19-15,123


Chapter 19.--COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS


Article 15.--COUNTY BUILDINGS

     
19-15,123.   Additional courtrooms and facilities for
probate and juvenile
matters in counties over 300,000; no-fund warrants or general obligation
bonds; tax levies.

The board of county commissioners of any county in this state having a
population of more than 300,000 may
provide
additional courtrooms, offices and other facilities as are required by
the district court judge to carry out probate and juvenile matters.
The quarters and facilities shall be constructed and furnished in
available space of the courthouse. The board of county
commissioners is hereby authorized to issue no-fund warrants or general
obligation bonds for the
purpose of paying all costs incurred in providing additional quarters
and facilities. Before such warrants shall be issued the board of county
commissioners shall have received from the chief judge
of the
district court a resolution certifying to the necessity of additional
quarters. Such no-fund warrants shall be issued in the manner and form,
bear interest and be redeemed as prescribed by K.S.A.
79-2940, and amendments thereto, except that warrants may be
issued without approval of the state
court of tax appeals, and without the notation required by
K.S.A. 79-2940, and amendments thereto.
The board of county commissioners shall make a tax levy at the first tax
levying period after such warrants are issued, sufficient to pay such
warrants and the interest thereon. In lieu of making only one tax levy,
the board of county commissioners may, if it deems it advisable, make a
tax levy each year for not to exceed five years in approximately
equal installments for the purpose of paying the warrants and the
interest thereon. All such tax levies shall be in addition to all other
levies authorized or limited by law and shall not be subject to or
within the aggregate tax levy limitation prescribed by article 19 of
chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and
amendments thereto.
None of the provisions of the state budget law shall apply to any
expenditure which has been provided for by the issuance of warrants
under this act. General obligation bonds issued under the authority of
this act shall be issued in the manner prescribed by the general bond law
but shall not be subject to or within any bonded debt limitation prescribed
by any other law of this state and shall not be considered or included in
applying any other law limiting bonded indebtedness.

     
History:   L. 1969, ch. 146, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 145, § 71; L. 1977,
ch. 92, § 1;
L. 1999, ch. 57, § 4;
L. 2008, ch. 109, § 44; July 1.