15-11b11.   Attachment of territory outside county; petition; order;notice; tax levies.Whenever a community building district has been organized within any countyas authorized by K.S.A. 15-11b01 to 15-11b10, and amendments thereto,territory adjacent thereto but located in another county may be attached tosuch district as hereinafter provided.

      Upon presentation to the board of directors of the community buildingdistrict of a petition setting forth the boundaries of the area petitionedto be attached to the district and signed by not less than 51% ofthe qualified electors ofthe area, as determined by anenumeration taken and verified for this purpose by the county electionofficer of the county in which thearea proposed to be attached is located, it shall be the duty of the boardof directors of the communitybuilding district, at its next annual meeting, to examine the petition andif it finds the same to be in order and further finds it to the bestinterest of the district to attach such territory located outside thecounty, it shall issue an order attaching such territory to the districtand shall give notice thereof to the county clerk of the county wherein theterritory petitioned to be attached is located.

      Such attached territory shall thereafter be subject to the tax levied bythe district, and all residents within the attached territory shallthereafter be eligible to attend and to vote at all annual meetings, andthe district including the attached territory shall thereafter be governedinsofar as practicable by the provisions of K.S.A. 15-11b01 to 15-11b10,and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, except as hereinafterprovided.

      History:   L. 1963, ch. 132, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 82, § 2; July 1.