2017 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 2 AGRICULTURE
Article 19 CONSERVATION DISTRICTS
2-1903 Definitions.

2-1903. Definitions. As used in this act:

(1) "District" or "conservation district" means a governmental subdivision of this state, and a public body corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of this act, for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth.

(2) "Supervisor" means one of the members of the governing body of a district, elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this act.

(3) "Commission" or "state conservation commission" means the conservation program policy board created in K.S.A. 2-1904, and amendments thereto.

(4) "State" means the state of Kansas.

(5) "Agency of this state" includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporation or otherwise, of the government of this state.

(6) "United States" or "agencies of the United States" includes the United States of America, the soil conservation service of the United States department of agriculture and any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.

(7) "Government" or "governmental" includes the government of this state, the government of the United States and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them.

(8) "Division" or "division of conservation" means the agency established in K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 74-5,126, and amendments thereto.

History: L. 1937, ch. 5, § 3; L. 1972, ch. 5, § 2; L. 1994, ch. 45, § 1; L. 2012, ch. 140, § 123; July 1.