80-901. Parks or cemeteries; establishment. Any municipal township in any county in the state is authorized to provide and secure to the inhabitants thereof, either by purchase or by acquisition, from any person or persons, or from any cemetery organization, corporation or association of persons already in existence, a park or parks or a cemetery […]
80-902. Same; bonds; limitation. In order to pay any expenditures for the purposes contemplated by this act, as amended, such municipal township may issue the bonds of such township in the manner provided by law, in an amount not to exceed two percent of the assessed valuation thereof: Provided, That no township in any case […]
80-903. Tax levies for bonds and interest and for expenses and improvements. Any township issuing bonds under this act shall annually levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest thereon, and after five years an amount sufficient to create a sinking fund to pay the principal at maturity; and any township purchasing or acquiring or […]
80-904. Same; petition; election; duties of county commissioners. The purchasing and securing of suitable grounds for the purpose of this act or the acquiring and taking over of parks and cemeteries already in existence, either by becoming absolute owners or as trustees under existing laws, shall not be done until twenty-five percent of the resident […]
80-905. Parks and cemeteries in one or more townships; establishment. Any municipal township, or, two or more such townships combined in any county in this state is authorized to provide and secure to the inhabitants of such township, or townships, whether by purchase or acquisition, from any person or persons, or from any cemetery organization, […]
80-906. Same; petition; election; duties of county commissioners. The purchasing and securing of suitable grounds for the purpose of this act, or the acquiring and taking over of parks and cemeteries already in existence, whether by becoming absolute owners, or as trustee, under existing laws, shall not be done until twenty-five percent of the resident […]
80-907. Same; tax levy for sinking fund; limitation. Any township, or townships, issuing bonds under this act shall annually levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest thereon, and after five years an amount sufficient to create a sinking fund to pay the principal at maturity; and any township, or townships, purchasing or acquiring or […]
80-908. Same; cooperation by cities of second or third classes; petition; ordinance; tax levy. Whenever any cities of the second or third class located within the county shall desire to cooperate with any municipal township, or townships, under the provisions of this act, the governing body of any such cities of the second or third […]
80-909. Same; sections 80-905 to 80-909 supplemental. This act shall be supplemental to and in nowise contradictory of the provisions of chapter 295 [*] of the Laws of Kansas for 1921. History: L. 1923, ch. 241, § 5; March 3; R.S. 1923, 80-909. * “Chapter 295,” see 80-901, 80-903, 80-904.
80-910. Parks or cemeteries; petition under 80-901 to 80-904; order for election. The county commissioners, for such township, upon the presentation of the foregoing petition and such other conditions as may be deemed advisable, to the chairman of the board, shall convene and make an order, which order shall embrace the terms and conditions set […]
80-911. Same; bonds; issuance. If a majority of the qualified electors voting at such election vote for such purchase and use, and issue of bonds, the board of county commissioners, for and in behalf of such township, shall issue such bonds as may be required by such proposition in the name of such township. When […]
80-912. Same; cemetery lots; record and charges. Any citizen of any township owning and maintaining a cemetery under the provisions of this act, upon the payment of one dollar to the trustee of such township, which money shall be credited to the contingent fund, shall have the right and privilege to one lot in such […]
80-913. Same; use of funds; annual report; unlawful acts. The town board of such township shall have full authority and power to use the funds provided by the issue of bonds as hereinbefore conditioned, in purchasing, maintaining and improving the parks and cemeteries owned in such township by virtue of this act: Provided, The trustee […]
80-914. Purchase of unsold school lands for cemetery or burial ground. Any municipal township of this state is hereby authorized and shall be entitled to purchase and acquire for a cemetery or burial ground any quantity of land not exceeding five acres in any one tract or lot of any unsold school lands situated in […]
80-915. Acquisition of cemetery association or corporation property; maintenance. Whenever any cemetery association or corporation maintaining or owning a cemetery shall desire to convey such cemetery to the municipal township in which the cemetery is located for the purpose of making the cemetery a public burying ground, it shall be lawful for the township board […]
80-916. Care of abandoned cemeteries. From and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the township board of any township within the state of Kansas in which there is situated an abandoned cemetery to provide for the care of such cemetery and to provide for the proper and seasonable cutting […]
80-917. Cemetery chapel. Any township in the state of Kansas owning or operating as trustees a cemetery is authorized and empowered to procure, acquire and control a building to be used as a chapel in connection with such cemetery in which to hold burial or funeral services and such other devotional or religious exercises as […]
80-918. Same; petition. The township board shall not acquire, secure nor operate a chapel as provided in K.S.A. 80-917 except upon the application so to do through a petition presented to it signed by at least twenty-five percent of the resident taxpayers of the township. History: L. 1921, ch. 91, § 2; Feb. 27; R.S. […]
80-919. Same; election; site; erection; tax levy, limitation. Upon the receipt of such petition the township board shall call an election at which the question of the acquiring of a site for and the building of a chapel as provided hereinbefore shall be submitted to the electors of the township, at which election the proposition […]
80-923. Board of trustees of joint township parks or cemeteries; tax levies. Where two or more townships in the state of Kansas combine, and purchase or acquire or act as trustee for grounds for a park or parks, or cemetery or cemeteries, the township board of each of such combined townships shall constitute a board […]
