19-27a01. Sewer districts in any county; definitions. Whenever used in this act, the following words shall have the following respective meanings unless different meanings clearly appear from the context:
(a) "Governing body" or "board" means the board of county commissioners of the county in which the sewer district is located;
(b) "sewer district" means any wastewater, main, lateral, joint or submain storm or sanitary sewer district;
(c) "improvement" means any trunk lines, outfall or intercepting sewers, manholes, pumps, pumping stations, lift stations, disposal plants and any appurtenances and apparatus necessary for the collection, storage, treatment and disposal of storm or sanitary sewage and wastewater;
(d) "improve" means constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending any improvement;
(e) "sewage system" means any property owned by the sewer district or any property in which the sewer district has a property interest and any trunk lines, outfall or intercepting sewers, manholes, pumps, pumping stations, lift stations, disposal plants and any appurtenances and apparatus necessary for the collection, storage, treatment and disposal of storm or sanitary sewage and wastewater.
(f) "federal law" and "federal pollution control laws" means the clean water act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., and amendments thereto, also known as the federal water pollution control act, and all administrative regulations adopted pursuant thereto;
(g) "industrial user" means any user of the sewage system identified as an "industrial user" under the criteria established by the United States environmental protection agency in 40 C.F.R. § 35.905, and amendments thereto;
(h) "person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization or other entity and departments of government of the state or of the United States and political subdivisions thereof;
(i) "user" means the owner of the land or the person in control of the premises that discharges or contributes any wastes, storm or wastewater to the sewage system.
History: L. 1983, ch. 99, § 2; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 19 - Counties And County Officers
19-27a01 Sewer districts in any county; definitions.
19-27a02 Board of county commissioners serves as governing body of district; powers and duties.
19-27a03 Creation of district by petition; contents; unsanitary conditions.
19-27a03a Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
19-27a05 Notice; hearing; district extending into city limits.
19-27a09 Maintenance fund; tax levy; user charges.
19-27a10 Sewage received from other districts; apportionment of cost; assessment among districts.
19-27a11 Costs of combined or enlarged districts; tax levy; installments; bonds.
19-27a13 Joint sewer districts; creation; procedure; inclusion of certain districts; petition.
19-27a14 Enlargement of boundaries upon petition; additional levies.
19-27a15 Annexation of district by a city; district not dissolved.
19-27a16 Alteration of district's boundaries; district served by city-owned sewage system; hearing.
19-27a18 Federal aid for costs; bonds.
19-27a19 Contracts; public bidding required, when.
19-27a20 Unexpended bond proceeds; uses.
19-27a21 Deficits in bond and interest fund; levy authorized.
19-27a22 Revenue bonds for sewer projects in urban areas.
19-27a23 Abnormal delinquency in payment of special assessments; levy authorized.
19-27a25 Additional user charge to pay cost for use of other municipality's treatment plant.
19-27a26 Districts in Sedgwick county; delegation of powers to controller.
19-27a27 Existing districts to operate under 19-27a01 et seq.; exception.