18-201. County bounded by watercourse. Whenever a county is bounded by a watercourse, it shall be construed to be the middle of the main channel thereof; and range, township and sectional lines shall be construed as conforming to the established United States survey. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 24, § 82; October 31; R.S. 1923, 18-201.
18-202. Change in county boundaries; initiation of process; hearings; election. (a) The boards of county commissioners of any two or more counties may adopt a resolution changing the boundaries of such counties. Such resolution shall describe the change desired. Such resolution shall not be effective until the question has been submitted to and approved by […]
18-203. Duty of commissioners when petition presented. That the petition of the voters of each of the counties interested in such change shall be presented to their respective boards of county commissioners at the same regular session; and it shall be the duty of said board of county commissioners, upon being so petitioned, to order […]
18-204. Notice of election. The boards of county commissioners of the respective counties, at the time they make the order for such election, shall make an order requiring the county clerk to give at least four weeks’ notice of such election, by causing a notice thereof to be published in some newspaper published in their […]
18-205. How election conducted; ballots. That at said election separate ballots shall be cast on the question of changing the boundary lines of said counties, which ballots shall have written or printed thereon the words “For changing county boundaries,” or “Against changing county boundaries”; for which ballots a separate box shall be kept; and a […]
18-206. Record of election. Should a majority of all the votes cast in the county to which the territory belonged be in favor of the proposed change, the clerk of the board of commissioners of said county shall notify the clerk of the board of commissioners of the county or counties interested therein, and should […]
18-207. Records generally. The county to which the territory shall be attached shall cause to be transcribed from the records of the county to which said territory formerly belonged, all records pertaining to the real estate so attached, all taxes due and unpaid in said territory against the property or parties; also a transcript of […]
18-208. When change takes place; officers; townships. On the first Monday of January next succeeding the said election, if the same shall have been determined in favor of the change, the change shall be deemed to have taken place, and all the officers, whether township or district, residing in the territory so detached, shall be […]
18-209. Certified copies of bonds of officers. If the territory included in the change constitutes one or more civil townships, the bonds of all the officers therein that are required to be filed or approved by any county officer shall be transmitted by a copy duly certified by the officer having charge thereof to the […]
18-210. Liability for debts. The detached territory shall not, by reason of such change, be released from the payment of its just and equitable proportions of any indebtedness incurred by the county to which it formerly belonged prior to and existing at the time of such change or detachment, nor shall such territory so detached […]
18-211. Tax levy to pay debts; exemption from debts of other county. In order to fully carry out the provisions of K.S.A. 18-210, it is hereby made the duty of the board of county commissioners of the county to which said territory formerly belonged, when they shall have levied a tax upon the property of […]
18-212. Collection of unpaid taxes in detached territory; use of proceeds. The taxes levied and unpaid in said detached territory, delinquent or otherwise, at the time of such change, shall be transcribed from the books in the hands of the treasurer of the county to which said territory formerly belonged, in the manner in which […]
