24-608. Organization of board of supervisors; district treasurer; county treasurer's duties. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b), the board of supervisors shall meet immediately after their election and select from their membership a chairperson and a treasurer. The board also shall select a secretary, who need not be a member of the board. The district treasurer shall give a bond in an amount approved by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the greater portion of the district is located. The bond shall be conditioned on the faithful and proper performance of duty. The treasurer shall have the same powers and duties stated in K.S.A. 24-415, and amendments thereto. The board may adopt a seal, with a suitable device, and shall keep a record of all its proceedings which shall at all times be open to the inspection of all owners of real estate in the drainage district. At each annual meeting the board shall make a report of what work has been done, and shall publish annually a statement of its receipts and expenditures in a legal newspaper printed, published and of general circulation in the county in which the district was organized.
(b) The board of supervisors may designate the county treasurer of the county in which the drainage district, or the largest portion thereof, is located, as ex officio treasurer of the drainage district, for the purpose of collecting and disbursing taxes and assessments. The treasurers of the counties in which the smaller parts of the district are located shall pay to the ex officio treasurer any and all funds collected by them for the benefit of the drainage district. The ex officio treasurer shall give a receipt for the funds received. A duplicate shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county of which the person receiving same is treasurer.
It shall be the duty of the treasurer, who is ex officio treasurer of the drainage district, to pay any money of the drainage district on hand upon warrants, signed by the chairperson and attested by the secretary of the board of supervisors of the district, when presented for payment.
History: L. 1911, ch. 168, § 8; R.S. 1923, 24-608; L. 1983, ch. 118, § 18; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees
Article 6 - Drainage In One Or More Counties
24-601a Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
24-602 Summons to owners of real estate.
24-605 Elections, supervisors and bonds and no-fund warrant issues; vacancies.
24-606a Annual election of supervisors; notice.
24-608 Organization of board of supervisors; district treasurer; county treasurer's duties.
24-610 Drain commissioner; term; duties; bond; oath.
24-611 Annexation of land to district; procedures; limitations.
24-611a Agreements to allow drainage from land located outside district.
24-612 Rights of way and removal of obstructions in streams; eminent domain proceedings.
24-613 Hearing of objections to report of engineer; notice; filing of report.
24-614 Who may file objections to report; adjournments of hearings.
24-616 Hearings to objections to engineer report; costs; fees.
24-617 Appeal from decision of board; bond; transcript; procedure.
24-618 Tax levies; installments; correction of assessments; certification of levies.
24-619 Supplemental assessments.
24-620 Expenses apportioned to street, highway or railroad; collection.
24-621 Issuance of bonds; levy to pay bonds; temporary loan.
24-622 Resolution for bond issue.
24-623 Lien of assessments; sinking fund.
24-624 Sale of bonds; use of proceeds; deposit of money.
24-625 Powers and duties of board; works affecting highway, railroad or state property.
24-628 Outlet or discharge of more than one district into stream; apportionment of cost.
24-629 Outlet for lateral drains.
24-630 Subdistrict where land separated from drainage; petition.
24-633 Compensation and expenses of officers and employees.
24-635 Overseers; appointment; powers and duties.
24-636 Civil liability for obstructing or injuring property; penalty.
24-637 Construction of act; defects in assessments; modification of assessments.
24-638 Contest of assessments.
24-639 District to be body politic and corporate; corporate name; general powers.
24-640 Construction of act; petition required, when.
24-641 Legalizing drainage districts created by district court or board of county commissioners.
24-641a Same; special election of officers, when.
24-642 Same; boundaries legalized.
24-643 Same; bond issues legalized.
24-644 Same; tax levies and assessments legalized.
24-645 Same; acts done in conformity to law legalized.
24-646 Same; application of act.
24-648 Same; duties of trustees.
24-649 Same; how funds secured by trustees; tax levy.
24-650 Same; notice of disorganization; filing of claims.
24-651 Same; funds for payment of claims.
24-652 Same; care and sale of property.
24-653 Same; final report and discharge of trustees.
24-654 Renewal, extension and restoration of articles of incorporation; petition to court; record.
24-655 Same; validation of prior acts; vesting of property rights and credits; liabilities.
24-656 Drainage districts organized with territory in two or more counties; definitions.
24-658 Same; petition by verified landowners; county clerk to furnish record of ownership, when.
24-658a Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
24-659 Same; contents of petition; form; map.
24-664 Same; district as body politic and corporate; powers; designation of home office.
24-665a Same; annual meeting; notice; elections.