19-1927.   Abandoned jail and site; sale; conveyance to historicalsociety, when; conditions.Whenever any county or board of county commissioners in this state ownsa tract of real estate formerly the site for its county jail, and the sameis no longer used for that purpose, and a new county jail has been builtelsewhere in such county, and such abandoned jail and its site is no longerin the judgment of the board of county commissioners of such county neededfor county jail purposes, the board of county commissioners of such county,without a vote of the people or of the electors of such county, may (a)sell and dispose of such real estate either at public or private sale, forcash or other consideration and on such terms as the board of countycommissioners of such county deems to be the best interests of the county,or (b) convey by deed, without consideration, such jail and site to ahistorical society incorporated under the laws of Kansas as a charitable orbenevolent corporation for the purposes of a historical society, if theboard finds that such jail and site should be preserved as a historicalsite or monument: Provided, Such conveyance shall be upon thecondition that the title shall revert to the county when the property is nolonger maintained and used by such historical society for the purpose forwhich it was conveyed.

      History:   L. 1937, ch. 199, § 1; L. 1957, ch. 174, § 1; June 29.