2006 Kansas Code - 42-727

      42-727.   Same; hearing on petition. The board of directors, at the time and place stated in the notice, or upon an adjourned hearing thereof, shall proceed to hear the petition, and all objections thereto presented in writing by any person concerned. The failure of any person interested or concerned in the district or the proposed addition thereto or the proposed exclusion of lands therefrom, to show cause of objections in writing, shall be deemed and taken as an assent to the change of the boundaries of the district as prayed for in the petition, or such a change as will include a part or all of proposed additional lands or will exclude a part or all of the lands proposed to be excluded. The filing of the petition with the board of directors shall be deemed and taken as an assent on the part of each and all of the petitioners to such a change of the boundaries of the district as may include the whole or any portion of the lands included in the petition or will exclude the whole or any portion of the lands included in the petition.

      History:   L. 1947, ch. 284, § 5; L. 1967, ch. 277, § 2; July 1.