2006 Kansas Code - 42-358

      42-358.   Petition for district; contents; survey. Whenever the owners of land within any proposed irrigation district who shall be residents of the county in which said proposed irrigation district is located shall desire the erection of such district as provided for in K.S.A. 42-357, they shall cause to be presented to the board of county commissioners of such county a petition signed by not less than three-fourths of the owners of land within said proposed district who are residents of such county, which petition shall define the boundaries of said irrigation district, and shall ask for the erection of such district. Such petition shall be accompanied by an outlined map or plat showing the tracts of territory to be erected into such district, together with the numbers of sections and parts of the sections of land to compose such irrigation district; and said map or plat shall contain a drawing and profile of the proposed main ditch to the source of supply, and of all other ditches and laterals proposed to be constructed or purchased for the purpose of irrigating said described lands in said proposed district.

      And said petition shall be accompanied by an estimate to be made by the county engineer of such county, if such engineer be then in the employ of such county, and if not, by the county surveyor, of the probable cost of the building of said main ditch, ditches and laterals and all other works necessary to be built in order to furnish a sufficient supply of water to irrigate the lands in said proposed district; or the costs of reconstruction and repair of such ditches, laterals and other works in case it is proposed to purchase the same; and at any time after the filing of such petition the county commissioners may, on the written application of any ten of such petitioners, order such county engineer or surveyor to make the estimates herein provided for, and he shall receive for his work and labor such reasonable compensation as such board of commissioners shall allow.

      History:   L. 1891, ch. 133, art. 7, § 2; R.S. 1923, 42-358; L. 1929, ch. 204, § 1; March 16.