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Chapter 15.--CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS

PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS


Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

     
15-117.   Same; duties of county clerks; hearing.
The county clerk shall examine the petition, if such a petition is required,
signatures and attached
matter as prescribed by K.S.A. 15-116, as amended, and if it appears the petition is in
proper form, that the inhabitants of the territory number 300 or more or
that the territory contains
300 or more
platted lots each served by water and sewer lines owned by a nonprofit
corporation, and that 50 or more electors of the territory have
signed the petition, or that the territory has been designated as a national
landmark, the county clerk shall so report to the board of
county commissioners at its next regular meeting and it shall designate
a time and place for a hearing on the petition, such time to be not less
than 30 nor more than 90 days from the date the petition was filed. The
place of the hearing shall be at a place
convenient for most of the inhabitants of the territory.

     
History:   L. 1963, ch. 509, § 3; L. 1967, ch. 113, § 2; L. 1981,
ch. 86, § 2; July 1.