Kansas Statutes
Article 6 - Drainage In One Or More Counties
24-650 Same; notice of disorganization; filing of claims.

24-650. Same; notice of disorganization; filing of claims. Within sixty days after adopting the resolution to disorganize and dissolve the district, the board of trustees shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the drainage district, for three consecutive issues if a weekly paper, and for five consecutive issues if a daily paper, a notice to all creditors and claimants of or against the drainage district (naming it) setting forth a copy of the resolution to disorganize and dissolve the drainage district and further notifying all such creditors and claimants, without naming them or specifying the amount or nature of their claim, that each claimant having any claim of any kind or nature existing against the drainage district at the time and previous to the date (specifying it) of the adoption of the resolution to disorganize the district, or accruing upon contracts made previous thereto, shall file a verified, itemized statement of such claim as they may have against the drainage district, setting forth the amount and nature thereof, with the secretary to the board of trustees and shall also file a copy, for record, with the clerk of the district court (naming it) wherein the resolution to disorganize the district was filed, within a time to be specified in such notice but not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days from the date of first publication of such notice. No such claim of any character shall be allowed unless filed within one year after the date of such first newspaper publication, which date shall be specified in such notice.
Within ten days after the date of first publication of such notice, the secretary to the board of trustees shall mail a copy of such notice to the last known address of each claimant who appears as such upon the records of the drainage district. The validity of each claim and the right of each claimant to be paid shall be determined in accordance with the law under which the drainage district was organized and exclusive of and unaided by this act so that the rights of all claimants, and all property owners shall remain unchanged and the limitation, if any, upon the power of the drainage district to incur indebtedness shall be observed. Within this limitation the board of trustees may compromise any claim and agree upon the amount that may be due. If the board of trustees shall deem it advisable, they may file an action in a court of general jurisdiction and make one or more or all of the known claimants parties defendants and procure an interpretation and construction of K.S.A. 24-601 to 24-640, determining the power of such drainage district to incur indebtedness, the limitation thereon, if any, and the rights of claimants and the power to levy and the method of levying taxes or assessments to pay the indebtedness of the district.
History: L. 1929, ch. 175, ยง 4; May 28.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees

Article 6 - Drainage In One Or More Counties

24-601 Formation of drainage district by owners of swamp or overflowed lands; articles of association.

24-601a Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.

24-602 Summons to owners of real estate.

24-603 Objections of landowners heard by district court; finding of fact; exclusion of land not benefited.

24-604 Record of proceedings.

24-605 Elections, supervisors and bonds and no-fund warrant issues; vacancies.

24-606a Annual election of supervisors; notice.

24-607 Oath of supervisors.

24-608 Organization of board of supervisors; district treasurer; county treasurer's duties.

24-609 Topographical survey; classification and basis for assessment of benefits; maps and profile; engineer.

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.

24-615 Powers and duties of board upon hearing objections to report; no appeal, when; board may modify decision.

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.

24-626 Letting of contracts for improvements; bond of contractor; work under direction of drain commissioner.

24-627 Scope of act.

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.

24-632 Warrants.

24-633 Compensation and expenses of officers and employees.

24-634 Levy upon lands for repair of improvements; assessment of costs where repair made necessary by negligence of landowner.

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.

24-640a Perpetual succession.

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.

24-647 Disorganization of drainage district; petition; nature of hearing; resolution; board of trustees.

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.

24-657 Same; authorization.

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.

24-660 Same; circulation of counterpart of petition; city territory included, when; copies of petitions filed with county clerk and secretary of state; findings and endorsement by secretary of state; notice to steering committee.

24-661 Same; certification to chief engineer; investigation, report and approval or disapproval; approval required, when; transmittal of approval to secretary of state and to chairman of steering committee.

24-662 Same; meeting of steering committee, notice; committee constitutes initial board of directors; election of officers; election on organization of district; certification of results to secretary of state; certificate of incorporation, issuance a...

24-663 Same; payment of costs and expenses when proposed district not approved; tax levies; disposition of funds.

24-664 Same; district as body politic and corporate; powers; designation of home office.

24-665 Same; no-fund warrants to pay initial organization and administrative expenses; limitation; tax levy to pay; annual ascertainment and certification of valuation in joint district.

24-665a Same; annual meeting; notice; elections.

24-666 Same; act supplemental to existing laws.

24-667 Extension of territory of joint district; petition; approval of secretary of state and chief engineer.

24-668 Dissolution of portion of joint district; petition, contents; hearing; findings; report; certificate of dissolution; powers and duties of chief engineer.