2018 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 19 COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS
Article 2 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
19-236 Emergency expenses; no-fund warrants; tax levies; limitations.
19-236. Emergency expenses; no-fund warrants; tax levies; limitations. That in addition to the powers already given by law, the board of county commissioners of each county shall have power at any meeting, in case of great loss or damage to life or property, to assist in burying the dead, caring for the wounded, rendering temporary aid to the distressed, preventing disease and pestilence, and cleaning up debris, and to issue no-fund warrants of the county therefor not exceeding 1% of the taxable property of the county, and to levy a tax at the first tax levying period thereafter to pay such warrants. Such warrants shall be issued, registered, redeemed and bear interest in the manner and in the form prescribed by K.S.A. 79-2940, and amendments thereto, except they shall not bear the notation required by such section and shall be issued without the approval of the state board of tax appeals.
History: L. 1903, ch. 43, § 1 (Special Session); R.S. 1923, 19-236; L. 1963, ch. 157, § 1; L. 1999, ch. 154, § 33; L. 2008, ch. 109, § 39; L. 2014, ch. 141, § 33; July 1.
