24-617. Appeal from decision of board; bond; transcript; procedure. Any person or corporation who has filed objections and had a hearing as herein provided feeling aggrieved by the decision and judgment of the said board of supervisors, may appeal to the district court within and for the county in which said drainage district was originally established, upon giving a bond conditioned the same as in appeals to the district court in civil actions from justices of the peace in this state, and payable to said drainage corporation, and in addition thereto conditioned that they will pay all damages which may accrue to said drainage district by reason of said appeal, which bond shall be approved by the secretary of said board of supervisors, and filed with said secretary within ten days after the rendition of the decision appealed from. Within ten days after the filing of said bond said secretary shall make and file a transcript of said hearing together with all the papers relating thereto, with the clerk of the district court, to which said matter has been appealed.
Upon the filing of said transcript and bond the said district court shall have jurisdiction of said cause, and the same shall be docketed and filed as in appeals in other civil actions to said court, and said court shall hear and determine all such objections in a summary manner as a case in equity, and shall increase or reduce the amount of benefit on any tract where the same may be required in order to make the apportionment equitable. All objections that may be filed shall be heard and determined by said court as one proceeding and only one transcript of the final order of the board of supervisors fixing the apportionments or benefits shall be required. The clerk of the district court shall forthwith certify the decision of the court to the board of supervisors who shall take such action as may be rendered necessary by such decisions.
History: L. 1911, ch. 168, ยง 17; May 22; R.S. 1923, 24-617.
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.