19-2648. Same; resolution; publication; protest petition; election.
19-2648
19-2648. Same; resolution; publication; protest petition;
election.
The board of county commissioners of any county may provide for the
collection of records, documents and other articles of historical value
or interest and may establish, maintain, display and provide housing
for, within the courthouse or elsewhere, an historical collection of the
records, documents and other articles so collected in the manner
hereinafter provided. Any such board desiring to so collect such things
of historical value or interest and to so establish, maintain, display
and provide housing for an historical collection shall adopt a
resolution declaring their intent to do so and that the same is of
historical and educational value. Said resolution shall be published
once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in the official county
paper. If a petition in opposition to the making of such collection and
the establishment, maintenance, display and housing of such historical
collection, signed by a number of legal electors of the county equal to
or greater than ten percent (10%) of the total vote cast for the office
of secretary of state in such county at the last preceding general
election is not filed with the county clerk within sixty (60) days after
the date of last publication of said resolution, said board may proceed
to provide for such collection and establish, maintain, display and
provide housing for such historical collection.
If such petition shall be filed, then the question of the providing
for such collection and the establishment, maintenance, display and
housing of such collection shall be submitted, at the next general
election, to the legal electors of the county for their approval or
rejection in the manner provided by K.S.A. 25-605. The question shall be
stated on the ballot
substantially as follows:
"Shall the board of county commissioners of ____________ county (here
insert name of county) provide for the collection of records, documents
and articles of historical value or interest and establish, maintain,
display and provide housing for an historical collection of such
records, documents and articles?"
If a majority of those voting on the question shall vote in favor of
said proposition, then the board of county commissioners shall proceed
to provide for such collection and establish, maintain, display and
provide housing for such an historical collection but if a majority of
the votes cast shall be against such proposition then said board shall
proceed no further.
History: L. 1955, ch. 179, § 2; L. 1961, ch. 142, § 1; June 30.