19-3602.   Same; resolution, contents; noticeand hearing; abandonment or alteration of proposal; adoption of finalresolution; publication, effect.Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, the board of countycommissioners upon its own motion or asprovided in K.S.A. 19-3603, and amendmentsthereto, may proceed to organize any or all portions ofits county into one or more fire districts by the adoption of aresolution at some regular or adjourned regular meeting of the boardwhich shall recite that it is advisable in the public interest that adistrict or districts be organized in the county for the protection oflives and property from the hazards of fire and shall describe thelimits and boundaries of the proposed district or districtsunder its or their proposed name or names. No firedistrict or part of a fire district heretofore or hereafter existing byvirtue of law may be included within a fire district under this act,except as provided in K.S.A. 19-3611, and amendments thereto. Theproposed districts may bedescribed by metes and bounds or by township boundaries or names, orsuch districts may be described by existing school districts or anyorganized special districts containing the area of the proposeddistrict. Such resolution shall be published once each week for threeconsecutive weeks in a newspaper published and of general circulation inthe area where the lands are located, or if thereis no such newspaper,then in the official county paper. Each such resolution shall bepublished in connection with a map showing the territory of the proposeddistrict or districts and a notice of a hearing on the advisability oforganizing each such district. The notice shall fix a time not lessthan 10 days after the last publication thereof for a hearingbefore the board of county commissioners at a stated hour and placewhich may be at the county courthouse or at a place within each of thedistricts.

      Any taxpayer or elector residing in the county, and any city therein,shall be entitled to appear in person or in its corporate capacity, orby counsel, and be heard on the advisability of organizing suchdistricts. The board, at such hearing, may accept proposals foralteration of the proposed district by the inclusion of additionalterritory or by theexclusion of territory from any proposed district. The board mayadjourn the hearing from day to day without further published notice andmay fix a time for the final determination of the proposal to organizeany such districts. At such time or times the board may abandon anyproposal or it may adopt a final resolution organizing and naming thefire district or districts and declaring the boundaries thereof asfinally determined. Each such district shall be finally and fullyorganized upon the publication of the resolution or resolutions onetime in a newspaper published and of general circulation in the areawhere the lands are located or, if there is no suchnewspaper, then inthe official county paper.

      History:   L. 1953, ch. 161, § 2; L. 1965, ch. 188,§ 1;L. 1986, ch. 70, § 15; May 15.