The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-17

tSeaLI ana aHlxed my official seal this
this Sth day of March, 1915
BY 3. A coRNELiII'' a'e
Asst Secretary of State
Published in The Topeka State Journal
March IL, 1851
HOUSE BILL No. GOO.
AN ACT providing for the grading, paving
or otherwise improving OF roads and
jacent to and Wholly or eI partia afnd , Sq
rounded by the limits of city Of 9th the first
f fhn 1 and to levy and collect taxes for
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
Section l.. Whenever a road or street in
any city of the first class crosses land
city, but not included within the coyno SuGn
aradsd tnereof; the same may be paved,
said land as hereinafter proyided through
Sec: Whenever the resident owners of
on said street or road through such land
shall petition the beard of county commits
sioners or the county in which said road
OF street Is located for the grading, paving
OF otherw1se improving thereof, said board
OF county commissioners shall cause said
road or part thereof, to be graded, paved
or otherwise improved as prayed for in
,oS Sec. 3. Said petition shall set forth; the
minal points between which such
KIND Of imp aFs S9 be pr mSSs t the
and the number of annual assessmenta 70
pc pc maze III payment thereof, not exceeding
-, Sec. 4: Upon the filing of such petition.
the the, said tSa- board of county commissioners
snail tnereupon cause q survey of smell
street or road to be made by the county
surveyor and shall cause an estimate Of
thereof, together with a map, showing the
several or tracts acts of land abntting said
from for a distance of thirteen hundred
in the office Of the county cIe T of of t sald
county. vi '"i'
Sec. 8. The board of county commits
fhPFnnnnn -.
such improvements in accordance with si1ch
specifications and is authorized and empow-
Improvements and in payment for any
work done or for any material furnished
special improvements bonds. payable with
in the times set forth in said petition said
per cent per annum. All contracts shall
be let to the lowest responsible bidder the
to reject any and ali bids The '~ Contract tract
Tor grazing or excavating, in the judgment
the contract for paving or macadamizing
SAID commissioners may require a certified
pany each bid and may require the Success
ful contractor to enter into bond, with
equal to the estimated cost of such i'm
proyements, conditioned for the faithful
performance of such contract. Notice shall
be published in the official county paper
for thirty days previous to letting said
contracts. The county commissioners may
ent to oversee and direct the work to be
done hereunder who shall receive as com
pioyed, which compen sation shall be paid
Sec. 6. Upon the completion of any i'm
provement hereunder said commissioners
shall apportion one-half of the costs of
said improvements among the several tracts
of land designated in the map filed as
aforesaid according to the benefits accruing
to the real property and improvements
within the limits shown by said map; one
ab In
or townships in which such Improvements
shall be made, which shall be raised in the
taxes for all county and township purposes
Upon the completion of such apportion-
ment of the cost of such Improvement the
county clerk shall enter the same upon the
duplicate tax rolls of the county and the
taxes shall be collected as other taxes
Sec. Z. All necessary bridges and Gull
verts along the line of any such street or
pense of the county and paid for from the
general fund, the bridge fund of the
locating and mapping such street or road
shall be paid for by the county, and the
other county work. Provided, that this act
shall not be construed to supersede or re-
der which any county is now operating
building roads.
improvement specified in this act, there
should be a street car track upon and along
improved under the provisions Of
this act the persons or corporations own
ing said track shall make the grade there
Of correspond with the grade of said road
as established by said board of county com
missioners, and the cost of paving, grading
or otherwise improving the space between
the rails of said track and for one foot on
the outside of said rails shall be paid by
the person or corporation owning said
track, and such cost may be collected by
said county from , such p person or corpora
ton of such paving. grading or other i'm
said county commissioners shall
notice in writing to pave. grade or other
wise improve said road between the rails
Of such track and each side thereof as
aforesaid.
Sec O. The provisions of this act shall
not apply to the improvements of roads
costing less than two thousand dollars per
mile
N force from and after its publication in
he official state paper.
l hereby certify that the above Bill orig
&c, 1915.
1. n. WILLIAMS,
Speaker of the House pro tenn
i. e. LAMBERT
Chief Clerk of the House
Passed the Senate March 3, 1915.
w. Y. MORGAN
President of the Senate
BURT Il. BROWN,
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved March S, 1915.
ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor
State of Kansas
Office of Secretary of State
I, J. t. BOTKIN, Secretary of State of
he State of Kansas do hereby certify that
he above and foregoing is correct COPY
# the original enrolled bill now file in
N TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have
hereunto subscribed my name
lSeall and affixed my official seal. this
9th day of March. 1915
J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary Of State
BY f. A. CORNELL.