24-601. Formation of drainage district by owners of swamp or overflowed lands; articles of association. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, a majority in interest of the owners in any contiguous body of swamp or overflowed lands in the state, located in one or more counties in this state, may form a drainage district […]
24-601a. Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts. Any land located within an improvement district created pursuant to K.S.A. 19-2753 et seq., and amendments thereto, or any land located within an industrial district created pursuant to K.S.A. 19-3801 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall not be included within the boundaries of any drainage district […]
24-602. Summons to owners of real estate. Immediately after such articles of association shall have been filed, the clerk of the district court of the county in which the proposed district is located and in case the drainage district be composed of territory situated in the different counties, the clerk of the district court of […]
24-603. Objections of landowners heard by district court; finding of fact; exclusion of land not benefited. (a) All owners of real estate in the district who have not signed the articles of association and who may object to the organization of the drainage district, after having been duly summoned, on or before the day they […]
24-604. Record of proceedings. Within twenty days after the said district has been declared a corporation by the court the clerk thereof shall transmit to the secretary of state a certified copy of the record relating thereto, and the same shall be filed in his office in the same manner as articles of incorporation are […]
24-605. Elections, supervisors and bonds and no-fund warrant issues; vacancies. (a) Within 30 days after the district court has declared that the drainage district is organized, the clerk of the court shall call a meeting of the owners of the real estate located within the district for the purpose of electing a board of five […]
24-606a. Annual election of supervisors; notice. Each year after the election of the first board of supervisors, at a time and place designated by the board of supervisors, the landowners within the drainage district shall meet and elect supervisors of the district. Unless waived in writing, notice of the time, date and place of such […]
24-607. Oath of supervisors. Each supervisor, before entering upon his official duties as such, shall take and subscribe an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will honestly, faithfully and impartially demean himself in office as supervisor of the district in which he was elected and that he will not […]
24-608. Organization of board of supervisors; district treasurer; county treasurer’s duties. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), the board of supervisors shall meet immediately after their election and select from their membership a chairperson and a treasurer. The board also shall select a secretary, who need not be a member of the board. The […]
24-609. Topographical survey; classification and basis for assessment of benefits; maps and profile; engineer. The board of supervisors of any drainage district organized as aforesaid shall from time to time cause topographical surveys to be made of the district by an engineer licensed under the laws of this state. Such engineer shall make a complete […]
24-610. Drain commissioner; term; duties; bond; oath. The board of supervisors of any district organized under this law shall appoint some competent person to award all contracts contemplated in this article to the lowest bidder, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, except as herein otherwise provided, to be known as the drain […]
24-611. Annexation of land to district; procedures; limitations. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, and amendments thereto, and if the board of supervisors determines that land located outside the district benefits by the drainage improvements of the district, the board shall present a petition to the board of county commissioners of the county […]
24-611a. Agreements to allow drainage from land located outside district. (a) The board of supervisors and the owners of land which is located outside a drainage district organized pursuant to K.S.A. 24-601 et seq., and amendments thereto, may enter agreements allowing water from such land to drain into the drainage system of the district. All […]
24-612. Rights of way and removal of obstructions in streams; eminent domain proceedings. When said board of supervisors, by order entered of record, has agreed upon a location or route for said ditch or ditches, and formulated a plan for the other improvements contemplated, then, they, in behalf of said district, shall have the right […]
24-613. Hearing of objections to report of engineer; notice; filing of report. Within ten days after the filing of the report of the engineer as provided by K.S.A. 24-609 with the chairman of the board of supervisors of the drainage district the chairman of said board shall call a meeting at some public place in […]
24-614. Who may file objections to report; adjournments of hearings. The drainage district by its attorney or any owner of land or other property in said district whose land or property may be affected thereby may file objections to said report or to any item of the classification or the assessment of benefits therein set […]
24-615. Powers and duties of board upon hearing objections to report; no appeal, when; board may modify decision. At the time and place fixed in said notice the board of supervisors shall meet for the hearing of the objections. If they find that due notice has not been given as required by this act, they […]
24-616. Hearings to objections to engineer report; costs; fees. The cost of said hearing in case of contest shall be taxed and assessed as follows: First, if the said matter shall be determined by said board against the parties’ contention objecting to said assessment, all costs upon the hearing of his said objections shall be […]
24-617. Appeal from decision of board; bond; transcript; procedure. Any person or corporation who has filed objections and had a hearing as herein provided feeling aggrieved by the decision and judgment of the said board of supervisors, may appeal to the district court within and for the county in which said drainage district was originally […]
24-618. Tax levies; installments; correction of assessments; certification of levies. As soon as the said board of supervisors have adjudicated, fixed and established the classification and benefits as provided by K.S.A. 24-615, they may at once levy a tax on the lands and other property in said district to which benefits have been assessed, equal […]
