who may be averred to be benefited thereby, but have not signed said articles of association, which shall be served as summons in civil cases, and in case any owner or owners of real estate in said proposed district are unknown, or are nonresidents, they will be notified in the manner as nonresident defendants are now by law notified, that the articles of association as aforesaid have been filed, and the purpose thereof, and that the real estate of such owner or owners situated in said district, fully describing the same, will be affected thereby, and rendered liable to taxation, or assessment for the purposes of draining said district, and that application will be made to have said district declared a drainage district for the purpose of draining and reclaiming the same.

      History:   L. 1911, ch. 168, § 2; May 22; R.S. 1923, 24-602.