68-151g. Counties with assessed valuation under $50,000,000; bonds for constructing or improving county roads and bridges; election; tax levy. The board of county commissioners of any county having a total assessed tangible valuation of less than fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) is hereby authorized and empowered, upon compliance with all the provisions of this act, to issue general obligation bonds of such county in a total amount not exceeding an amount equal to two percent (2%) of the total assessed tangible valuation of such county for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of constructing, reconstructing, repairing, altering and improving county roads and bridges including engineering costs in connection therewith.
No bonds shall be issued under the provisions of this act unless and until the question of the issuance of the same, including the total amount thereof, shall have been submitted to the qualified electors of such county at a regular election or at a special election called for that purpose and at least a majority of the legal votes cast at such election shall have been cast in favor of the issuance thereof.
All bonds issued under the provision of this act, shall be serial bonds, payable in approximately equal annual installments over a period of not to exceed thirty (30) years, and shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate of interest prescribed by K.S.A. 10-1009 and the board of county commissioners shall make an annual tax levy on all the taxable tangible property in such county to pay the principal and interest on said bonds as the same becomes due and payable. Such election shall be called, held and conducted and the bonds issued, sold, delivered and retired in accordance with the provisions of the general bond law except as herein otherwise expressly provided.
History: L. 1945, ch. 276, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 64, § 78; L. 1973, ch. 263, § 1; L. 1978, ch. 99, § 34; Apr. 25.
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.