19-3601.   Fire districts; organizations; name; governing body; dutiesof county clerk and county treasurer; delegation.The board of county commissioners of any county of the state is herebyauthorized and empowered to organize one or more fire districts in anyportion of the county not within an incorporated city, and the entirecounty or the major portion thereof may be organized as one firedistrict and any city of the second and third classes may be includedwithin such district as hereafter provided. No fire district or part ofa fire district may be included within a fire district under this act,except as provided in K.S.A. 19-3611, and amendments thereto. Eachsuch fire district shall be named and numbered by the said board in theorder of their organization as "Fire District No. _____ (such number asshall be assigned), County of _____ (name of county), Kansas". Incounties adjoining another state having rural fire protection districtsadjacent to their county-state boundary lines, fire districts may benamed and numbered by said board in the order of their organization as"Rural Fire Protection District No. _____ (such number as shall beassigned), County of _____ (name of county), Kansas."

      The board of county commissioners of the county shall be andconstitute the governing body of each fire district within the county. The county clerkof the county shall be the secretary of said board as the governing bodyof each of said fire districts and shall have such other duties ascounty clerk as provided by this act. The county treasurer shall receiveand have custody of all of the funds of each fire district and shallexpend the same upon the order of the governing body of each suchdistrict as provided by law. The board of county commissioners maydelegate any of the powers and duties of the county clerk and countytreasurer prescribed by this section to any other person deemedqualified by the board. The board of county commissioners shall requireany person to whom such powers and duties are delegated to execute agood and sufficient surety bond issued by a surety company authorized todo business in this state, in an amount fixed by the board which shallnot be less than the amount of money such person will be responsible forat any one time.

      History:   L. 1953, ch. 161, § 1; L. 1955, ch. 171, § 1; L.1977, ch. 102, § 1; L. 1979, ch. 75, § 3; July 1.