Kansas Statutes
Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries
80-933 Lease of lake or park; conditions; publication; protest petition.

80-933. Lease of lake or park; conditions; publication; protest petition. Whenever the title to any real property within the area of which there may be included a lake or park may be vested in a township, the township board is hereby authorized to lease such lake or park or any portion thereof for not less than two (2) years nor more than thirty-three (33) years to any 4-H club or livestock association, to any county fair association, to any nonprofit corporation, or to any other charitable or farm organization: Provided, That every such lease shall provide that the lessee shall at its own expense, construct and install all of the facilities and improvements to be occupied and used by it under such lease, upon such terms, conditions and control as the township board may require and subject to the condition that all such facilities and improvements so constructed by the lessee shall become and be the property of the township upon the expiration or cancellation of the term of such lease or upon abandonment or forfeiture thereof by the lessee prior to its expiration.
Such lease shall be effective and binding upon the township, however, only after twenty (20) days following the final publication of such lease including all the terms thereof in some newspaper of general circulation in the township for three (3) consecutive weeks: Provided, That if within such twenty (20) days following the final publication of the lease there be filed with the township clerk a petition signed by twenty-five percent (25%) of the electors of such township as determined by the total vote for secretary of state in such township at the last preceding general election protesting the execution of such lease, then such lease shall be void and of no effect.
History: L. 1949, ch. 504, § 1; L. 1961, ch. 464, § 1; April 6.

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Kansas Statutes

Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers

Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries

80-901 Parks or cemeteries; establishment.

80-902 Same; bonds; limitation.

80-903 Tax levies for bonds and interest and for expenses and improvements.

80-904 Same; petition; election; duties of county commissioners.

80-905 Parks and cemeteries in one or more townships; establishment.

80-906 Same; petition; election; duties of county commissioners.

80-907 Same; tax levy for sinking fund; limitation.

80-908 Same; cooperation by cities of second or third classes; petition; ordinance; tax levy.

80-909 Same; sections 80-905 to 80-909 supplemental.

80-910 Parks or cemeteries; petition under 80-901 to 80-904; order for election.

80-911 Same; bonds; issuance.

80-912 Same; cemetery lots; record and charges.

80-913 Same; use of funds; annual report; unlawful acts.

80-914 Purchase of unsold school lands for cemetery or burial ground.

80-915 Acquisition of cemetery association or corporation property; maintenance.

80-916 Care of abandoned cemeteries.

80-917 Cemetery chapel.

80-918 Same; petition.

80-919 Same; election; site; erection; tax levy, limitation.

80-923 Board of trustees of joint township parks or cemeteries; tax levies.

80-932 Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries.

80-933 Lease of lake or park; conditions; publication; protest petition.

80-934 Cemetery abandoned by private association; title vested in township.

80-935 Same; petition to district court; order transferring title.

80-936 Same; care and maintenance by township.

80-937 Township lakes in certain townships; issuance of bonds for restoration; election.

80-938 Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries; election upon petition.

80-939 Recreational facilities; election; tax levies.

80-940 Disorganization of cemetery districts in certain townships; property transferred to township.

80-941 Conveyance of cemetery property to Attica township in Sedgwick county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund.

80-942 Conveyance of cemetery property to Tecumseh township in Shawnee county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund.

80-943 Conveyance of cemetery property to Topeka township in Shawnee county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund.