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Chapter 24.—DRAINAGE AND LEVEES
Article 1.—GENERAL PROVISIONS
24-101
Repealed.
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
Repealed.
24-106
Repealed.
24-107
Repealed.
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 chapter 24, article 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
Repealed.
24-124
Powers under K.S.A. 24-117 through 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 regulations.
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; tax levies.
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
24-201
Power of township trustee.
24-202
Petition for work; bond; notice to property owners; ditch through two or more townships.
24-203
Repealed.
24-204
Duties of township trustee; eminent domain proceedings; assistance of engineer; adjournments.
24-205
Cost of work; assessments.
24-206
Penalty for obstructing ditch, drain or stream; damages.
24-207, 24-208
Repealed.
24-209
Repealed.
24-210, 24-211
Repealed.
24-212
Sale of work to lowest bidder.
24-213
Certification of sales to county clerk; assessments; payment; time for action to enjoin.
24-214
Repealed.
24-215
Corporation benefited to pay part of expense.
24-216
Widening or deepening ditch, drain or watercourse established under K.S.A. 24-201 through 24-215.
24-217 through 24-219
Repealed.
Article 3.—DRAINAGE OF SWAMPS, BOTTOMS OR LOWLANDS WITHIN COUNTY
24-301
Board of county commissioners to establish ditches, drains or streams.
24-302
Drainage ditch, drain or watercourse; maintenance and repair; tax levy, use of proceeds.
24-303
Petition to be filed; bond; notice to persons owning lands.
24-304
Repealed.
24-305
Duties of county commissioners; eminent domain proceedings; assistance of engineer; adjournments.
24-306
Division into sections; performance of work; fees and costs; assessments.
24-307
Penalty for obstructing ditch, drain or stream; damages.
24-308
Repealed.
24-309
Repealed.
24-310
Repealed.
24-311
Repealed.
24-312
Repealed.
24-313
Sale of work to lowest bidder.
24-314
Commissioners to certify to county clerk the amounts due for sections sold; payment of such amounts; amounts placed on tax roll.
24-315
Repealed.
24-316
Corporation benefited to pay part of expense.
24-317
Act does not repeal K.S.A. 24-201 through 24-215.
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
Repealed.
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; filing fee; 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 the board; executive session authorized, when.
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
Repealed.
24-428
Bond elections; costs included.
24-429
Prevention of overflow of streams.
24-430
Installment assessments or bonds.
24-431, 24-432
Repealed.
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 through 24-442
Repealed.
24-443
Repealed.
24-444
Repealed.
24-445, 24-446
Repealed.
24-447
Repealed.
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 K.S.A. 24-426 inapplicable to K.S.A. 24-448 through 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
Repealed.
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 K.S.A. 24-470 through 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 K.S.A. 24-481 through 24-487a.
24-487a
Construction of K.S.A. 24-481 through 24-487.
24-488
Repealed.
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
Repealed.
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
24-501
Drainage districts organized in valley of natural watercourse; procedure.
24-502
Petition; time for hearing; notice.
24-502a
Inclusion of land located in other benefit districts.
24-503
Hearing on petition; report to secretary of state.
24-504
Proclamation by governor; date for election of directors; record of proceeding.
24-505
Places for holding elections; judges and clerks.
24-506
Board of directors, qualifications; term.
24-507
List of freeholders; persons entitled to vote.
24-508
Ballots and nominations.
24-509
First election.
24-510
First meeting of directors; organization of board; definition of boundaries of district.
24-511
Appeal on location of boundary line.
24-512
Powers of district.
24-513
Engineer; salary; duties.
24-514
Rules for plans, specifications and estimates.
24-515
Plans and data to be submitted to engineering school of state university or Kansas state university.
24-516
Bond election; notice; canvass of returns.
24-517
Issuance of bonds.
24-518
Record of bonds; levy for interest and sinking fund.
24-519
Benefits assessment commission; compensation, duties.
24-520
Apportionment of benefits.
24-521
Repealed.
24-522
Prevention of overflow of natural watercourse.
24-523
Filing of benefits assessment commission report; notice of assessments; appeal.
24-524
Hearing of complaints; notice; report.
24-525
Letting of contracts for work; bond of contractor.
24-526
Smaller district previously organized; application of act.
24-527
Directors; election.
24-527a
Vacancy on board; appointment.
24-528
Scope and application of act.
24-529
Construction of 24-501 through 24-529.
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
Repealed.
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
Repealed.
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; notice to steering committee.
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 committee.
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 of state; certificate of incorporation, issuance and recording; action attacking incorporation, limitation.
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
24-701
Application to district court for drainage in certain cases; petition; bond.
24-702
Hearing and proceedings on the petition; notice; commissioners, bonds, oath and duties; remonstrance by landowners; appeal to supreme court, time.
24-703
Joinder in petition.
24-704
Pending proceedings.
24-705
Duties of commissioners upon second reference of petition; assessments; report; remonstrances; hearing; modification, change and approval of report.
24-706
Finality of court order; commencement of work.
24-707
Lien and payment of assessments.
24-708
Treasurer to pay to clerk amounts collected; payment of damages assessed.
24-709
Superintendents of construction; payment for labor and materials.
24-710
Fees; compensation of clerk and commissioners.
24-711
Account by clerk of collections and disbursements; account open to inspection.
24-712
Petition for repair work.
24-713
Liens of laborers; surplus funds after repairs.
24-714
Construction of act; defects in assessments; supplemental assessments.
24-715
Penalty for obstruction or injury of ditch or drain.
Article 8.—LEVEES
24-801
Powers of county commissioners.
24-802
Petition for levee; bond; eminent domain proceedings.
24-803, 24-804
Repealed.
24-805
Repealed.
24-806
Repealed.
24-807
Specifications and estimates.
24-808
Contracts; bids; construction by owner of land.
24-809
Letting of contracts; county liability.
24-810
Assessments of costs; surplus funds, use for repairs; additional assessments.
24-811
Supervisor for each levee; appointment, tenure, duties; summoning labor for emergency work; penalty for refusal.
24-812
Compensation of supervisor and employees.
24-813
Orders and regulations.
24-814
Compensation of surveyor, viewers and persons assisting.
24-815
Penalties for unlawful acts; removal of obstructions.
24-816
Construction of levee partly or wholly within city of first class; assessments; bonds.
24-817
Same; bonds; assessments.
24-818
Same; moneys, custody and use; right to use lands.
24-819
Same; levies and reassessments.
Article 9.—WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT
24-901
General plan for water development.
24-902
River gauging stations; surveys and investigations.
24-903
Transferred.
24-904
Repealed.
24-905
Entry on lands.
Article 10.—CONSERVANCY ACT (Not in active use)
24-1001
Repealed.
24-1002 through 24-1068
Repealed.
24-1069
Repealed.
24-1070
Repealed.
24-1071
Transferred.
24-1072, 24-1073
Repealed.
Article 11.—CONSOLIDATION OF CERTAIN DRAINAGE OR LEVEE DISTRICTS
24-1101
Certain lands ceded to Kansas by Missouri; consolidation.
24-1102
Same; petition; notice and hearing; consolidation resolution; record of proceedings.
24-1103
Same; certified copy of resolution to district court or county commissioners.
24-1104
Same; governing body of consolidated district; election; terms.
24-1105
Same; unpaid tax levies.
24-1106
Same; funds from Missouri; disbursement.
24-1107
Same; funds used for benefit of former Missouri district; lien of bonds.
24-1108
Same; annual tax levies for bonds; payments.
24-1109
Same; assets and liabilities.
24-1110
Same; separate organization of district under Kansas laws; application of act.
24-1111
Same; tax levies when no consolidation or separate organization; duties of county commissioners.
24-1112
Same; special assessments.
24-1113
Same; construction of act.
24-1114
Same; invalidity of part.
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 of steering committee.
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 secretary of state; certificate of incorporation, issuance and recordation, when; actions attacking incorporation, limitations.
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 meeting; notice; procedure.
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; adoption, modification or rejection of general plan or method of financing; official general plan and official method of financing; resubmissions, when.
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 engineer, when; review of general plan; revisions of plan; report by chief engineer, requirements.
24-1217
Computation of special assessments; appraisement and apportionment; resolution; limitations; hearing of complaints; notice; alterations; resolution fixing assessments; notice to landowners; bonds and levies, when.
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 of director upon dissolution, effect.
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 dissolution.
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.
24-1238
Watershed district responsibilities transferred to city of Atchison.
24-1239
White Clay watershed district dissolved.
24-1240
White Clay watershed district property, contract and debt obligations transferred to city of Atchison.
Article 13.—LITTLE ARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED DISTRICT (Not in active use)
24-1301 through 24-1305
Repealed.