73-402. Same; petition and election; tax levy, use of proceeds. Whenever twenty-five percent (25%) of the electors of any county or city as shown by the vote for secretary of state at the last preceding election, shall present to the board of county commissioners, or the governing body of any city, a petition setting forth: (1) The character of a memorial desired to be erected; and (2) the approximate cost thereof, such county commissioners, or governing body of such city shall call a special election in the manner now provided for by law for a general election, or at a general election or regular city election if said general election or city election is held within six months after said petition is presented and shall submit at such election the proposition in substantially the following form: "Shall the county (or city) of __________ issue its bonds (or levy a tax) in the sum of $______ for the construction (or establishment) of a __________ as a military monument in accordance with the provisions of chapter 256 of the Laws of 1921?"
Before submitting said proposition the board of county commissioners or the governing body of the city, shall determine by an order duly entered whether the indebtedness for said memorial shall be paid by issue of bonds or levy of a tax, and the proposition submitted shall designate whether bonds are to be issued or tax levied. In case a majority of the voters voting shall vote in favor of the erection or establishment of said memorial, then the county commissioners or governing body of the city shall erect such memorial. In addition to the said proposition to be submitted to the electors, if the petition for the memorial so provides, the county commissioners if for a county memorial, or the governing body of the city if for a city memorial, shall submit the following additional proposition to the electors at such election: "Shall such memorial be located at (giving the legal description of the proposed site or sites)?
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And such memorial shall be located on the site receiving the largest number of votes. The board of county commissioners, or governing body of any city, without any election therefor, shall have power to erect and assist in erecting upon any public grounds of said county or city a monument to the memory of parties referred to in K.S.A. 73-401, and for such purposes the board of county commissioners or governing body of such city may appropriate and expend from the general funds of such county or city a sum not in excess of three thousand dollars ($3,000), or said county commissioners or governing body of said city, in lieu of such appropriation, may levy a tax sufficient to raise such amount and to pay a portion of the principal and interest on bonds issued under the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, by cities located in the county, such tax to be in addition to all other levies authorized by law.
History: L. 1921, ch. 256, § 2; L. 1979, ch. 52, § 187; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 73 - Soldiers, Sailors And Patriotic Emblems
Article 4 - Memorials, Monuments And Grave Markers
73-401 Memorials by counties and cities; bonds.
73-402 Same; petition and election; tax levy, use of proceeds.
73-403 Same; conduct of election.
73-404 Same; bond issue; tax levy.
73-405 Same; bonds; terms; limitations.
73-406 Same; tax levy without issuance of bonds, use of proceeds.
73-408 Same; specific authorization of bonds or tax levies.
73-413 Validating bond issue under acts of 1919 and 1920.
73-414 Validating bond issue, consolidated cities first and second class.
73-415 Increased bond issue authorized.
73-416 Validating bond issue, cities second class.
73-417 Monuments by counties and cities for certain veterans.
73-419 Same; lots for monuments.
73-420 Same; county and city may join.
73-422 Soldiers' monument in Sedgwick county.
73-423 Soldiers' monument at Winfield.
73-425 Memorial and monument in counties over 70,000.
73-426 Same; duty of county commissioners.
73-427 County memorials and monuments; tax levy, use of proceeds.
73-427a Same; location and care of monument.
73-429 County memorials and monuments; location and care of monuments.
73-431 County memorials and monuments; placing of markers.
73-432 Same; payment by county.
73-433 Additional bonds when memorial erected under provisions of 73-401 to 73-410.
73-436 Additional bonds for memorial building; tax levy for sinking fund; investment.
73-437 Same; specific authorization.
73-447 Auditorium in certain second-class cities.
73-448 Same; bonds for repair, reconstruction, equipment or demolition; election.
73-450 Certain counties under 3,000; use of tax proceeds for different type building, when.
73-451 Same; resolution; publication; protest petition; election.
73-452 Same; sale or lease of memorial building and land to certain hospital districts.