19-1596.   Counties acquiring voting machines; building for storingand servicing and for other uses; resolution; plans and specifications;acquisition of site; costs; bonds.The board of county commissioners of any county which has acquired orwhich hereafter may acquire voting machines pursuant to the provisionsof K.S.A. 25-1307 through 25-1343, is hereby authorized to construct andequip a building, or topurchase an existing building and remodel the same, to be located in asuitable and desirable place in such county, for the primary purpose ofhousing, storing and servicing voting machines, provided such board ofcounty commissioners shall, by resolution unanimously adopted by saidboard, finds and determines that such county does not have eitheradequate or sufficient space for the housing, storing and servicing ofsuch voting machines and such other related county records andequipment. Upon the adoption of such resolution, the board of countycommissioners of such county shall estimate, determine and fix the totalcost of acquiring a site for such building, if such be necessary, theerecting and equipping of a building, or the purchasing and remodelingof an existing building, which total cost shall not exceed one-fourth ofone percent of the total assessed tangible valuation of such county atthe time of the adopting of such resolution.

      The board of county commissioners of such counties shall employ acompetent licensed architect or architects to make surveys for theerecting and equipping of such building or the purchasing and remodelingof an existing building, to prepare plans and specifications thereforand to supervise all work to be performed in the erecting and equippingor in the remodeling of an existing building so acquired. The board ofcounty commissioners of such counties is hereby authorized to providespace in said building for the office of the election commissioner ofthe county and for the carrying out of the several functions and dutiesof such office.

      The board of county commissioners of such counties may, by and withthe consent of the state department of social welfare, and the federalgovernment, provide for the location of the several offices of the localcounty board of welfare and its employees in said building; and inconnection therewith, such county board is authorized to receive grantsand aids from the federal government in the erecting and equipping ofsuch offices in such building to be used for social welfare purposes. Inconnection with the plan for the erecting and equipping of such buildingor the purchasing and remodeling of an existing building the board ofcounty commissioners of such counties is further authorized to acquire asite, if one be needed for such building, either by purchase, gift or bythe right of eminent domain under the general condemnation statute, andthe cost of acquiring such vacant site or existing building shall becomputed in the total cost of erecting and equipping or remodeling suchbuilding, as the case may be, and the total cost thereof shall notexceed one-fourth of one percent of the total assessed tangiblevaluation of such county.

      The actual cost of acquiring a building site and of erecting andequipping such building, or an existing building, under the provisionsof this act, may be paid from the proceeds of the sale of generalobligation, negotiable bonds issued by such county in an aggregateamount not exceeding the said sum stated in the resolution to beunanimously adopted by such board of county commissioners.

      History:   L. 1959, ch. 151, § 1; June 30.