12-694.   Water course improvements; eminent domain; policejurisdiction.The governing body of any city may establish, make and regulate publicwells, cisterns, aqueducts and reservoirs and provide for filling the sameand may establish, alter, change, relocate, straighten, divert andotherwise improve the channels of watercourses, navigable or otherwise,remove and change bridges and remove obstructions, wall watercourses andcover them over, and in connection therewith construct and maintain withinor outside of the city limits such channels, tunnels, aqueducts and ditchesas may be required and necessary to form an outlet and drain said watercarried by such watercourses into a creek, ravine or river, and build anderect all walls, embankments, levees and ripraps to protect the banksthereof, and for all or any of said purposes such cities may acquire, ownand hold by gift, purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminentdomain in accordance with K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive, within orwithout the city limits, within five (5) miles therefrom, or within twenty(20) miles therefrom where it is necessary in order to obtain an adequatewater supply for such cities, all lands required and necessary therefor,and pay all damages for property taken or injured and may enact any and allordinances for said purposes, but no such construction shall be made withinthe corporate limits of any other city until such city shall first consentthereto. In the construction and maintenance of such work and improvementsuch city may receive aid and contributions toward the payment of the costthereof from, and may contract and cooperate with, municipal and othercorporations and individuals of this or any other state. The policejurisdiction of the city shall extend over such lands as acquired beyondthe city limits except where such acquired land is already under the policejurisdiction of some other city.

      History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-701; L. 1927, ch. 139, § 1; L. 1935, ch. 121, § 1;L. 1963, ch. 234, § 36; L. 1975, ch. 118, § 1; July 1.