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2013 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 24 DRAINAGE AND LEVEES
Article 12 WATERSHED DISTRICTS
- Section 24-1201 Title of act.
- Section 24-1201a Declaration of public necessity for creation of districts; power; benefits.
- Section 24-1202 Definitions.
- Section 24-1203 Establishment of district by petition.
- Section 24-1203a Establishment of district initiated by board of county commissioners.
- Section 24-1204 Contents of petition; form.
- Section 24-1205 Petition, circulation; inclusion of city or part thereof within proposed boundaries, identification; filing and determination of sufficiency of petition.
- Section 24-1206 Sufficient petition transmitted to chief engineer; investigation, report and approval or disapproval; approval required, when; transmittal of approval to secretary of state and to chairperson of steering committee.
- Section 24-1207 Meeting of steering committee; notice; election of board of directors; officers; election on organization of district; voting places and election procedures; certification of results to secretary of state; certificate of incorporation, issuance and recordation, when; actions attacking incorporation, limitations.
- Section 24-1208 Payment of costs and expenses when petition or resolution is disapproved by engineer or defeated by voters; tax levy.
- Section 24-1209 Corporate powers and duties.
- Section 24-1210 Directors; number; terms; expenses.
- Section 24-1211 Election of directors at annual meeting; report of financial condition, projects and activities; notice and conduct of elections; vacancies; changes in number of directors or date of annual meeting; notice; procedure.
- Section 24-1212 Open meetings of directors; notice; quorum.
- Section 24-1213 General plan, estimate of costs and information as to benefits; transmittal to chief engineer, when; open to public; report to directors.
- Section 24-1214 Financing proposed projects; methods; resolution as to costs; public hearing; notice, contents; appearances; written statement required; transmittal of written statements to chief engineer; adoption, modification or rejection of general plan or method of financing; official general plan and official method of financing; resubmissions, when.
- Section 24-1214a Districts adopting general plan prior to April 1, 1961; method of financing; procedure.
- Section 24-1215 Approval of bond issue by qualified voters of district required; notice; election procedures; tax levies for financing costs; resolution, publication; protest petition; election.
- Section 24-1216 Order and procedure as to specific projects; surveys, plans, specifications and estimates of costs; filing with secretary of board; open to inspection; transmittal of approved plans to chief engineer, when; review of general plan; revisions of plan; report by chief engineer, requirements.
- Section 24-1217 Computation of special assessments; appraisement and apportionment; resolution; limitations; hearing of complaints; notice; alterations; resolution fixing assessments; notice to landowners; bonds and levies, when.
- Section 24-1218 Right of entry upon lands in connection with work of district; damages.
- Section 24-1219 No-fund warrants for initial expenses; annual tax levies for general fund expenses; increased levies, procedure; tax levies for no-fund warrants and bonds; structure maintenance fund.
- Section 24-1220 Improvement bonds for works of improvement; terms; how payable; limitation on bonded indebtedness.
- Section 24-1221 Act supplemental to other laws.
- Section 24-1222 Chief engineer authorized to transfer territory from one district to another, when; petition.
- Section 24-1223 Same; contents of petition.
- Section 24-1224 Same; presentment of petition to chief engineer; notice and hearing.
- Section 24-1225 Same; findings, decisions and declarations of chief engineer.
- Section 24-1226 Same; liability for outstanding bonded indebtedness.
- Section 24-1227 Extension of territory of district; petition, contents; approval of chief engineer.
- Section 24-1228 Dissolution of district, when; resolution; petition; election; certificate of dissolution.
- Section 24-1229 Dissolution of portion of district; petition, contents; powers and duties of chief engineer; notice and hearing; evidence; findings, filing; certificate of dissolution; recordation; removal of director upon dissolution, effect.
- Section 24-1230 Notification of directors upon dissolution or partial dissolution of district; duties of secretary, treasurer and directors; effective date of dissolution; recordation of certificate of dissolution.
- Section 24-1231 Disposition of funds of totally or partially disorganized district; duties of treasurer.
- Section 24-1232 Minutes and records of totally dissolved district filed with county clerk.
- Section 24-1233 Districts established prior to July 1, 1961; confirmation and validation; procedure.
- Section 24-1234 Intermittent closing of roads within watershed district; county roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of county commissioners; publication and notice.
- Section 24-1235 Same; township roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of township trustees; publication and notice.
- Section 24-1236 Same; county bridge and township road, 24-1234 applies; approval by board of township trustees.
- Section 24-1237 Same; costs of publication and notice; permit to require road markers.
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