19-1585. Certain counties over 50,000; additional bonds for site and the building and equipping of courthouse or jail; resolution.
19-1585
19-1585. Certain counties over 50,000; additional bonds for site
and the building and equipping of courthouse or jail; resolution.
That any county having a population of more than fifty thousand (50,000)
and in which there is no city of the first class, which prior to the
effective date of this act, has levied taxes and created a special fund
under the provisions of section 19-1569 of the General Statutes
Supplement of 1947, for the purpose of acquiring a site for and
building, equipping and furnishing a courthouse and jail, or for any one
or more of such purposes the board of county commissioners may adopt a
resolution stating (a) the total amount necessary to pay for said
project, and (b) the total amount necessary for such special fund as
stated in the original resolution adopted pursuant to the provisions of
section 19-1569 of the General Statutes Supplement of 1947, and (c) the
total amount of bonds, if any, which have been issued under the
provisions of section 19-1570 of the General Statutes Supplement of
1945, and section 19-1570 of the General Statutes Supplement of 1947,
and (d) the total amount, to the date of adoption of said resolution,
collected by said county pursuant to the levy authorized by section
19-1569 of the General Statutes Supplement of 1947, and (e) that the
total amount so collected by tax levy is insufficient to pay for said
project and that it is necessary to issue and sell bonds, stating the
amount thereof.
Such resolution shall be published for three successive weeks in the
official county paper; whereupon, such bonds, in an amount not exceeding
that stated in the resolution, herein provided, as the amount necessary
to be issued, which amount of bonds together with (1) the amount
collected by the levy authorized by said section 19-1569 of the General
Statutes Supplement of 1947, and (2) the total amount of bonds therefore
issued under the provisions of section 19-1570 of the General Statutes
Supplement of 1945, and section 19-1570 of the General Statutes
Supplement of 1947, shall not exceed by more than one hundred
twenty-five (125) percent the total amount stated in the original
resolution of the board adopted and published in accordance with the
provisions of section 19-1569 of the General Statutes Supplement of
1947, may be issued and sold under the term of this act: Provided,
That no bonds shall be issued under this act until the question of
issuing the same shall have been submitted to the qualified electors of
the county at an election as provided for in K.S.A. 19-1587.
History: L. 1949, ch. 212, § 1; April 12.