Kansas Statutes
Article 7 - Districts
42-713 Bond resolution; election; publication notice.

42-713. Bond resolution; election; publication notice. (a) The board of directors of any irrigation district, created under the provisions hereof, which has previously complied with the conditions precedent thereto may adopt a resolution stating: (1) The amount of bonds proposed to be issued; (2) the rate or rates they shall bear; (3) the years of maturity; (4) the purpose for which they are proposed to be issued; (5) the total amount of existing bonded indebtedness, if any; and (6) a statement directing submission of said resolution to approval of electors in said district and the date and polling places for said election. Such bond elections shall be conducted and the returns thereof made and canvassed in same manner as for regular election of members of the board of directors as provided in subsection (c) and (d) of section 42-706 except as otherwise provided in this act.
(b) Upon adoption of such resolution by the board of directors providing for the issuance of bonds, the secretary of said board shall cause notice of said election to be given by posting notice thereof in at least three (3) conspicuous places in the district and by publishing said notice three times in a weekly newspaper published in the county where the registered office of said district is located. If no newspaper is published therein, publication in any newspaper of general circulation in the district shall be deemed sufficient. The date of the posting and the publication in the first issue of newspapers containing such notice shall be not less than twenty-one (21) days before the date of such election. Said notice shall contain a full copy of the resolution, and the question to be submitted at the election shall be whether said resolution shall be approved. The ballot for such election shall be written or printed and shall state the question in substantially the following form:
Shall the resolution of __________ Irrigation District No. ______ providing for the issuance of its bonds in an amount not to exceed $______ for the purpose of __________, be approved?
(With all blanks filled in and completed.)
Yes __________ ☐
No  __________ ☐
History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 13; L. 1961, ch. 242, § 3; April 6.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 42 - Irrigation

Article 7 - Districts

42-701 Irrigation districts; petition and application for organization of district; contents of application; application to be accompanied by map and supplementary information.

42-702 Powers and duties of chief engineer; expenses; bond or deposit for costs.

42-703 Proposed district; notice of hearing; protest against application; withdrawal of name from petition; review of action on application.

42-704 Permit by chief engineer; articles of incorporation; filing fee; nature of corporation.

42-705 Perpetual existence; powers; eminent domain; bonds; tax levies.

42-706 Board of directors; qualifications, election and terms of office; conduct of elections, election by mail ballot, when, procedure; oath of office and official bond; conduct of elections in districts of less than 35,000 acres at annual meeting.

42-707 Officers of board; rules and bylaws; central office; seal; contracts; records; open to inspection; duties of county treasurer and treasurer of district.

42-708 Meetings of directors; notice; quorum; assessor of district; employees; compensation; official bonds.

42-709 Provision for preliminary expenses.

42-710 General plan of operation; approval by chief engineer; surveys, maps and estimates.

42-711 Powers of directors.

42-712 Bonds of indebtedness.

42-713 Bond resolution; election; publication notice.

42-714 Issuance, sale and delivery of bonds.

42-715 Annual assessments; duties of assessor; map.

42-716 Water rentals or charges.

42-717 Delivery of assessment roll; equalization of assessments.

42-718 Certification of levies to county clerk.

42-719 Compensation of directors.

42-720 Bids for construction work; publication notice; contractor's bond.

42-721 Payment for property and improvements; additional bonds, election; agreement with federal agencies; water rentals or charges; approval of contract by court before assessments extended; service of process.

42-722 Dissolution of district; petition to chief engineer.

42-722a Cedar Bluff irrigation district No. 6; dissolution; procedure.

42-724 Invalidity of part.

42-725 Changing of boundaries; petition; approval of chief engineer; withdrawal of name from petition, when.

42-726 Same; notice by publication; objections in writing.

42-727 Same; hearing on petition.

42-728 Same; payments by petitioners may be required.

42-729 Same; order on petition.

42-730 Same; amendment to articles of incorporation; recordation; effect.