12-6,104.   Same; publication of joint resolution; mailing of assessmentnotices; protest petition and election; qualified elector defined.Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 12-6a06, whenever a joint stormwater drainage district is created under K.S.A. 12-6,102, the governingbody of the city and the board of county commissioners of the county shallpublish the joint resolution creating the district once each week for twoconsecutive weeks in the official newspaper of the county. At the same timeas the joint resolution is published for the last time, the city or countyclerk shall mail to the owners of the property made liable to pay an assessmentat their last known post office address, a notice that a joint resolutionhas been adopted to create the joint storm drainage system and a statementof the cost proposed to be assessed against the land so owned. If, withinsixty (60) days following the last publication of the resolution and themailing of the notices to the individual landowners, a petition protestingthe creation of the district signed by not less than five percent (5%) ofthe qualified electors of the proposed district is filed with the countyelection officer, no district shall be created unless the proposition hasbeen submitted to and approved by a majority of the qualified electors ofthe district voting at an election called and held thereon. Qualified electorfor the purpose of this act shall mean any person eighteen years of ageor over who is a resident of the proposed joint storm drainage districtor who owns land within the proposed district. Such election shall be noticed,called and held in the manner prescribed for the noticing, calling and holdingof elections under the general bond law.

      History:   L. 1980, ch. 58, § 3; July 1.