68-101. Definitions. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them wherever they appear in chapter 68 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto: (a) “Highway commissioners,” “township board of highway commissioners,” “township commissioners,” “township board,” or “township governing body” means the governing body of the […]
68-102. Laying out, altering or vacating roads. (a) Upon petition of any adjacent landowner, the board of county commissioners may lay out, alter or vacate a road. The board of county commissioners also may layout or alter any road when deemed necessary by the board. (b) The board of county commissioners may vacate any road […]
68-102a. Same; notice. Before any road is laid out, altered or vacated without the presentation of a petition, the county clerk shall give notice of the proposed action by publication once in the official county newspaper and by sending notice by certified mail to each owner of property adjoining the road, at the address where […]
68-103. Petition, contents. All petitions for laying out or altering a road shall specify the place of beginning, the intermediate points, if any, and the place of termination of such road. History: L. 1911, ch. 248, § 3; May 22; R.S. 1923, 68-103.
68-104. Viewers; notice of view; duties of county surveyor. (a) Upon presentation of any petition for a road, or for the alteration or vacation of any road, to the county commissioners, at any regular session of their board, it shall be the duty of such commissioners, if they find the petition to be a legal […]
68-105. Notice by petitioner; affidavits of service; filing. It shall be the duty of at least one of the petitioners to cause six days’ notice to be given in writing to the owner or owners or their agents, if residing in the county, or if such owner be a minor, idiot or insane person, then […]
68-106. Viewing, surveying, laying out, altering or vacating road; assessment of damages; application for damages, when; filing, survey and plat. It shall be the duty of the commissioners or said viewers or a majority of them, and the county surveyor to meet at the time and place specified in the notice aforesaid, or on the […]
68-107. Separate certificates of damages assessed; appeal from award; benefit district assessment in counties between 30,000 and 90,000; notice and hearing; appeal. It shall be the duty of the commissioners or viewers, at the same time that they make their certificate of the view, if favorable, to make also a separate certificate, in writing stating […]
68-109. Road on county or city line; petition; viewers; filing survey and plat. When it shall become necessary to establish a road on a county line, the inhabitants along such line may petition the board of commissioners of their respective counties for a view of said road in the manner hereinbefore provided; and it shall […]
68-110. Compensation of commissioners; viewers, chainmen, flagmen and markers; payment of costs and expenses. All persons required to render services under chapter 68 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, shall receive compensation for each day they shall necessarily be employed, as follows, to wit: On the part of the […]
68-113. State-line roads; establishment; width limitation. The boards of county commissioners of counties along the state line may establish a road in the state of Kansas along such state line in the manner provided by law for the laying out of other public highways: Provided, That the portion of the road established and located on […]
68-114. Proceedings for change in roads; eminent domain. When it is found necessary to lay out, relocate, alter, widen or vacate a road or highway for the purpose of eliminating sharp turns or other dangerous places, or for the proper construction of a highway, or for the extension of a bridge or culvert, the board […]
68-115. Opening and repair of roads by county engineer or township trustee; drains and ditches; penalty for obstruction; compensation for road building material taken; appeal. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), it shall be the duty of each and every county engineer to open or cause to be opened all state and county roads […]
68-115a. Township minimum maintenance roads. The township board of each township may establish by resolution of the board minimum standards for road beds and road drainage. History: L. 1995, ch. 232, § 2; May 4.
68-116. Prescribed width of county roads; hedges; increase of width, when. The width of all county roads shall be determined by the viewers at the time of establishing the same, and shall not be more than one hundred and twenty (120) nor less than sixty (60) feet and in cases where a growing hedge or […]
68-117. Access to public highway, when; petition; width of road and plat; payment of expenses. Whenever the premises of any person shall be so completely surrounded by adjoining lands, the property of others or by such lands and water, as to be without access to any public highway, then such person may petition the board […]
68-117a. Counties having a township of 10,000 or over with no city or town; petition for laying out, viewing or altering roads; bond. In all counties in which there is a township with a population of ten thousand or more outside of the limits of any incorporated city or town, applications for laying out roads, […]
68-117b. Same; benefit district; damages; abandonment of proceedings, when; assessment of benefits. Every such petition for laying out, widening or altering a road, shall contain a description of the boundary lines of the benefit district, within the limits hereinafter prescribed; any such benefit district may be diminished, but not increased in size, by either the […]
68-117c. Same; hearing; publication of notice; copy of proceedings to owners; limitation on time for appeal. The board of county commissioners shall set a day for a hearing in connection with the establishment of the benefit district, and the fixing of damages and benefits, which date of hearing shall be not less than three weeks […]
68-117d. Same; appeal from award; appraisers; report; exceptions to report; notice of hearing; copy of judgment to county clerk. Any person owning land within the benefit district, and feeling himself aggrieved by the orders made by the board of county commissioners, or viewers, including any order of dismissal by reason of total damages exceeding total […]
