Kansas Statutes
Article 7 - Improvement Of Roads In Benefit Districts
68-729 Improvement of roads in platted areas outside cities; petition; resolution; publication.

68-729. Improvement of roads in platted areas outside cities; petition; resolution; publication. If, in any county having a population of more than 20,000, a petition is filed in accordance with K.S.A. 68-728 for an improvement for which a special tax is to be levied and the board deems it necessary to make the improvement, the board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, declare such improvement necessary to be done. Such resolution shall be published once in the official paper of the county and shall be sent by certified mail to the owners of the property liable for taxation for the improvement, at the address where the owner's tax statement is sent. If the owners of more than 1/2 the property liable for taxation, for the improvement do not, within 20 days from such last publication, file with the county clerk their protest against such improvement, the board of county commissioners shall have power to cause such roads and highways to be constructed or built, to contract therefor and to levy taxes as provided by law. The work may be done before, during or after the collection of the special assessment, as deemed proper by the board of county commissioners.
As used in this section, "improvement" means curbing, guttering, paving, macadamizing, grading, recurbing, reguttering, repaving, remacadamizing or regrading a public road outside any incorporated city.
History: L. 1927, ch. 258, § 2; L. 1981, ch. 173, § 74; July 1.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 68 - Roads And Bridges

Article 7 - Improvement Of Roads In Benefit Districts

68-701 Petition of resident landowners; publication of order; time for actions to restrain; supplemental petitions; state lands.

68-701a Filling certain gaps in counties of 130,000 or over; resolution by county commissioners; publication; time for protests.

68-701b Same; time for action to restrain.

68-702 Contents of petition under 68-701.

68-702a Petition void if improvement not made within three years.

68-703 Survey, map, plans and specifications; estimates of costs; changes in road; eminent domain, procedure; appeal from award.

68-704 Construction of improvements; letting of contracts; bids, surety; publication notice; bond of contractor; time for actions to restrain; county warrants.

68-705 Supervision of benefit-district road work.

68-706 Apportionment of costs; certain counties; special assessments; city benefits; bonds; tax levies.

68-707 Apportionment when costs unusually large.

68-708 Special aid fund for benefit-district roads.

68-709 Bond issues; tax levy; use of general and road funds; additional county levy; when road not constructed.

68-710 Application of act to pending proceedings.

68-711 Maintenance and repair.

68-712 Application to similar projects previously authorized.

68-714 Inapplicable to roads costing less than $500 per mile.

68-714a Reconstruction or reimprovement of roads permanently improved under 68-701 to 68-714.

68-715 Abandoned road projects; refund of taxes by county commissioners; procedure.

68-716 Roads situated in more than one county or on county lines; procedure; apportionment of costs.

68-717 Same; application to similar projects previously authorized.

68-719 Application to similar projects previously authorized.

68-728 Improvements of public roads in areas platted outside of cities; petition; authority of county commissioners; apportionment of costs; special assessments; bonds.

68-729 Improvement of roads in platted areas outside cities; petition; resolution; publication.

68-730 Same; eminent domain.

68-731 Townships in counties between 25,000 and 200,000; improvement of certain platted land; costs; apportionment; special assessments; bonds.

68-732 Same; resolution, publication; time for protests.

68-733 Same; eminent domain.

68-735 Certain townships in counties between 25,000 and 200,000; improvement of certain platted land; apportionment of costs; special assessments; bonds.

68-736 Same; resolution, publication; time for protests.

68-737 Same; eminent domain.