19-2868. Same; powers of board.
19-2868
19-2868. Same; powers of board.
The board shall have power:
(a) To finance, operate, improve and maintain the parks and playgrounds
of the district as provided in this act;
(b) to accept by gift or devise, to purchase, lease and to condemn real
estate for use as parks and playgrounds for the district, and to sell any
improvements of any real estate so acquired not usable for park purposes
or to take down such improvements and use or dispose of the salvage and
use any of the proceeds thereof for park purposes without regard to budget
limitations. To contract with school boards for joint use and improvement
of school lands for park and playground purposes;
(c) to improve the parks and playgrounds for the recreation, amusement
and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the district;
(d) to levy taxes for the acquisition of lands and improvements and operation,
improvement and maintenance of the parks and playgrounds as authorized and
limited by this act;
(e) to issue bonds of the district for acquiring real estate and the improvement
thereof for park and playground purposes upon authorization of the qualified
electors of the district by election and within the limitations provided by this act;
(f) to appoint park and recreation supervisory personnel and employ such
other employees, servants, police and agents as may be necessary for the
proper and adequate operation, improvement and maintenance of the park and
recreation district, and may appoint, employ or retain attorneys, engineers,
landscape architects, surveyors and other professional or technical persons
or firms for a period or for specified projects and pay the necessary compensation
therefor;
(g) to adopt, promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations
for the operation and use of the parks and playgrounds and the conduct of
persons using such parks and playgrounds as provided by this act;
(h) to sell or salvage equipment found to be worn out or beyond repair
or dangerous to use or to trade it in as part payment on new equipment,
and the proceeds when respent or the trade-in value shall not be charged
against the budget but may be in addition to the amount authorized for expenditure
by the budget;
(i) to sell and convey real estate acquired by purchase, condemnation,
gift or devise when it appears such property is no longer needed for
park, playground or recreational purposes, or is poorly situated for such
purposes, or is poorly suited for such purposes, with the proceeds of such
sale to be deposited in the land acquisition fund authorized by K.S.A. 19-2873b,
and amendments thereto. No such sale shall be made except upon authorization
of the majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of the district
at an election called and held for such purpose as provided
by this act. If the instrument of gift or devise vests fee title in the
district or authorizes the district to sell the real property, such property
may be sold by the procedure herein provided. The board, when in its
judgment deemed advisable and to the best interests of the district, by
proper conveyances, may exchange any tract of land for lands similar in value,
or exchange money and land for other land suitable for park or recreation
purposes, or exchange land for land and money totaling the value of the
land conveyed, provided that the money involved does not exceed 25% of the
total value of the land involved, without vote of the qualified electors
of the park district, subject to a public hearing having first been held
with respect to such proposed exchange of lands, after notice of the time,
place and purpose thereof, including a legal description of said lands,
published once each week for two consecutive weeks prior thereto, in the
official county paper, and subject further to
final approval of such proposed exchange of lands, by the board of county
commissioners of Johnson county, Kansas. The board may by proper conveyance
exchange, transfer, sell, or lease any tract of district land with or without
improvements to the state of Kansas, a political subdivision thereof, or
an agency of the United States government, if the board determines that
such property can properly be maintained and operated as park, playground,
or recreational facilities by such governmental agency, or that such property
may be utilized in whole or part in a contract with said governmental agencies
in, on, or around other property of
such governmental units, all or any part of which is located within boundaries
of such district;
(j) to adopt, change and modify a seal for the district and to use such
seal in attestations by the secretary and in all other cases where a seal
is required or advisable;
(k) to cooperate with the Kansas department of wildlife and parks and
with Miami county in the operation, improvement and
maintenance of Hillsdale state park and to enforce rules and
regulations for the operation of such park land; and
(l) to do and perform all other things provided by this act or amendments
thereto and to have all the powers prescribed by this act, and to carry
out and exercise the powers of the district as its governing body.
History: L. 1953, ch. 170, § 10; L. 1963, ch. 189, § 1; L. 1969,
ch. 158, § 4; L. 1970, ch. 113, § 4; L. 1977, ch. 98, § 4; L. 1983,
ch. 101, § 1;
L. 1988, ch. 105, § 1; April 28.