68-117a. Counties having a township of 10,000 or over with no city or town; petition for laying out, viewing or altering roads; bond. In all counties in which there is a township with a population of ten thousand or more outside of the limits of any incorporated city or town, applications for laying out roads, or for viewing, reviewing, widening or altering any road, shall be by petition to the board of county commissioners signed by the owners of not less than fifty percent of the land abutting that part of the road sought to be laid out, viewed, reviewed, widened or altered; and one or more of the signers of any petition presented as aforesaid shall enter into a bond with sufficient sureties payable to the state of Kansas for the use of the county, to be approved by the board of county commissioners, conditioned that the persons signing such bonds shall pay into the treasury of the county the amount of all costs and expenses accruing on said location, view, review, widening or alteration in case the proceedings had in pursuance of said petition shall not be finally confirmed and established; and on neglect or refusal of the persons so bound, after a liability shall have accrued, the county clerk of the county shall collect or cause to be collected such costs and expenses, and pay the same into the county treasury.
History: L. 1947, ch. 352, ยง 1; Apr. 15.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 68 - Roads And Bridges
Article 1 - General Provisions
68-102 Laying out, altering or vacating roads.
68-104 Viewers; notice of view; duties of county surveyor.
68-105 Notice by petitioner; affidavits of service; filing.
68-109 Road on county or city line; petition; viewers; filing survey and plat.
68-113 State-line roads; establishment; width limitation.
68-114 Proceedings for change in roads; eminent domain.
68-115a Township minimum maintenance roads.
68-116 Prescribed width of county roads; hedges; increase of width, when.
68-117 Access to public highway, when; petition; width of road and plat; payment of expenses.
68-117b Same; benefit district; damages; abandonment of proceedings, when; assessment of benefits.
68-118 Informational signs at intersections on township roads.
68-124 Private roads as public highways, maintenance.
68-126 Fences across public highways; gates; county commissioners' powers and duties.
68-131 Township sidewalks and crossings; petition; special assessments.
68-132 Same; contracts; specifications and bids; publication notice; bond of contractor; inspector.
68-133 Same; time for action to set aside or enjoin.
68-134 Same; penalty for removal or injury.
68-141a Renting or hiring of machinery and equipment prohibited; exceptions.
68-141b Supervision by experienced operator; times for renting; charges.
68-141f Setting aside portions of road and bridge or street funds; definitions.
68-141g Same; resolution of governing body; procedure; retransfer, when.
68-151 Vacating road in Labette county.
68-151h Same; how money expended.
68-151i Same; bond limitations inapplicable.
68-151j Same; federal or state aid.
68-151m Issuance of no-fund warrants for certain purposes by certain counties; definition.
68-151n Same; purposes; amount; conditions; tax levies to pay.
68-161 Authority of county commissioners.
68-164 Same; approval of certain plans and specifications by secretary of transportation.
68-165 Same; secretary of transportation not liable.
68-169 Joint agreements between secretary of transportation and local units and between local units.
68-170 Construction and improvement of roads and bridges on state owned lands; definitions.
68-171 Same; agreements between secretary of transportation and state agencies.
68-172 Same; agencies authorized to use funds.
68-173 Same; disposition of moneys.
68-183 Same; limitations on meaning of term "by purchase."
68-184 Sprinkling irrigation water on highways declared a public nuisance; injunction.