17-1356.   Disorganization and annexation of cemetery district toother district in same county, when; procedure.Any cemetery district organized under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-1330,17-1330a, 17-1331 to 17-1334and 17-1335, and acts amendatory thereof, and adjacent orcontiguous to another cemetery district located in the same county, maybe disorganized and annexed to such adjacent or contiguous district ashereinafter provided.

      Whenever a petition describing the territory of the districtrequesting disorganization and annexation, and signed by not less thanfifty-one percent (51%) of the qualified electors of the district, asdetermined by an enumeration taken and verified for this purpose by somequalified elector of the district requesting annexation, is presented tothe board of county commissioners of the county in which the cemeterydistricts lie, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissionersat its next regular meeting to examine the petition, and if it findsthat the two districts are adjacent, that the petition is signed by therequisite number of qualified electors, and that the district directorsof the district to which it is proposed to annex the petitioningdistrict have approved such annexation, the board shall enter an orderin its proceedings disorganizing the petitioning district and annexingsuch district to the adjacent or contiguous district.

      History:   L. 1961, ch. 119, § 1; June 30.