24-499. Dissolution of districts having no bonded indebtedness; petition, notice and hearing; resolution; funds, disposition; county commissioners' powers as to dormant districts. Whenever two-fifths (2/5) of the taxpayers residing within the boundaries of any drainage district organized under K.S.A. 24-401 to 24-457, and acts supplemental thereto, which district has no outstanding bonded indebtedness, shall file their written petition with the board of directors of such drainage district requesting the said board of directors of the drainage district to disorganize and dissolve said drainage district, the said board of directors, upon finding such petition sufficient, shall within thirty (30) days designate a time and place for a public meeting of such board of directors to be held within sixty (60) days thereafter to consider such petition and shall give notice thereof to the owners of land within the drainage district by publication of a notice for two (2) weeks in the official county newspaper, the first publication to be not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the date set for said hearing. Such board of directors shall hold said meeting and all owners of real estate situated within the drainage district and all other parties may attend and shall be heard by said board of directors as to any reasons why such drainage district should or should not be disorganized or dissolved.
After such hearing the board of directors shall have power to adopt a resolution providing that such drainage district (naming it) shall or shall not be disorganized and dissolved and shall file certified copies of such resolution with the secretary of state and the county clerk of the county wherein the drainage district is located. Upon adoption of a resolution to disorganize and dissolve such a drainage district it shall thereupon cease to exist and function except as to distribution of funds on hand, if any. If there be funds, then on hand, not in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), the same shall be apportioned on basis of acreage and transferred to the general funds of the townships wherein said drainage district existed, or if in a sum of excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), the same shall be on basis of the assessed valuation of tangible property, real and personal, assessed in such drainage district in each township in which all or a portion of said drainage district is located, and for year in which the last general revenue levy for said district was levied and extended; and such residue funds of the drainage district shall be transferred and paid over to the township board of highway commissioners, or to the board of county commissioners if in a county where the county road unit system has been adopted. Such funds shall be received by such township board of highway commissioners, or by the county commissioners, as the case may be, and shall (1) be placed in a special fund and used by said commissioners for the purchase of rock or gravel, and for the distribution of rock or gravel to be applied by them, upon public highways within said drainage district boundaries and within said township and county where said drainage district, or a part thereof, is located, or (2) if authorized by the drainage district board, such funds may be placed in the general fund of the township or the county, as the case may be. Where any such drainage district has become dormant and otherwise failed to elect officers and ceased to function as a drainage district, the board of county commissioners of the county wherein the drainage district, or greater area thereof, is located, shall have the same authority herein above conferred upon the board of directors of any such drainage district and shall act herein as if they were in fact the board of directors of the drainage district.
History: L. 1949, ch. 249, § 1; L. 1953, ch. 193, § 1; L. 1965, ch. 240, § 1; April 19.
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.