19-3602. Same; resolution, contents; notice and hearing; abandonment or alteration of proposal; adoption of final resolution; publication, effect.
19-3602
19-3602. Same; resolution, contents; notice
and hearing; abandonment or alteration of proposal; adoption of final
resolution; publication, effect.
Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, the board of county
commissioners upon its own motion or as
provided in K.S.A. 19-3603, and amendments
thereto, may proceed to organize any or all portions of
its county into one or more fire districts by the adoption of a
resolution at some regular or adjourned regular meeting of the board
which shall recite that it is advisable in the public interest that a
district or districts be organized in the county for the protection of
lives and property from the hazards of fire and shall describe the
limits and boundaries of the proposed district or districts
under its or their proposed name or names. No fire
district or part of a fire district heretofore or hereafter existing by
virtue of law may be included within a fire district under this act,
except as provided in K.S.A. 19-3611, and amendments thereto. The
proposed districts may be
described by metes and bounds or by township boundaries or names, or
such districts may be described by existing school districts or any
organized special districts containing the area of the proposed
district. Such resolution shall be published once each week for three
consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and of general circulation in
the area where the lands are located, or if there
is no such newspaper,
then in the official county paper. Each such resolution shall be
published in connection with a map showing the territory of the proposed
district or districts and a notice of a hearing on the advisability of
organizing each such district. The notice shall fix a time not less
than 10 days after the last publication thereof for a hearing
before the board of county commissioners at a stated hour and place
which may be at the county courthouse or at a place within each of the
districts.
Any taxpayer or elector residing in the county, and any city therein,
shall be entitled to appear in person or in its corporate capacity, or
by counsel, and be heard on the advisability of organizing such
districts. The board, at such hearing, may accept proposals for
alteration of the proposed district by the inclusion of additional
territory or by the
exclusion of territory from any proposed district. The board may
adjourn the hearing from day to day without further published notice and
may fix a time for the final determination of the proposal to organize
any such districts. At such time or times the board may abandon any
proposal or it may adopt a final resolution organizing and naming the
fire district or districts and declaring the boundaries thereof as
finally determined. Each such district shall be finally and fully
organized upon the publication of the resolution or resolutions one
time in a newspaper published and of general circulation in the area
where the lands are located or, if there is no such
newspaper, then in
the official county paper.
History: L. 1953, ch. 161, § 2; L. 1965, ch. 188,
§ 1;
L. 1986, ch. 70, § 15; May 15.