The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-23
LEGAL.

nc buildings, bridges and viaduets 'front.'
over any park, boulevard, street or other
Puonc ground shall be submitted to and
St3pproyed by said board before the cree
Sec. S. The board of commissioners
SnaIl nave power and it shall be its duty
ana use of parks, Pathways and boule-
eraros WITHIN the city, and to prescribe
INES INES and penalties for the violation of
Sec. 9. 1t shall be the duty of the board
VI commissioners to divide the territory
Wlthln the corporate limits of such city
INTO park districts; and whenever and so
eoIten as the city shall extend or change
divide added territory into new park dis
IrlctS, or add the same to the districts al
ready established; so as to divide the
extended or changed into park districts.
sec. 10. 1t shall be the duty of the board
one park in each park district,
and to purchase or otherwise
acquire, if necessary, real estate
hereby authorized and empowered to pro-
Vlde Tor the purchase, condemnation or
and boulevards. And whenever said
board shall select any land for parks,
forthwith to provide for the acquisition
by purchase, condemnation or otherwise,
as II may deem best, of such lands Pay
ment for any such land may be made in
whole or in part out of the park fund
of the district in which such land is Situ-
ated, or from the funds obtained by the
issue and sale of general bonds of the
city, payable by tax upon the taxable
property props of any one or more park park dis
by the board.
Sec. II. When any board of commits
sioners shall deem it necessary to issue
general bonds of the city for any of the
purposes specified in this act, they shall
find and declare by an order to be entered
upon their journal whether or not such
general bonds shall be paid by tax to
be levied upon all the taxable property
of all the park districts of the city or
upon the taxable property situate in any
one or more park districts into which such
city may be divided, and shall provide
fer the payment of such bonds and inter-
est in conformity Herewith.
Sec. ID. When the board of commits
Sioners of any city shall deem it neces-
sary. in order to pay for land for parks,
parkways or boulevardS, they may issue
and sell to obtain funds therefor, the ne
gotiable bonds of such city in a sum not
to exceed the estimated cost of the I'M
provement, payable in not less than ten
nor more than twenty years from the
exceed five per cent interest, payable
semiannually, and to be in denominations
Said bonds shall not be sold at less than
par. Each issue of such bonds shal be
payable in inStallmentS, and at least one
tenth of the total amount >of each issue
of such bonds shall become due each year
after the expiration of ten years from the
date thereof Said board shall annually
levy and certify to the county clerk, to
be placed upon the tax roll, tax suffi-
eient to pay the t interest," on SuHn 19nos
Sec. Is. Before any board of commits
sioners shall enter into any contract or
debt. under authority of this act to the
amount of more than five thousand dol
lars. such board of commissioner M sna s5i
terms such proposed Improvement, ana
cause to be made by some competent per
son an estimate under oath OF the cost
thereof, and said estimate shall be filed
in the office of the clerk of such city
The board of commissioners shall, at their
first regular meeting after the filing of
such estimate with the city clerk thereof,
consider and pass upon the same, and II
three-fifths of all the members thereof.
approve such estimate, then the said
fhoritv to execute such contract issue
such bonds or incur SUCH dept.
Sec. IA. No board of commissioners
shall issue general bonds OF any sue9 city
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in any
one calendar year, and the total amount
this act shall not at any time exceed in
amount one per cent of the assessed value
Nv I'll the tie Term general bonds" as used in
this act. is meant bonds which by the
terms of this act are to be paid by gen
eral tax upon all the taxable property
situated in any one or more park districts
When general bonds are issued on account
of the cost of widening or extending any
such bouievards. the board of commits
sioners shall determine the amount of
general benefit by reason of such i'm;
bonds in excess of said amount, and may
levy special assessments for the full
amount OF ali special neneI1tS ~ 3 re 1aS9a
specially benefited thereby, not to exceed
in any instance the amount OF such
Sec. Is All bonds issued under the pro-
visions of this act shall contain recital
that same are issued under the provisions
nf this act and in conformity with the
provisions, restrictions and limitations
thereof, and that such bonds and the IN
terest thereon are to be paid by tax
levied upon all the taxable property In
any designated park district or districts
of such city or by the levy OF specd5ai las, as
recital shall be conclusive in favor Of all
persons purchasing such bonds that al
proper orders have been made, proceed
ings taken and conditions precedent per-
formed and existing to authorize the issue
of such bonds and the levy OF All taxes
and asSessme ntS necessary for the pay
ment thereof.
Sec. 16 The board shall determine
when 1t is necessary to grade, pave, ma
cadamize, curb or gutter any street, park
way or boulevard, and the plans, specl-
fications and material for such work and
such determination shall be final. For
ali having, maeadamizing curbing and
guttering of streets. parkways and boule-
wards special assessments therefor may be
apportioned and levied on each block sep
arately on all lots and pieces of land to
the center of the block each side of
such boulevard the distance improved IN
case of grading. the assessment district
shall extend to the center of the blocks
on each side of the street, parkway or
boulevard graded and for the entire dis
lance graded. Whenever any street,
parkway or boulevard shall be graded,
curbed, guttered, paved or macadamized,
and the lots or pieces of land abutting
on such improvement shall not be divided
! into lots or blocks. the special assessment
herein provided for shall be made on the
/ lots or pieces of land adjoining such inn
provement through which the same may
! be located to the distance of three hun
bred feet from the street or alley upon
which such improvements are made, eX-
tending along the street, parkway or
boulevard the distance improved or to be
/ improved; provided, that in no case shall
I the benefit district extend more than half
way to the street, parkway, boulevard
or public highway parallel with and next
to the public street parkway or boulevard
| to be improved. Special assessments may
be levied for such improvements on each
! lot and tract of land in the assessment