Kansas StatutesChapter 24 DRAINAGE AND LEVEES
- Article 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 24-101
- 24-101a. Definition of terms; act inapplicable to certain drainage districts.
- 24-102. Suits by state to recover lands wrongfully reclaimed from streams.
- 24-103. Same; drainage district may use land recovered.
- 24-104. Same; construction.
- 24-105. Obstructing flow of surface water; application to build levee; contents; examination by engineer; permit.
- 24-106. Same; landowners may construct outlets leading into general course of natural drainage.
- 24-107. Same; construction.
- 24-108. County drainage of surface waters along highways; tax levy; eminent domain; petition and agreement.
- 24-109. Same; warrants and assessments.
- 24-110. Same; construction.
- 24-111. Contracts by municipalities of bordering state with drainage district or public corporation of this state.
- 24-112. Same; parties.
- 24-113. Same; consent of foreign municipality to service of process.
- 24-114. Same; answer day; service and return of process; costs.
- 24-115. Depositories for funds of county treasurer belonging to drainage district; no interest.
- 24-116. County treasurer may be compensated for additional work performed under ch. 24, art. 4.
- 24-117. Completion of drainage-district work in counties between 90,000 and 135,000; resolution.
- 24-118. Same; payment of drainage-district funds to county treasurer; maintenance fund; outstanding bonds.
- 24-119. Same; powers transferred to county; district not dissolved.
- 24-120. Same; duties of county engineer and county attorney; superintendent, salary.
- 24-121. Same; general maintenance fund; tax levies; redemption of bonds.
- 24-122. Same; petition for return of powers to directors; election; transfer of funds.
- 24-123
- 24-124. Powers under 24-117 to 24-122 extended; additional powers.
- 24-125. Same; gifts; purchases; eminent domain.
- 24-126. Unlawful to construct fills and levees without prior approval of chief engineer, penalty; plans for levee, contents; approval of levee plans, considerations; fees; injunctions; rules and regul
- 24-127. Transfer of territory from one drainage district to another, when.
- 24-128. Same; petition; contents.
- 24-129. Same; notice and hearing.
- 24-130. Same; findings by county commissioners; transfer of territory or rejection of petition.
- 24-131. Same; existing indebtedness at time of transfer.
- 24-132. Certain drainage districts traversed or touched by Kansas river authorized to provide for flood control works and improvements; regulation of excavations; bonds, limitations; election, when; t
- 24-133. Same; no-fund warrants, limitations.
- 24-134. Issuance of bonds.
- 24-135. Officers and employees; salary and expenses.
- 24-136. Special emergency fund; transfer of surplus money.
- 24-137. Consolidation of districts; procedure; petition; election.
- 24-138. Annexation of land; Finney county; procedure.
- 24-139. Dissolution of districts; procedure; protest petition; election; jurisdiction of city and county; district's assets and bonded indebtedness.
- 24-139a. Finney county drainage district; directors, election, terms.
- 24-140. Transfer of territory; definitions.
- 24-141. Same; alternative procedure.
- 24-142. Same; procedure; petition, hearing; duties of board of county commissioners; appeal of board's decision.
- 24-143. Same; bonded indebtedness.
- Article 2 DRAINAGE WITHIN TOWNSHIP
- Article 3 DRAINAGE OF SWAMPS, BOTTOMS OR LOWLANDS WITHIN COUNTY
- Article 4 DRAINAGE DISTRICTS WITHIN COUNTIES OR CITIES
- 24-401. Organization of drainage districts; duties of board of county commissioners.
- 24-402. Lands within cities may be included in drainage district.
- 24-403. Petition for organization of drainage district; definitions.
- 24-403a. Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
- 24-404. Time and notice of hearing.
- 24-405. Hearing of petition; corporate name; perpetual succession.
- 24-406. Record of organization; first election; description of lands.
- 24-407. Powers of drainage districts.
- 24-408. Powers of districts incorporated under law of 1905.
- 24-408a. Sanitary sewers of district; bonds.
- 24-409. Board of directors; members' qualifications and terms.
- 24-410. Who may vote at elections; definitions.
- 24-411
- 24-412. Elections of directors, when; term of office.
- 24-412a. Directors' names and district description to secretary of state.
- 24-413. Vacancy in office of director.
- 24-414. Manner of nomination and election of directors; election boards; notice of election; who entitled to vote; election expenses.
- 24-415. Organization of board; record of proceedings; treasurer, powers and duties; bond; county treasurer's duties.
- 24-416. Meetings of board.
- 24-417. Engineer; plans and specifications.
- 24-418. Improvements authorized; estimate; construction; bonds; election.
- 24-419. Board to determine work to be done; surveys; estimates; reports.
- 24-420. Action of board on engineer's report; special election; issuance of bonds.
- 24-421. Change of channel of natural watercourse; issuance of bonds; levy of assessments.
- 24-422. Assessment of cost against landowners; appointment of assessors, qualifications.
- 24-423. Same; meeting of taxpayers, when; notice; vote.
- 24-424. Hearing on assessments; notice; equalization; time for bringing actions.
- 24-425. Election upon bond issue; notice; canvass of returns.
- 24-426. Manner of letting contracts; bond of contractor; tools and machinery.
- 24-427
- 24-428. Bond elections; costs included.
- 24-429. Prevention of overflow of streams.
- 24-430. Installment assessments or bonds.
- 24-431, 24-432
- 24-433. Levy and collection of assessments to pay bonds.
- 24-434. Construction and purposes of act; limitation of actions.
- 24-435. Supplemental assessments to correct errors.
- 24-436. Relevy of assessments; when.
- 24-437. Order requiring railroad to elevate tracks; mandamus.
- 24-438. Eminent domain proceedings.
- 24-439 to 24-442
- 24-443
- 24-444
- 24-445, 24-446
- 24-447
- 24-448. Contracts with federal agencies.
- 24-449. Cooperation of districts; aid from persons or corporations; letting of contracts.
- 24-450. Contract with railroad company.
- 24-450a. Counties of 140,000; contract with railroad company; tax levy.
- 24-451. Section 24-426 inapplicable to 24-448 to 24-450.
- 24-452. Sewers through levees; floodgates and pumping apparatus; duty of cities; costs.
- 24-453. Watercourses on boundary of district; jurisdiction; sale of abandoned channel.
- 24-454. Lands in abandoned watercourse; sale; appraisement.
- 24-455. Failure of director to perform duty; penalty.
- 24-456. Penalty for unlawful acts.
- 24-457. Liability for damages for injury.
- 24-458. Incorporation of district where owners of three-fifths of land are nonresidents; petition.
- 24-459. Directors; election; term; eligible voters.
- 24-459a
- 24-460. Same; application of act of 1905.
- 24-461. Same; application of act.
- 24-462. Additional assessments where installment levies and bond proceeds insufficient; limitation.
- 24-463. Enlargement of district; petition.
- 24-464. Same; contents of petition.
- 24-465. Same; notice of hearing.
- 24-466. Same; hearing on petition.
- 24-467. Same; eminent domain proceedings.
- 24-468. Same; drainage outside district; agreement with landowner.
- 24-469. Same; benefits to adjoining land; incorporation into district; proceedings.
- 24-470. Harbor lines along navigable streams.
- 24-471. Appropriation of land at harbor lines.
- 24-472. How appropriation made; duties of governor.
- 24-473. Penalty for interfering with possession of such property; removal from property.
- 24-474. Action to ascertain ownership of and compensation for such land.
- 24-475. Payment of judgment, cost and award; bonds; tax levy; reversion of land, when; damages.
- 24-476. When railway company not to be deprived of easement in such land.
- 24-477. Removal of personal property from land so appropriated; mandamus.
- 24-478. Sections 24-470 to 24-480 supplemental to act of 1905.
- 24-479. Grant of easements in strip of land so appropriated; relinquishment of land.
- 24-480. Concurrent remedies.
- 24-481. Application for incorporation of drainage district under article 7; when.
- 24-482. Notice of hearing on application; publication; continuance.
- 24-483. Duties of county commissioners; style and powers of drainage district.
- 24-484. Directors, qualifications; voters, qualifications.
- 24-485. Laws governing district after incorporation.
- 24-486. Authority and powers of drainage district; bond issue; with and without election.
- 24-487. Validity of 24-481 to 24-487a.
- 24-487a. Construction of 24-481 to 24-487.
- 24-488
- 24-489. Dike or levee improvement in certain districts.
- 24-490. Same; acquisition of land.
- 24-491. Same; money or credits from federal government.
- 24-492. Same; bonds.
- 24-493. Same; duties of county engineer.
- 24-494
- 24-495. Expenditure from general fund.
- 24-496. Same; improvements authorized.
- 24-497. Same; limitations.
- 24-498. Detachment of certain lands; petition; hearing; notice; territory liable for outstanding bonded indebtedness.
- 24-499. Dissolution of districts having no bonded indebtedness; petition, notice and hearing; resolution; funds, disposition; county commissioners' powers as to dormant districts.
- 24-499a. Same; expenditure of funds from district without budgeting.
- 24-4,100. Dissolution of certain inoperative districts located wholly within cities; procedure.
- Article 5 DRAINAGE IN VALLEY OF NATURAL WATERCOURSE
- Article 6 DRAINAGE IN ONE OR MORE COUNTIES
- 24-601. Formation of drainage district by owners of swamp or overflowed lands; articles of association.
- 24-601a. Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
- 24-602. Summons to owners of real estate.
- 24-603. Objections of landowners heard by district court; finding of fact; exclusion of land not benefited.
- 24-604. Record of proceedings.
- 24-605. Elections, supervisors and bonds and no-fund warrant issues; vacancies.
- 24-606
- 24-606a. Annual election of supervisors; notice.
- 24-607. Oath of supervisors.
- 24-608. Organization of board of supervisors; district treasurer; county treasurer's duties.
- 24-609. Topographical survey; classification and basis for assessment of benefits; maps and profile; engineer.
- 24-610. Drain commissioner; term; duties; bond; oath.
- 24-611. Annexation of land to district; procedures; limitations.
- 24-611a. Agreements to allow drainage from land located outside district.
- 24-612. Rights of way and removal of obstructions in streams; eminent domain proceedings.
- 24-613. Hearing of objections to report of engineer; notice; filing of report.
- 24-614. Who may file objections to report; adjournments of hearings.
- 24-615. Powers and duties of board upon hearing objections to report; no appeal, when; board may modify decision.
- 24-616. Hearings to objections to engineer report; costs; fees.
- 24-617. Appeal from decision of board; bond; transcript; procedure.
- 24-618. Tax levies; installments; correction of assessments; certification of levies.
- 24-619. Supplemental assessments.
- 24-620. Expenses apportioned to street, highway or railroad; collection.
- 24-621. Issuance of bonds; levy to pay bonds; temporary loan.
- 24-622. Resolution for bond issue.
- 24-623. Lien of assessments; sinking fund.
- 24-624. Sale of bonds; use of proceeds; deposit of money.
- 24-625. Powers and duties of board; works affecting highway, railroad or state property.
- 24-626. Letting of contracts for improvements; bond of contractor; work under direction of drain commissioner.
- 24-627. Scope of act.
- 24-628. Outlet or discharge of more than one district into stream; apportionment of cost.
- 24-629. Outlet for lateral drains.
- 24-630. Subdistrict where land separated from drainage; petition.
- 24-631
- 24-632. Warrants.
- 24-633. Compensation and expenses of officers and employees.
- 24-634. Levy upon lands for repair of improvements; assessment of costs where repair made necessary by negligence of landowner.
- 24-635. Overseers; appointment; powers and duties.
- 24-636. Civil liability for obstructing or injuring property; penalty.
- 24-637. Construction of act; defects in assessments; modification of assessments.
- 24-638. Contest of assessments.
- 24-639. District to be body politic and corporate; corporate name; general powers.
- 24-640. Construction of act; petition required, when.
- 24-640a. Perpetual succession.
- 24-641. Legalizing drainage districts created by district court or board of county commissioners.
- 24-641a. Same; special election of officers, when.
- 24-642. Same; boundaries legalized.
- 24-643. Same; bond issues legalized.
- 24-644. Same; tax levies and assessments legalized.
- 24-645. Same; acts done in conformity to law legalized.
- 24-646. Same; application of act.
- 24-647. Disorganization of drainage district; petition; nature of hearing; resolution; board of trustees.
- 24-648. Same; duties of trustees.
- 24-649. Same; how funds secured by trustees; tax levy.
- 24-650. Same; notice of disorganization; filing of claims.
- 24-651. Same; funds for payment of claims.
- 24-652. Same; care and sale of property.
- 24-653. Same; final report and discharge of trustees.
- 24-654. Renewal, extension and restoration of articles of incorporation; petition to court; record.
- 24-655. Same; validation of prior acts; vesting of property rights and credits; liabilities.
- 24-656. Drainage districts organized with territory in two or more counties; definitions.
- 24-657. Same; authorization.
- 24-658. Same; petition by verified landowners; county clerk to furnish record of ownership, when.
- 24-658a. Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
- 24-659. Same; contents of petition; form; map.
- 24-660. Same; circulation of counterpart of petition; city territory included, when; copies of petitions filed with county clerk and secretary of state; findings and endorsement by secretary of state;
- 24-661. Same; certification to chief engineer; investigation, report and approval or disapproval; approval required, when; transmittal of approval to secretary of state and to chairman of steering com
- 24-662. Same; meeting of steering committee, notice; committee constitutes initial board of directors; election of officers; election on organization of district; certification of results to secretary
- 24-663. Same; payment of costs and expenses when proposed district not approved; tax levies; disposition of funds.
- 24-664. Same; district as body politic and corporate; powers; designation of home office.
- 24-665. Same; no-fund warrants to pay initial organization and administrative expenses; limitation; tax levy to pay; annual ascertainment and certification of valuation in joint district.
- 24-665a. Same; annual meeting; notice; elections.
- 24-666. Same; act supplemental to existing laws.
- 24-667. Extension of territory of joint district; petition; approval of secretary of state and chief engineer.
- 24-668. Dissolution of portion of joint district; petition, contents; hearing; findings; report; certificate of dissolution; powers and duties of chief engineer.
- Article 7 DRAINAGE ON PETITION TO COURT
- Article 8 LEVEES
- Article 9 WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT
- Article 10 CONSERVANCY ACT
- Article 11 CONSOLIDATION OF CERTAIN DRAINAGE OR LEVEE DISTRICTS
- Article 12 WATERSHED DISTRICTS
- 24-1201. Title of act.
- 24-1201a. Declaration of public necessity for creation of districts; power; benefits.
- 24-1202. Definitions.
- 24-1203. Establishment of district by petition.
- 24-1203a. Establishment of district initiated by board of county commissioners.
- 24-1204. Contents of petition; form.
- 24-1205. Petition, circulation; inclusion of city or part thereof within proposed boundaries, identification; filing and determination of sufficiency of petition.
- 24-1206. Sufficient petition transmitted to chief engineer; investigation, report and approval or disapproval; approval required, when; transmittal of approval to secretary of state and to chairperson
- 24-1207. Meeting of steering committee; notice; election of board of directors; officers; election on organization of district; voting places and election procedures; certification of results to secre
- 24-1208. Payment of costs and expenses when petition or resolution is disapproved by engineer or defeated by voters; tax levy.
- 24-1209. Corporate powers and duties.
- 24-1210. Directors; number; terms; expenses.
- 24-1211. Election of directors at annual meeting; report of financial condition, projects and activities; notice and conduct of elections; vacancies; changes in number of directors or date of annual m
- 24-1212. Open meetings of directors; notice; quorum.
- 24-1213. General plan, estimate of costs and information as to benefits; transmittal to chief engineer, when; open to public; report to directors.
- 24-1214. Financing proposed projects; methods; resolution as to costs; public hearing; notice, contents; appearances; written statement required; transmittal of written statements to chief engineer; a
- 24-1214a. Districts adopting general plan prior to April 1, 1961; method of financing; procedure.
- 24-1215. Approval of bond issue by qualified voters of district required; notice; election procedures; tax levies for financing costs; resolution, publication; protest petition; election.
- 24-1216. Order and procedure as to specific projects; surveys, plans, specifications and estimates of costs; filing with secretary of board; open to inspection; transmittal of approved plans to chief
- 24-1217. Computation of special assessments; appraisement and apportionment; resolution; limitations; hearing of complaints; notice; alterations; resolution fixing assessments; notice to landowners; b
- 24-1218. Right of entry upon lands in connection with work of district; damages.
- 24-1219. No-fund warrants for initial expenses; annual tax levies for general fund expenses; increased levies, procedure; tax levies for no-fund warrants and bonds; structure maintenance fund.
- 24-1220. Improvement bonds for works of improvement; terms; how payable; limitation on bonded indebtedness.
- 24-1221. Act supplemental to other laws.
- 24-1222. Chief engineer authorized to transfer territory from one district to another, when; petition.
- 24-1223. Same; contents of petition.
- 24-1224. Same; presentment of petition to chief engineer; notice and hearing.
- 24-1225. Same; findings, decisions and declarations of chief engineer.
- 24-1226. Same; liability for outstanding bonded indebtedness.
- 24-1227. Extension of territory of district; petition, contents; approval of chief engineer.
- 24-1228. Dissolution of district, when; resolution; petition; election; certificate of dissolution.
- 24-1229. Dissolution of portion of district; petition, contents; powers and duties of chief engineer; notice and hearing; evidence; findings, filing; certificate of dissolution; recordation; removal o
- 24-1230. Notification of directors upon dissolution or partial dissolution of district; duties of secretary, treasurer and directors; effective date of dissolution; recordation of certificate of disso
- 24-1231. Disposition of funds of totally or partially disorganized district; duties of treasurer.
- 24-1232. Minutes and records of totally dissolved district filed with county clerk.
- 24-1233. Districts established prior to July 1, 1961; confirmation and validation; procedure.
- 24-1234. Intermittent closing of roads within watershed district; county roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of county commissioners; publication and notice.
- 24-1235. Same; township roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of township trustees; publication and notice.
- 24-1236. Same; county bridge and township road, 24-1234 applies; approval by board of township trustees.
- 24-1237. Same; costs of publication and notice; permit to require road markers.
- Article 13 LITTLE ARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED DISTRICT