24-1208. Payment of costs and expenses when petition or resolution is disapproved by engineer or defeated by voters; tax levy. If the organization of the proposed district is defeated at the special election or if the petition or resolution is disapproved by the chief engineer, the board of directors or steering committee named in the petition or resolution shall continue to function in a limited capacity for the purposes hereinafter set forth in this action. Such board or steering committee shall determine the amount of money necessary to pay all of the costs and expenses incurred in the preparation and filing of the petition or resolution and in the conduct of the special election and shall certify a statement of such amount to the county clerk of each county in which the proposed district was to be located. Such county clerks shall thereupon ascertain the total assessed valuation of all taxable tangible property in their respective counties within the proposed district and certify such valuation to the county clerk of the county in which the acting chairperson of the board or steering committee of the proposed district resides.
Such county clerk shall determine the levy necessary to be spread against the taxable tangible property in the entire proposed district in order to raise funds sufficient to pay the amount set forth in the statement and shall certify such levy to the county clerk of the other counties in which a portion of the proposed district is located. Each of the county clerks shall then cause such levy to be extended against the taxable tangible property lying within the boundaries of the proposed district and within the clerk's county. The county treasurers of the respective counties involved shall remit the funds raised by such levy in their counties to the county treasurer of the county in which the acting chairperson of the board or steering committee resides. Such treasurer shall hold such funds and shall honor warrants drawn upon such funds by the acting chairperson of the board or steering committee and countersigned by the acting secretary of the board or steering committee in payment of the costs and expenses incurred in the proposed organization of the district and shown on the aforementioned statement of expenses.
History: L. 1953, ch. 477, § 8; L. 1959, ch. 172, § 7; L. 1995, ch. 210, § 8; May 4.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees
Article 12 - Watershed Districts
24-1201a Declaration of public necessity for creation of districts; power; benefits.
24-1203 Establishment of district by petition.
24-1203a Establishment of district initiated by board of county commissioners.
24-1204 Contents of petition; form.
24-1209 Corporate powers and duties.
24-1210 Directors; number; terms; expenses.
24-1212 Open meetings of directors; notice; quorum.
24-1214a Districts adopting general plan prior to April 1, 1961; method of financing; procedure.
24-1218 Right of entry upon lands in connection with work of district; damages.
24-1221 Act supplemental to other laws.
24-1223 Same; contents of petition.
24-1224 Same; presentment of petition to chief engineer; notice and hearing.
24-1225 Same; findings, decisions and declarations of chief engineer.
24-1226 Same; liability for outstanding bonded indebtedness.
24-1227 Extension of territory of district; petition, contents; approval of chief engineer.
24-1228 Dissolution of district, when; resolution; petition; election; certificate of dissolution.
24-1231 Disposition of funds of totally or partially disorganized district; duties of treasurer.
24-1232 Minutes and records of totally dissolved district filed with county clerk.
24-1233 Districts established prior to July 1, 1961; confirmation and validation; procedure.
24-1237 Same; costs of publication and notice; permit to require road markers.
24-1238 Watershed district responsibilities transferred to city of Atchison.