15-101.   Cities of third class; government.All municipal corporations of the territory or state of Kansas,heretofore organized as cities, towns, or villages, containing not morethan two thousand inhabitants (and not heretofore organized as cities ofthe second class), including cities of the third class organized inaccordance with the provisions of the act of which this is amendatory, andincluding also all unincorporated towns (without regard to theirpopulation) which may now or hereafter be constituted a county seat of anycounty, shall be cities of the third class, and shall be governed by theprovisions of this act; and all rights and privileges accrued under and byvirtue of, or provided by, any act of the legislature of the territory orof the state of Kansas, before the day on which this act shall take effect,to any such municipal corporation, are hereby confirmed and preserved tosuch corporation, and the citizens thereof, respectively.

      History:   L. 1871, ch. 60, § 1; L. 1886, ch. 66, § 1; L. 1917, ch. 114, § 1;May 26; R.S. 1923, § 15-101.