13-1376.   Same; petition; limitation of actions.After a benefit district has been established, no further proceedingsshall be taken unless there is filed with the city clerk within sixty (60)days of the passage of the ordinance creating the benefit district apetition requesting the establishment of public parking stations. Suchpetition shall be signed by the resident owners of real estate owning notless than fifty-one percent (51%) of the front feet of the real estatefronting or abutting upon any street included within the limits of thebenefit district. In determining the sufficiency of the petition, landsowned by the city, county, state or United States or by nonresident ownersof real estate within the benefit district shall not be counted in theaggregate of lands within such benefit district. After any petition hasbeen signed by an owner of land in the benefit district, the change ofownership of said land shall not affect the petition.

      In any case where the owners of lands within the benefit district aretenants in common or joint tenants, each cotenant or joint tenant shall beconsidered a landowner to the extent of his or her undivided interest insaid land. The owner of a life estate shall also be deemed the solelandowner for the purpose of this act. Conservators may petition for theirconservatees when authorized by the district court so todo. Resident owner of land, as defined herein, shall be any landowner whohas resided in the city for thirty days prior to the passage of the ordinanceand owning land in the benefit district. A Kansas corporation having itsregistered office in the city and owning land in the benefit district shall be deemed aresident landowner. No suit shall be maintained in any court to enjoin orin any way contest the establishment of such parking stations or theestablishment of a benefit district unless said suit be instituted andsummons served within thirty (30) days from and after the date of thefiling of such petition with the city clerk.

      History:   L. 1941, ch. 128, § 3; L. 1949, ch. 142, § 2; L. 1965,ch. 134, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 145, § 39; Jan. 10, 1977.