12-694. Water course improvements; eminent domain; police jurisdiction.
12-694
12-694. Water course improvements; eminent domain; police
jurisdiction.
The governing body of any city may establish, make and regulate public
wells, cisterns, aqueducts and reservoirs and provide for filling the same
and may establish, alter, change, relocate, straighten, divert and
otherwise improve the channels of watercourses, navigable or otherwise,
remove and change bridges and remove obstructions, wall watercourses and
cover them over, and in connection therewith construct and maintain within
or outside of the city limits such channels, tunnels, aqueducts and ditches
as may be required and necessary to form an outlet and drain said water
carried by such watercourses into a creek, ravine or river, and build and
erect all walls, embankments, levees and ripraps to protect the banks
thereof, and for all or any of said purposes such cities may acquire, own
and hold by gift, purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent
domain in accordance with K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive, within or
without the city limits, within five (5) miles therefrom, or within twenty
(20) miles therefrom where it is necessary in order to obtain an adequate
water supply for such cities, all lands required and necessary therefor,
and pay all damages for property taken or injured and may enact any and all
ordinances for said purposes, but no such construction shall be made within
the corporate limits of any other city until such city shall first consent
thereto. In the construction and maintenance of such work and improvement
such city may receive aid and contributions toward the payment of the cost
thereof from, and may contract and cooperate with, municipal and other
corporations and individuals of this or any other state. The police
jurisdiction of the city shall extend over such lands as acquired beyond
the city limits except where such acquired land is already under the police
jurisdiction 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.