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2009 Kansas Code
Chapter 24 DRAINAGE AND LEVEES
Article 6 DRAINAGE IN ONE OR MORE COUNTIES
- 24-601. Formation of drainage district by owners of swamp or overflowed lands; articles of association.
- 24-601a. Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
- 24-602. Summons to owners of real estate.
- 24-603. Objections of landowners heard by district court; finding of fact; exclusion of land not benefited.
- 24-604. Record of proceedings.
- 24-605. Elections, supervisors and bonds and no-fund warrant issues; vacancies.
- 24-606
- 24-606a. Annual election of supervisors; notice.
- 24-607. Oath of supervisors.
- 24-608. Organization of board of supervisors; district treasurer; county treasurer's duties.
- 24-609. Topographical survey; classification and basis for assessment of benefits; maps and profile; engineer.
- 24-610. Drain commissioner; term; duties; bond; oath.
- 24-611. Annexation of land to district; procedures; limitations.
- 24-611a. Agreements to allow drainage from land located outside district.
- 24-612. Rights of way and removal of obstructions in streams; eminent domain proceedings.
- 24-613. Hearing of objections to report of engineer; notice; filing of report.
- 24-614. Who may file objections to report; adjournments of hearings.
- 24-615. Powers and duties of board upon hearing objections to report; no appeal, when; board may modify decision.
- 24-616. Hearings to objections to engineer report; costs; fees.
- 24-617. Appeal from decision of board; bond; transcript; procedure.
- 24-618. Tax levies; installments; correction of assessments; certification of levies.
- 24-619. Supplemental assessments.
- 24-620. Expenses apportioned to street, highway or railroad; collection.
- 24-621. Issuance of bonds; levy to pay bonds; temporary loan.
- 24-622. Resolution for bond issue.
- 24-623. Lien of assessments; sinking fund.
- 24-624. Sale of bonds; use of proceeds; deposit of money.
- 24-625. Powers and duties of board; works affecting highway, railroad or state property.
- 24-626. Letting of contracts for improvements; bond of contractor; work under direction of drain commissioner.
- 24-627. Scope of act.
- 24-628. Outlet or discharge of more than one district into stream; apportionment of cost.
- 24-629. Outlet for lateral drains.
- 24-630. Subdistrict where land separated from drainage; petition.
- 24-631
- 24-632. Warrants.
- 24-633. Compensation and expenses of officers and employees.
- 24-634. Levy upon lands for repair of improvements; assessment of costs where repair made necessary by negligence of landowner.
- 24-635. Overseers; appointment; powers and duties.
- 24-636. Civil liability for obstructing or injuring property; penalty.
- 24-637. Construction of act; defects in assessments; modification of assessments.
- 24-638. Contest of assessments.
- 24-639. District to be body politic and corporate; corporate name; general powers.
- 24-640. Construction of act; petition required, when.
- 24-640a. Perpetual succession.
- 24-641. Legalizing drainage districts created by district court or board of county commissioners.
- 24-641a. Same; special election of officers, when.
- 24-642. Same; boundaries legalized.
- 24-643. Same; bond issues legalized.
- 24-644. Same; tax levies and assessments legalized.
- 24-645. Same; acts done in conformity to law legalized.
- 24-646. Same; application of act.
- 24-647. Disorganization of drainage district; petition; nature of hearing; resolution; board of trustees.
- 24-648. Same; duties of trustees.
- 24-649. Same; how funds secured by trustees; tax levy.
- 24-650. Same; notice of disorganization; filing of claims.
- 24-651. Same; funds for payment of claims.
- 24-652. Same; care and sale of property.
- 24-653. Same; final report and discharge of trustees.
- 24-654. Renewal, extension and restoration of articles of incorporation; petition to court; record.
- 24-655. Same; validation of prior acts; vesting of property rights and credits; liabilities.
- 24-656. Drainage districts organized with territory in two or more counties; definitions.
- 24-657. Same; authorization.
- 24-658. Same; petition by verified landowners; county clerk to furnish record of ownership, when.
- 24-658a. Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
- 24-659. Same; contents of petition; form; map.
- 24-660. Same; circulation of counterpart of petition; city territory included, when; copies of petitions filed with county clerk and secretary of state; findings and endorsement by secretary of state; notice to steering committee.
- 24-661. Same; certification to chief engineer; investigation, report and approval or disapproval; approval required, when; transmittal of approval to secretary of state and to chairman of steering committee.
- 24-662. Same; meeting of steering committee, notice; committee constitutes initial board of directors; election of officers; election on organization of district; certification of results to secretary of state; certificate of incorporation, issuance and recording; action attacking incorporation, limitation.
- 24-663. Same; payment of costs and expenses when proposed district not approved; tax levies; disposition of funds.
- 24-664. Same; district as body politic and corporate; powers; designation of home office.
- 24-665. Same; no-fund warrants to pay initial organization and administrative expenses; limitation; tax levy to pay; annual ascertainment and certification of valuation in joint district.
- 24-665a. Same; annual meeting; notice; elections.
- 24-666. Same; act supplemental to existing laws.
- 24-667. Extension of territory of joint district; petition; approval of secretary of state and chief engineer.
- 24-668. Dissolution of portion of joint district; petition, contents; hearing; findings; report; certificate of dissolution; powers and duties of chief engineer.
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