Kansas Statutes

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  • 24-101 Repealed.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  • 24-105 Repealed.
  • 24-106 Repealed.
  • 24-107 Repealed.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  • 24-123 Repealed.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
  • Law Review and Bar Journal References:

    "Condemnation of Water and Water Rights in Kansas," John C. Peck and Kent Weatherby, 42 K.L.R. 827, 845 (1994).

  • 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

  • DRAINAGE ACT OF 1905 AND AMENDMENTS

    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 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 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.

  • ACTS SUPPLEMENTAL TO DRAINAGE ACT OF 1905

    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.

  • HARBOR LINES

    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.

  • POWERS AND JURISDICTION OF DISTRICTS IN COUNTIES BETWEEN 85,000 AND 130,000 INCORPORATED UNDER ARTICLE 7

    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.

  • MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

    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

  • ACTS PRIOR TO 1963

    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.

  • ACT OF 1963

    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.

  • ACT OF 1973

    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
  • Cross References to Related Sections:

    See 24-481 through 24-487a.

  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
  • Attorney General's Opinions:

    Levees; powers of county commissioners. 90-69.

  • 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
  • Cross References to Related Sections:

    State division of water resources, see 74-506a et seq.

    Waters and watercourses, see chapter 82a.

    Watershed districts, see chapter 24, article 12.

    Law Review and Bar Journal References:

    "Kansas Water Assurance Districts," John C. Peck, 40 K.L.R. 903, 916 (1992).

  • 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
  • Revisor's Note:

    Act for Missouri River boundary line interstate agreement, 82a-521 through 82a-527b.

  • 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
  • Cross References to Related Sections:

    Agreements with cities, see 12-635, 12-638.

    Law Review and Bar Journal References:

    Some legal aspects of the act, Edward Larson, 7 K.L.R. 376 (1959).

    "Procedure in Formulating Watershed Districts," Arno Windscheffel, 36 J.B.A.K. 13, 15 (1967).

    "Kansas Water Assurance Districts," John C. Peck, 40 K.L.R. 903, 916 (1992).

    Governmental Ethics Commission Opinions:

    Watershed districts; contracting officers; duties; qualifications; restrictions; definitions; watershed district is not a state agency but is a governmental subdivision. 94-29.

    Attorney General's Opinions:

    Formation of watershed districts; elections; qualified voters. 94-36.

    Use of district funds to administer and cost-share water quality projects. 98-52.

  • FORMATION OF 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.

  • GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF DISTRICT

    24-1209 Corporate powers and duties.

  • GOVERNING BODY

    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.

  • PROCEDURE FOR WATERSHED PROJECTS AND IMPROVEMENTS

    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.

  • TAXATION AND BONDED INDEBTEDNESS

    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.

  • TRANSFER AND EXTENSION OF TERRITORY

    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.

  • COMPLETE OR PARTIAL DISSOLUTION

    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.

  • VALIDATION OF DISTRICTS CREATED PRIOR TO JULY 1, 1961

    24-1233 Districts established prior to July 1, 1961; confirmation and validation; procedure.

  • INTERMITTENT CLOSING OF ROADS SUBJECT TO FLOODING

    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.