12-2701. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) The term “municipality” means any city of the first, second or third class owning and operating a water distribution system or any township or improvement district owning and operating a water distribution system, and which city, township or improvement district is located in a county having a […]
12-2702. Contracts for common supply of water. Two or more municipalities, or one or more municipalities and one or more corporations, are hereby empowered to enter into a contract, contracts or a series of contracts, from time to time, to provide for a common supply of water, including joint acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of […]
12-2703. Acquisition, development and distribution of common water supply. A common supply of water may be acquired and developed (including, but not by way of limitation, the acquisition or construction of all necessary sites, rights of way, easements, other interests in real property, and facilities necessary for the acquisition or distribution of water in bulk) […]
12-2704. Contracts for management and operation; reports. The joint waterworks system may be managed and operated by a joint operating agency or by one of the contracting municipalities or corporations as the contracting municipalities and corporations shall provide. Any such agreement made shall provide for periodic reports of operations and finances to the participating municipalities […]
12-2705. Costs, how financed; extent of right to acquire or condemn property. The costs of providing a common supply of water may be paid from any moneys on hand or available for such purpose or may be financed by the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds or revenue bonds by each of the contracting […]
12-2706. Sale of water; rates; use of reimbursements; assessments; tax levies. Water from the common water supply shall be sold to the several contracting municipalities and corporations. The water shall be sold in bulk. Rates shall be fixed in such amounts that revenue therefrom shall be at least sufficient to pay all estimated annual costs […]
12-2707. Municipal water supply system; resolution; plans, specifications and estimate; approval by secretary of health and environment; cost limited. If the governing body of a municipality determines it advisable and necessary to provide a water supply system or to improve the municipality’s water supply system by contracting with other municipalities and corporations as provided in […]
12-2708. Same; ordinance or resolution; election, when. (a) Before any improvement is made as provided in this act, the governing body of each participating city shall pass an ordinance and the governing body of each participating township shall adopt a resolution authorizing the making of the improvement and, if bonds are to be issued, directing […]
12-2709. Common water supply; general obligation and revenue bonds, conditions and restrictions. (a) All general obligation bonds issued pursuant to this act shall be issued, registered, sold, delivered and retired in accordance with the provisions of the general bond law except as in this act otherwise provided. Revenue bonds issued under this act are hereby […]
12-2710. Water supply in certain cities and townships; eminent domain. The construction, acquisition, operation and maintenance of a common supply of water and a waterworks system, under the provisions of this act is hereby declared to be for a public use, and any municipality which has entered into a contract to provide for a common […]
12-2711. Grants of rights-of-way by certain state and local agencies. The secretary of transportation, the board of county commissioners of any county, the governing body of any city, and the governing body of any township, may grant an easement in, respectively, any state highway, county road, city street, or township road right-of-way to municipalities or […]
12-2712. Validation of certain contracts and bond issues; bonds exempted from debt limitations. If any municipality has, prior to the effective date of this act, with or without authority of law, entered into a contract or contracts to provide for a common supply of water, water distribution system or waterworks system and such contract or […]
12-2713. Jurisdiction of certain state agencies saved. Nothing contained in this act shall be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of the secretary of health and environment or of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture over water supply matters. History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 13; L. […]
12-2714. Municipalities and corporations not deemed common carriers and not subject to utility regulation. Any municipality or corporation entering into an agreement under the authority of this act or validated by this act shall not be deemed to be a common carrier with respect to the water transportation facilities established thereunder and shall not be […]
12-2715. Authority and powers conferred by act; act supplemental; invalidity of part. This act constitutes full and complete authority for the purposes set out therein, and no procedure or proceedings other than those required by this act shall be necessary for the performance of the provisions hereof. The powers conferred by this act shall be […]
12-2716. Cities owning waterworks may contract for water supply. All cities of the state owning their own waterworks are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the United States of America (or an agency or instrumentality thereof) for the furnishing to such contracting city a municipal water supply from storage and distribution facilities constructed and […]
12-2717. Same; reimbursement agreement. Such contracting city may thereby obligate itself to reimburse the United States of America such portion of the cost of such storage and distribution facilities including interest thereon, as may be determined by such city and the United States of America to be allocable to the municipal water supply furnished. Such […]
12-2718. Cities under 200,000; agreements with federal or state agencies for municipal water supply and recreational areas. Any city having a population of less than two hundred thousand (200,000) is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the United States of America or an agency or instrumentality thereof, or with the state of Kansas or […]
12-2719. Same; reimbursement by city, limitations; tax levies; bonds. The governing body of such contracting city, pursuant to authorizing ordinances as hereinafter provided, is hereby authorized to obligate itself to reimburse the United States of America or any instrumentality or political subdivision of the state government, such portion of the cost of such storage and […]
12-2720. Same; adoption of ordinance; contents; publication; protest petition; election; effective, when. Before any such contract or contracts shall be made by the governing body of such contracting city, or bonds issued, taxes levied or improvements made, as provided in this act, the governing body of such contracting city shall enact an ordinance authorizing the […]
