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KS Stat § 12-406 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-406 Maps and plats sufficient to vest title of lands conveyed for public use in city; effect of recordation.

12-406. Maps and plats sufficient to vest title of lands conveyed for public use in city; effect of recordation. Such maps and plats of such cities and towns, and additions, made, acknowledged, certified, filed and recorded with the register, shall be a sufficient conveyance to vest the fee of such parcels of land as are therein expressed, named or intended for public uses in the city, in trust and for the uses therein named, expressed or intended, and for no other use or purpose. The recording of such map or plat shall not constitute a conveyance of any interest in the oil, gas and other minerals underlying the avenues, streets, lanes, alleys and other parcels therein named or intended for public uses. The provisions of this act shall apply to all maps or plats, heretofore or hereafter made, acknowledged, certified, filed and recorded with any such register. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as granting any right to enter upon the surface of such parcels of land for purposes of exploring for or the extraction of such minerals, or in any other manner to interfere with the public uses named in such maps, plats and additions.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 6; R.S. 1923, § 12-406; L. 1958, ch. 6, § 1 (Special Session); L. 1984, ch. 65, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-406a (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-406a Fees to certain land held by county transferred to city.

12-406a. Fees to certain land held by county transferred to city. On the effective date of this act, the fee to any parcel of land intended for public use in cities of the first, second and third classes which is held in trust by the county is hereby transferred and conveyed to the city in which such property is located. The city shall hold the fee to such parcels of land intended for public use in the city in trust and for the uses therein named, expressed or intended and for no other use or purpose.History: L. 1984, ch. 65, § 2; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-407 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-407 Filing incomplete plat; forfeiture.

12-407. Filing incomplete plat; forfeiture. If any person, his or her agent or attorney, shall cause a map or plat of any such city or town or addition to be deposited with the register, which does not set forth and describe all parcels of ground which have been or shall be promised or set apart for public uses, and other lots, such person shall forfeit double the value of the ground so promised or pretended to have been set apart for public uses, and not set forth on the map or plat.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 7; October 31; R.S. 1923, § 12-407.
KS Stat § 12-408 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-408 Action by county to recover forfeitures.

12-408. Action by county to recover forfeitures. The forfeitures arising under this act may be recovered by action, with costs, in the name of and to the use of the county, or by indictment or information.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 8; October 31; R.S. 1923, § 12-408.
KS Stat § 12-409 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-409 Procedure by attachment or otherwise.

12-409. Procedure by attachment or otherwise. The property and effects of the person incurring such forfeiture may be proceeded against by attachment or otherwise, and in like manner and for the like causes as in ordinary cases of debt.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 9; October 31; R.S. 1923, § 12-409.
KS Stat § 12-410 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-410 Recordation of plat when land becomes part of new or different county.

12-410. Recordation of plat when land becomes part of new or different county. When any town plat shall be filed and recorded with the register of deeds of the county, and by reason of the establishment of any new county, or the alteration of any county lines, the city or town shall fall within a different county, such register shall transmit such plat to the register of deeds of the county within which such city or town may be, and it shall thereupon be recorded by him or her.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 10; October 31; R.S. 1923, § 12-410.
KS Stat § 12-411 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-411 Plats of cities laid off on public lands; conveyance to public use; penalty for obstructing.

12-411. Plats of cities laid off on public lands; conveyance to public use; penalty for obstructing. The plats of all cities and towns which have heretofore been laid off or which may hereafter be laid off on the public lands within this state shall be filed with the register and recorded as aforesaid, which plats shall accurately set forth the streets, squares, alleys, parks and avenues, and the width and extent thereof, which are intended for public use; and when so filed they shall be deemed a sufficient conveyance of such streets, squares, alleys, parks and avenues to such purposes; and any person occupying or in any wise obstructing such streets, squares, alleys, parks or avenues shall be held liable for damages as if such streets, squares, parks or avenues had been absolutely conveyed to public use, as specified in K.S.A. 12-406.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 11; October 31; R.S. 1923, § 12-411.
KS Stat § 12-412 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-412 Recordation of prior plats; fees.

12-412. Recordation of prior plats; fees. All plats of cities or towns or of additions thereto which have been heretofore filed in the office of the register of deeds or recorder of the proper county, and not recorded, shall be recorded by such register, and such register may collect his or her fees therefor from the proprietors of such city, town or addition, as any other debt.History: G.S. 1868, ch. 78, § 12; October 31; R.S. 1923, § 12-412.
KS Stat § 12-413 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-413 Action for restoration of lost chart or plat.

12-413. Action for restoration of lost chart or plat. Whenever the field chart, map or plat of any city, town or village in this state shall have been destroyed or lost, the mayor of any such city, the chairman of the board of trustees of any such town or village, the chairman of the board of commissioners of any county in which such corporation may be situated, or any person interested in the restoration of any such chart, map or plat, may bring an action for such purpose in the district court of such county, to establish the same, by filing a petition therefor in such court.History: L. 1872, ch. 160, § 1; March 28; R.S. 1923, § 12-413.
KS Stat § 12-414 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-414 Petition in such action.

12-414. Petition in such action. Such petition shall contain the name of the person or officer filing the same, the name of the county in which such action is brought, and of any person or persons whose interests such petitioner desires specially to foreclose by the judgment or decree prayed for, and an allegation of the destruction or loss of such chart, map or plat, and of the time of the filing thereof and of the destruction or loss thereof, as near as may be ascertained, and set forth the interest of the person or corporation in whose interest such action is brought, and of any or all others specially named therein; and shall be accompanied by a copy of the chart, map or plat alleged to have been destroyed or lost, setting forth the streets, parks, places, their names, the reserves and lots, with the correct location, dimensions and numbers of each respectively, and such petition shall be verified by the oath of the person or officer filing the same, or that of some one cognizant of the facts therein stated; and such verification may be made on information and belief.History: L. 1872, ch. 160, § 2; March 28; R.S. 1923, § 12-414.
KS Stat § 12-415 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-415 Summons in such cases; procedure.

12-415. Summons in such cases; procedure. On the filing of such petition the person or officer filing the same may file a praecipe with the clerk of such court, requiring him or her to issue a summons in said action, directed to the sheriff of said county, notifying such persons as may be named in such praecipe of the pendency of such action, and said clerk shall thereupon issue such summons in the form, manner and name in which, and of the purport of the summons provided for in civil actions under said code of civil procedure, and the said sheriff shall serve the same upon the persons named therein, and the same shall be returnable and he or she shall return the same in like manner as is provided by law for the service and return of summons in civil actions under said code; and such person or officer filing such petition shall cause a notice of the pendency of such action to be published for the time and in the manner as provided in Laws of 1909, chapter 182, section 80 [*], for the publication of a summons in a civil action.Such notice shall state the court in which the petition is filed, the name of the person or officer filing the same, the substance of the prayer thereof, and shall be addressed to all persons and corporations interested in the establishment on the records of the county (naming it), of the chart, map or plat of the town, village or city, as the case may be (naming it), and shall require that an answer or answers to said petition be filed on or before the time fixed therein, which time shall be the same as provided for in said section of the civil code of procedure, or such petition will be taken as true, and such chart, map or plat so established as prayed for; and no other naming of the persons or corporations, public or private, interested in said action, than as in this section provided, shall be required.History: L. 1872, ch. 160, § 3; March 28; R.S. 1923, § 12-415.* Now repealed. Later section, see 60-307(e).
KS Stat § 12-416 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-416 Answer or cross petition; who may file.

12-416. Answer or cross petition; who may file. Any person or corporation interested in the establishment or nonestablishment of such chart, map or plat, or any part thereof, within the time fixed in the notice provided for in K.S.A. 12-415, may file an answer to such petition in said court, which answer may consist of a denial of any or all the allegations of the petition, and may set forth any new matter relevant to the issues tendered by the petition, which answers shall be verified in the same manner as provided for the verification of the petition.History: L. 1872, ch. 160, § 4; March 28; R.S. 1923, § 12-416.
KS Stat § 12-417 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-417 Parties to action; rehearing.

12-417. Parties to action; rehearing. The county in which such chart, map or plat was filed, the town, village or city of which or a part of which, or an addition to which the same was a chart, map or plat, and any person or corporation owning or interested in any lot, reserve or real property within such town, village or city, shall be deemed parties in interest in the subject matter of such action, and parties thereto, and all and each thereof shall be barred by the judgment and decree therein rendered: Provided, That any party interested who shall not be served with summons, and had at the time of the pendency of the proceedings herein provided for no actual notice of the pendency thereof, may within the time prescribed for opening up judgments rendered, in which service was made by publication, open up any judgment or decree rendered under this act in like manner as other judgments rendered upon constructive service; but such opening-up of the judgment or decree shall not operate to allow parties who were in court actually, or by service of summons, at the time of rendering the judgment or entering the decree, to come in and set up any claim whatever.History: L. 1872, ch. 160, § 5; March 28; R.S. 1923, § 12-417.
KS Stat § 12-418 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-418 Trial and judgment.

12-418. Trial and judgment. The trial of the issues in any action brought under this act shall be by the court in which it is brought, and such court is authorized to enter such judgment and decree on default, or after trial, as the case may be, as in other civil actions, as the facts proved may warrant; and except as in this case provided, such trial and the proceedings therein, both before and after judgment, shall be governed by the rules of practice of the said code of civil procedure.History: L. 1872, ch. 160, § 6; March 28; R.S. 1923, § 12-418.
KS Stat § 12-419 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-419 Recordation of restored chart or plat.

12-419. Recordation of restored chart or plat. Any chart, map or plat established as in this act provided, by the decision, judgment or decree of a court, shall be entitled to be filed and recorded in the office of register of deeds of the county the same as is provided by law for the filing and recording of charts, maps or plats of cities, towns and villages, and such record and chart, map or plat shall have the same force and effect in law as the original chart, map or plat so lost or destroyed.History: L. 1872, ch. 160, § 7; March 28; R.S. 1923, § 12-419.
KS Stat § 12-420 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 4 - Plats Of Cities And Townsites|12-420 Correction of certain platting errors; procedure.

12-420. Correction of certain platting errors; procedure. If, after recording a subdivision plat, an error is found in distances, angles, bearings, subdivision or street names, block or lot numbers, the computation of dimension or elevation or other details of the plat, except in connection with the outer boundaries of the plat, and if the property described in that part of the plat containing the error is under the ownership of the person who caused the plat to be prepared, the engineer of the approving city or county, in which the property is located, after substantiation of the existence of the error may file an affidavit with the register of deeds that the error was made. The affidavit shall describe the nature and extent of the error and the appropriate correction. The register of deeds shall record the affidavit, and shall place in the margin of the recorded plat a notation that the affidavit has been filed, the date of filing and the book and page where it is recorded. The filing of the affidavit shall correct any such errors, but shall have no effect on the validity of the plat or any property interest recorded by reference thereto.History: L. 1983, ch. 90, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-503a (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 5 - Additions, Vacation And Lot Frontage|12-503a Annexation of parts of townships, improvement districts and other units; providing of services in area annexed; payment of cost.

12-503a. Annexation of parts of townships, improvement districts and other units; providing of services in area annexed; payment of cost. Whenever all or any part of any township, improvement district, or other governmental unit is annexed to any city, such township, improvement district or other governmental unit may, continue to furnish services for the year for which taxes have been levied or collected in those areas of the district annexed, or in the alternative, shall surrender the taxes collected to the annexing city to be used specifically for the purposes for which the tax was collected. No improvement district shall continue to make a levy for its general fund upon territory annexed to any city, from and after the effective date of such annexation.History: L. 1963, ch. 499, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 81, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-503b (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 5 - Additions, Vacation And Lot Frontage|12-503b Same; act inapplicable to school districts.

12-503b. Same; act inapplicable to school districts. The provisions of this act shall have no application with respect to schools, school districts, taxation for any school purpose or school services.History: L. 1963, ch. 499, § 2; June 30.
KS Stat § 12-504 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 5 - Additions, Vacation And Lot Frontage|12-504 Petition for vacation of site or addition, street or alley or for exclusion of land; deannexation of land or vacation of public reservation by city; notice; hearing.

12-504. Petition for vacation of site or addition, street or alley or for exclusion of land; deannexation of land or vacation of public reservation by city; notice; hearing. (a) The owner of: (1) Any townsite or part of a townsite; (2) any addition or part of an addition to any city; or (3) the lands adjoining on both sides of any street, alley or public reservation such as, but not limited to public easements, dedicated building setback lines, access control, or a part thereof, in any city that desires to have any townsite or part thereof, any addition or part thereof, or public easements, building setback lines, access control or part thereof vacated, or that desires to exclude any farming lands or unplatted tracts, or any addition or part of an addition from the boundaries of the city, shall petition the governing body of such city and request a public hearing on the issues. The governing body shall give notice of such request by publication in the official city newspaper and shall designate whether the hearing will be conducted by the governing body or the planning commission. The notice shall be published at least one time at least 20 days prior to the hearing. The notice shall state that a petition has been filed in the office of the city clerk requesting such vacation or exclusion, or both, describing the property fully. The notice shall specify whether the hearing is to be held before the governing body or the planning commission. All interested persons shall be given an opportunity to be heard on the petition.(b) Any city may initiate the deannexation of land from the city by following the notice and public hearing process established in subsection (a). The hearing shall be held before the city governing body.(c) A city may initiate the vacation of any public reservation by following the notice and public hearing process established in subsection (a). The hearing shall be held before the city governing body.History: R.S. 1923, § 12-504; L. 1963, ch. 72, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 82, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 65, § 3; L. 1997, ch. 147, § 1; L. 2021, ch. 44, § 3; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-505 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 5 - Additions, Vacation And Lot Frontage|12-505 Same; proceedings on petition.

12-505. Same; proceedings on petition. (a) (1) Upon the presentation of the petition to the governing body of the city or planning commission, the governing body or planning commission shall proceed to hear the petition, as provided in the notice. On the day of the hearing, the governing body or planning commission shall hear testimony on the propriety of granting the petition. If the planning commission holds the hearing, the commission shall make a recommendation regarding the vacation and submit such recommendation to the governing body in the same manner provided by K.S.A. 12-752, and amendments thereto, for the submission and approval of recommendations regarding plats.(2) If the governing body or planning commission determines from the proofs and evidence presented that legal notice has been given by publication as required, that no private rights will be injured or endangered by such vacation or exclusion, that the public will suffer no loss or inconvenience thereby and that in justice to the petitioner or petitioners the request of the petitioner ought to be granted, the governing body shall enact an ordinance containing the order that such vacation or exclusion, or both, be made. Any order approving a vacation of plat, street, alleys, easements or a public reservation shall provide for the reservation to the city and the owners of any lesser property rights for public utilities, rights-of-ways and easements for public service facilities originally held in such plat, street, alley, easement or public reservation then in existence and use.(3) The petition shall not be granted if a written objection is filed with the city clerk, at the time of or before the hearing, by any owner or adjoining owner who would be a proper party to the petition but has not joined therein. When only a portion of a street, alley or public reservation is proposed to be vacated, the petition shall not be granted if a written objection is filed with the clerk of the governing body by any owner of lands that adjoin the portion to be vacated.(b) Any lands excluded pursuant to this section shall be listed for future taxation as though the lands had never been a part of such city. The city clerk shall certify a copy of such ordinance containing the order to the register of deeds of the county in which such property is located. The register of deeds shall record in the deed records of the county at the expense of the petitioner or petitioners, and the register of deeds shall also write on the margin of the recorded plat of such townsite or addition, the words "canceled by order" or "canceled in part by order," as the case may be, giving reference thereon to the page and book of records where the ordinance containing the order is recorded in the register's office.History: L. 1905, ch. 519, § 2; R.S. 1923, § 12-505; L. 1967, ch. 82, § 2; L. 1984, ch. 65, § 4; L. 1997, ch. 147, § 2; L. 2021, ch. 44, § 4; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-506 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 5 - Additions, Vacation And Lot Frontage|12-506 Reversion of vacated street, alley or public reservation.

12-506. Reversion of vacated street, alley or public reservation. The streets, alleys or other public reservations which may be so vacated shall revert to the owners of the real estate immediately abutting thereon, according to the frontage of such real estate thereon: Provided, That all lands so reverting shall revert to the owners of abutting lands holding the same by title derived directly or indirectly from the owners of said lands from which said street or alley or public reservation was originally platted.History: L. 1905, ch. 519, § 3; February 18; R.S. 1923, § 12-506.
KS Stat § 12-507 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 5 - Additions, Vacation And Lot Frontage|12-507 Definition of terms.

12-507. Definition of terms. The terms "public loss or inconvenience" or "private right," as herein used, shall not be construed to extend to the taxes which may be levied upon the land vacated or excluded.History: L. 1905, ch. 519, § 4; February 18; R.S. 1923, § 12-507.
KS Stat § 12-508 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 5 - Additions, Vacation And Lot Frontage|12-508 Fees; issuance of subpoenas.

12-508. Fees; issuance of subpoenas. The county clerk, sheriff and witnesses shall be entitled to the same fees as are allowed for like service in the district courts, and subpoenas may be issued by the county clerk for witnesses and served as from the district courts.History: L. 1905, ch. 519, § 5; February 18; R.S. 1923, § 12-508.