Article 27.--PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS; IMPROVEMENT AND SERVICE DISTRICTS
19-27,181.Sedgwick county; public improvements; definitions.
When used in this act:
(a) "Acquire" means the acquisition of property or interests in property
by purchase, gift, condemnation or other lawful means and may include the
acquisition of existing property and improvements already owned and
previously financed by the county;
(b) "benefit district" means an area deemed by the governing body to be
benefited by an improvement and subject to special assessment for all or a
portion of the cost of the improvement;
(c) "consultant" means engineers, architects, planners, attorneys and
other persons deemed competent to advise and assist the governing body in
the planning, making and financing of improvements;
(d) "cost" means all costs necessarily incurred for the preparation of
preliminary reports, the preparation of plans and specifications, the
preparation and publication of notices of hearings, resolutions and other
proceedings, necessary fees and expenses of consultants and interest
accrued on borrowed money during the period of construction; and the cost of
issuing bonds, including amounts necessary to fund reserves, together with
the cost of land, materials, labor and other lawful expenses incurred in
planning and doing any improvement which may include a charge of not to
exceed 5% of the total cost of an improvement or the cost of work done by
the county to reimburse the county for the services rendered by the county
in the administration and supervision of such improvement by its general
officers. Where property and improvements already owned by the county
and previously financed by the issuance of revenue bonds is acquired the
cost shall include not to exceed the principal amount of such outstanding
revenue bonds plus the amount of matured interest, interest maturing within
90 days, and the amount of any call premium or purchase premium required;
(e) "county" means Sedgwick county, Kansas;
(f) "governing body" means the board of county commissioners;
(g) "improve" means to construct, reconstruct, maintain, restore,
replace, renew, repair, install, equip, extend or to perform any
work which will provide a new facility or enhance, extend or restore the
value or utility of an existing facility;
(h) "improvement" means any type of improvement made under authority of
this act and includes reimprovement of a prior improvement.
Such term shall
not include residential wastewater treatment projects, projects located within
a residential subdivision, or projects that would serve only residential areas
or that would extend services only to residential areas;
(i) "newspaper" means any one of the official designated newspapers of the
county;
(j) "storm water and sanitary sewer systems" means any trunk lines,
outfall or intercepting sewers, manholes, pumps, pumping stations, lift
stations, disposal plants, and any appurtenances and apparatus necessary
for the collection, storage, treatment and disposal of storm water or sanitary
sewage and wastewater;
(k) "street" means street, highway, road, alley, avenue, boulevard or
other public way or any part thereof.
Article 27.--PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS; IMPROVEMENT AND SERVICE DISTRICTS
19-27,181.Sedgwick county; public improvements; definitions.
When used in this act:
(a) "Acquire" means the acquisition of property or interests in property
by purchase, gift, condemnation or other lawful means and may include the
acquisition of existing property and improvements already owned and
previously financed by the county;
(b) "benefit district" means an area deemed by the governing body to be
benefited by an improvement and subject to special assessment for all or a
portion of the cost of the improvement;
(c) "consultant" means engineers, architects, planners, attorneys and
other persons deemed competent to advise and assist the governing body in
the planning, making and financing of improvements;
(d) "cost" means all costs necessarily incurred for the preparation of
preliminary reports, the preparation of plans and specifications, the
preparation and publication of notices of hearings, resolutions and other
proceedings, necessary fees and expenses of consultants and interest
accrued on borrowed money during the period of construction; and the cost of
issuing bonds, including amounts necessary to fund reserves, together with
the cost of land, materials, labor and other lawful expenses incurred in
planning and doing any improvement which may include a charge of not to
exceed 5% of the total cost of an improvement or the cost of work done by
the county to reimburse the county for the services rendered by the county
in the administration and supervision of such improvement by its general
officers. Where property and improvements already owned by the county
and previously financed by the issuance of revenue bonds is acquired the
cost shall include not to exceed the principal amount of such outstanding
revenue bonds plus the amount of matured interest, interest maturing within
90 days, and the amount of any call premium or purchase premium required;
(e) "county" means Sedgwick county, Kansas;
(f) "governing body" means the board of county commissioners;
(g) "improve" means to construct, reconstruct, maintain, restore,
replace, renew, repair, install, equip, extend or to perform any
work which will provide a new facility or enhance, extend or restore the
value or utility of an existing facility;
(h) "improvement" means any type of improvement made under authority of
this act and includes reimprovement of a prior improvement.
Such term shall
not include residential wastewater treatment projects, projects located within
a residential subdivision, or projects that would serve only residential areas
or that would extend services only to residential areas;
(i) "newspaper" means any one of the official designated newspapers of the
county;
(j) "storm water and sanitary sewer systems" means any trunk lines,
outfall or intercepting sewers, manholes, pumps, pumping stations, lift
stations, disposal plants, and any appurtenances and apparatus necessary
for the collection, storage, treatment and disposal of storm water or sanitary
sewage and wastewater;
(k) "street" means street, highway, road, alley, avenue, boulevard or
other public way or any part thereof.
Article 27.--PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS; IMPROVEMENT AND SERVICE DISTRICTS
19-27,181.Sedgwick county; public improvements; definitions.
When used in this act:
(a) "Acquire" means the acquisition of property or interests in property
by purchase, gift, condemnation or other lawful means and may include the
acquisition of existing property and improvements already owned and
previously financed by the county;
(b) "benefit district" means an area deemed by the governing body to be
benefited by an improvement and subject to special assessment for all or a
portion of the cost of the improvement;
(c) "consultant" means engineers, architects, planners, attorneys and
other persons deemed competent to advise and assist the governing body in
the planning, making and financing of improvements;
(d) "cost" means all costs necessarily incurred for the preparation of
preliminary reports, the preparation of plans and specifications, the
preparation and publication of notices of hearings, resolutions and other
proceedings, necessary fees and expenses of consultants and interest
accrued on borrowed money during the period of construction; and the cost of
issuing bonds, including amounts necessary to fund reserves, together with
the cost of land, materials, labor and other lawful expenses incurred in
planning and doing any improvement which may include a charge of not to
exceed 5% of the total cost of an improvement or the cost of work done by
the county to reimburse the county for the services rendered by the county
in the administration and supervision of such improvement by its general
officers. Where property and improvements already owned by the county
and previously financed by the issuance of revenue bonds is acquired the
cost shall include not to exceed the principal amount of such outstanding
revenue bonds plus the amount of matured interest, interest maturing within
90 days, and the amount of any call premium or purchase premium required;
(e) "county" means Sedgwick county, Kansas;
(f) "governing body" means the board of county commissioners;
(g) "improve" means to construct, reconstruct, maintain, restore,
replace, renew, repair, install, equip, extend or to perform any
work which will provide a new facility or enhance, extend or restore the
value or utility of an existing facility;
(h) "improvement" means any type of improvement made under authority of
this act and includes reimprovement of a prior improvement.
Such term shall
not include residential wastewater treatment projects, projects located within
a residential subdivision, or projects that would serve only residential areas
or that would extend services only to residential areas;
(i) "newspaper" means any one of the official designated newspapers of the
county;
(j) "storm water and sanitary sewer systems" means any trunk lines,
outfall or intercepting sewers, manholes, pumps, pumping stations, lift
stations, disposal plants, and any appurtenances and apparatus necessary
for the collection, storage, treatment and disposal of storm water or sanitary
sewage and wastewater;
(k) "street" means street, highway, road, alley, avenue, boulevard or
other public way or any part thereof.