2-620.   Extension councils in certain counties; office facilities; taxlevy, use of proceeds; protest petition and election.In any county having a population of not less than sixty thousand(60,000) nor more than seventy-five thousand (75,000), the board ofcounty commissioners may levy, for a period not to exceed two years,a tax on all taxable tangible property in such county not in excess ofone-quarter (1/4) mill on each dollar of assessed valuation of suchproperty for the purpose of creating and providing a special fund to beused for the purchase of real estate, including any buildings orstructures thereon, and to make improvements on such real estate for thepurpose of providing office and meeting room facilities for an extensioncouncil operating under article 6 of chapter 2 of the Kansas StatutesAnnotated and acts amendatory thereof and to pay a portion of the principaland interest on bonds issued under the authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, andamendments thereto, by cities located in the county. No levy shall be made under theprovisions of this act until a resolution authorizing the making of sucha levy be passed by the board of county commissioners specifying theamount to be raised each year by such levy and published for threesuccessive issues in the official county newspaper within the county,whereupon such a levy may be made unless a petition in opposition to thesame, signed by not less than ten percent (10%) of the qualifiedelectors of such county, as determined by the vote for secretary ofstate in the last preceding election, is filed with the county clerk ofsuch county within thirty (30) days following the last publication ofsaid resolution.

      In the event such petition is filed it shall be the duty of the boardof county commissioners to submit the question to the voters at anelection called for such purpose at the next general election.

      History:   L. 1968, ch. 85, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 3, § 10; L. 1976,ch. 5, § 1; L. 1979, ch. 52, § 21; July 1.