24-434. Construction and purposes of act; limitation of actions. This act shall be liberally construed, to encourage the improvement of natural watercourses, to protect lands from damage and injury by overflow, and promote the public health, convenience, and welfare; and the collection of general or special taxes or assessments levied under the provisions of this act shall not be defeated by reason of any omission, imperfection or defect in the organization of any drainage district or in any proceeding accruing prior to the issuing of any bond or the confirmation of the report of the assessors of any special assessment, and no suit to set aside any general or special tax or assessment or to enjoin the making or collection of any assessment or installment thereof, and no defense of any kind to the validity of any improvement bond or assessment to pay the same, shall be allowed unless brought within thirty days after the confirmation of the assessors' report.
History: L. 1905, ch. 215, ยง 35; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-434.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees
Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities
24-401 Organization of drainage districts; duties of board of county commissioners.
24-402 Lands within cities may be included in drainage district.
24-403 Petition for organization of drainage district; definitions.
24-403a Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
24-404 Time and notice of hearing.
24-405 Hearing of petition; corporate name; perpetual succession.
24-406 Record of organization; first election; description of lands.
24-407 Powers of drainage districts.
24-408 Powers of districts incorporated under law of 1905.
24-408a Sanitary sewers of district; bonds.
24-409 Board of directors; members' qualifications and terms.
24-410 Who may vote at elections; definitions.
24-412 Elections of directors, when; term of office.
24-412a Directors' names and district description to secretary of state.
24-413 Vacancy in office of director.
24-417 Engineer; plans and specifications.
24-418 Improvements authorized; estimate; construction; bonds; election.
24-419 Board to determine work to be done; surveys; estimates; reports.
24-420 Action of board on engineer's report; special election; issuance of bonds.
24-421 Change of channel of natural watercourse; issuance of bonds; levy of assessments.
24-422 Assessment of cost against landowners; appointment of assessors, qualifications.
24-423 Same; meeting of taxpayers, when; notice; vote.
24-424 Hearing on assessments; notice; equalization; time for bringing actions.
24-425 Election upon bond issue; notice; canvass of returns.
24-426 Manner of letting contracts; bond of contractor; tools and machinery.
24-428 Bond elections; costs included.
24-429 Prevention of overflow of streams.
24-430 Installment assessments or bonds.
24-433 Levy and collection of assessments to pay bonds.
24-434 Construction and purposes of act; limitation of actions.
24-435 Supplemental assessments to correct errors.
24-436 Relevy of assessments; when.
24-437 Order requiring railroad to elevate tracks; mandamus.
24-438 Eminent domain proceedings.
24-448 Contracts with federal agencies.
24-449 Cooperation of districts; aid from persons or corporations; letting of contracts.
24-450 Contract with railroad company.
24-450a Counties of 140,000; contract with railroad company; tax levy.
24-451 Section 24-426 inapplicable to 24-448 through 24-450.
24-452 Sewers through levees; floodgates and pumping apparatus; duty of cities; costs.
24-453 Watercourses on boundary of district; jurisdiction; sale of abandoned channel.
24-454 Lands in abandoned watercourse; sale; appraisement.
24-455 Failure of director to perform duty; penalty.
24-456 Penalty for unlawful acts.
24-457 Liability for damages for injury.
24-458 Incorporation of district where owners of three-fifths of land are nonresidents; petition.
24-459 Directors; election; term; eligible voters.
24-460 Same; application of act of 1905.
24-461 Same; application of act.
24-462 Additional assessments where installment levies and bond proceeds insufficient; limitation.
24-463 Enlargement of district; petition.
24-464 Same; contents of petition.
24-465 Same; notice of hearing.
24-466 Same; hearing on petition.
24-467 Same; eminent domain proceedings.
24-468 Same; drainage outside district; agreement with landowner.
24-469 Same; benefits to adjoining land; incorporation into district; proceedings.
24-470 Harbor lines along navigable streams.
24-471 Appropriation of land at harbor lines.
24-472 How appropriation made; duties of governor.
24-473 Penalty for interfering with possession of such property; removal from property.
24-474 Action to ascertain ownership of and compensation for such land.
24-475 Payment of judgment, cost and award; bonds; tax levy; reversion of land, when; damages.
24-476 When railway company not to be deprived of easement in such land.
24-477 Removal of personal property from land so appropriated; mandamus.
24-478 Sections 24-470 through 24-480 supplemental to act of 1905.
24-479 Grant of easements in strip of land so appropriated; relinquishment of land.
24-481 Application for incorporation of drainage district under article 7; when.
24-482 Notice of hearing on application; publication; continuance.
24-483 Duties of county commissioners; style and powers of drainage district.
24-484 Directors, qualifications; voters, qualifications.
24-485 Laws governing district after incorporation.
24-486 Authority and powers of drainage district; bond issue; with and without election.
24-487 Validity of 24-481 through 24-487a.
24-487a Construction of 24-481 through 24-487.
24-489 Dike or levee improvement in certain districts.
24-490 Same; acquisition of land.
24-491 Same; money or credits from federal government.
24-493 Same; duties of county engineer.
24-495 Expenditure from general fund.
24-496 Same; improvements authorized.
24-499a Same; expenditure of funds from district without budgeting.
24-4,100 Dissolution of certain inoperative districts located wholly within cities; procedure.