13-1388.   Off-street parking facilities, acquisition and dispositions;use for other purposes.Any city of the first or second class may, as hereinafter provided,acquire by purchase, lease, gift or condemnation any land or lands in anyareas zoned as business, commercial or industrial districts in such cityfor off-street parking facilities, and may dispose of improvements thereonnot appropriate to parking uses, if such there be and may improve any suchland or lands by the construction of a building thereon, or otherwise, soas to provide parking facilities.

      In acquiring any land for off-street parking facilities by condemnationthe provisions of K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive, shall apply to and befollowed in such condemnation proceedings. Title in fee simple to any landor lands condemned under this act shall vest in the city upon the paymentby the city of the amount of the award in the manner provided in K.S.A.26-501 to 26-516, inclusive: Provided, That if any land or lands,including the improvements placed thereon, so acquired by purchase orcondemnation shall become unsuitable or unusable as an off-street parkingfacility, the governing body, by resolution, may discontinue the use ofsaid land as such parking facility and use the same for other publicpurposes.

      History:   L. 1951, ch. 175, § 1; L. 1955, ch. 101, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 234, §34; Jan. 1, 1964.