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KS Stat § 12-2706 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2706 Sale of water; rates; use of reimbursements; assessments; tax levies.

12-2706. Sale of water; rates; use of reimbursements; assessments; tax levies. Water from the common water supply shall be sold to the several contracting municipalities and corporations. The water shall be sold in bulk. Rates shall be fixed in such amounts that revenue therefrom shall be at least sufficient to pay all estimated annual costs of operation and maintenance and debt service on all bonds issued by the contracting municipalities for the purpose of a common water supply. Reimbursements received by municipalities for debt service on general obligation bonds issued under this act shall be credited to the bond and interest fund of such municipality and reimbursements received for debt service on revenue bonds issued under this act shall be credited to a special fund of such municipality to be used to pay the principal of and interest on the revenue bonds. Reimbursements received by municipalities for funds contributed from moneys on hand or available which are not derived from the issuance of bonds shall be credited to the funds of the municipality from which such contributions were made.In the event that a municipality shall contribute funds derived from bond issues and also from moneys on hand or available, such reimbursements shall be credited to the bond and interest fund or such special fund to retire revenue bonds, as the case may be, until said bonds shall have been retired and thereafter such reimbursements shall be credited to the funds from which the moneys on hand or available were contributed. In the event that such revenues in any year are insufficient, the excess of cost over revenues shall be assessed against and apportioned among the participating municipalities and corporations as the contract shall provide, and shall be paid by each such municipality from moneys on hand or available for such purpose or by levying a tax, at the first tax levying period after such apportionment is made, on all the taxable tangible property in such municipality sufficient to pay the cost to said municipality. Such tax levy shall be in addition to all other tax levies authorized or limited by law and shall not be subject to any aggregate tax levy limitation prescribed by article 19 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 6; April 14.
KS Stat § 12-2707 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2707 Municipal water supply system; resolution; plans, specifications and estimate; approval by secretary of health and environment; cost limited.

12-2707. Municipal water supply system; resolution; plans, specifications and estimate; approval by secretary of health and environment; cost limited. If the governing body of a municipality determines it advisable and necessary to provide a water supply system or to improve the municipality's water supply system by contracting with other municipalities and corporations as provided in this act the governing body shall so declare by resolution. The participating municipalities and corporations forthwith shall have prepared plans and specifications and a detailed estimate of the cost of such improvements and shall file a copy of the plans, specifications and estimate with the clerk of each participating municipality and with the secretary of each participating corporation, if any. Such plans, specifications and estimate shall be presented to the secretary of health and environment for approval. If approved by the secretary, the plans, specifications and estimate shall be returned to the clerk of each participating municipality, showing such approval. No bonds to pay the cost for any improvement provided for in this act shall be issued by the governing body of any municipality until the plans, specifications and estimate have been approved by the secretary of health and environment. The total cost of any improvement provided for in this act shall in no case exceed the total cost of the approved estimate.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 7; L. 1995, ch. 116, § 6; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-2710 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2710 Water supply in certain cities and townships; eminent domain.

12-2710. Water supply in certain cities and townships; eminent domain. The construction, acquisition, operation and maintenance of a common supply of water and a waterworks system, under the provisions of this act is hereby declared to be for a public use, and any municipality which has entered into a contract to provide for a common supply of water under the provisions of this act is hereby empowered to institute, either in its own name or jointly in the name of all the participating municipalities as plaintiff, a proceeding for the condemnation of any lands, either within or without the boundaries of such municipality or municipalities, which it or they may deem necessary for the construction, acquisition, operation and maintenance of a common supply of water or for a waterworks system. Such proceeding shall be conducted according to the provisions of K.S.A. 26-501 to 26-516, inclusive.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 10; L. 1963, ch. 234, § 26; January 1, 1964.
KS Stat § 12-2711 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2711 Grants of rights-of-way by certain state and local agencies.

12-2711. Grants of rights-of-way by certain state and local agencies. The secretary of transportation, the board of county commissioners of any county, the governing body of any city, and the governing body of any township, may grant an easement in, respectively, any state highway, county road, city street, or township road right-of-way to municipalities or corporations, either individually or jointly, which have contracted under the provisions of this act to provide a common supply of water, for the purpose of laying mains, pipes, conduits or aqueducts or locating other works deemed necessary by such participating municipalities and corporations in order to provide for a common supply of water.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 11; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 62; August 15.
KS Stat § 12-2712 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2712 Validation of certain contracts and bond issues; bonds exempted from debt limitations.

12-2712. Validation of certain contracts and bond issues; bonds exempted from debt limitations. If any municipality has, prior to the effective date of this act, with or without authority of law, entered into a contract or contracts to provide for a common supply of water, water distribution system or waterworks system and such contract or contracts substantially conform to contracts authorized to be made by such municipality under the provisions of this act, such contract or contracts previously entered into and all proceedings in connection therewith, including any bonds issued, are hereby validated and confirmed; and the provisions of this act shall hereafter be applicable to any common supply of water, water distribution system and waterworks system heretofore acquired under any such contracts heretofore made. No statute limiting the amount of bonded indebtedness of a municipality shall apply to any such bonds heretofore issued by a municipality for such purposes and such bonds shall not be considered in determining the total bonded indebtedness of such municipality for the purpose of applying any statute limiting the bonded indebtedness of such municipality.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 12; April 14.
KS Stat § 12-2713 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2713 Jurisdiction of certain state agencies saved.

12-2713. Jurisdiction of certain state agencies saved. Nothing contained in this act shall be held to alter or abridge the powers and duties of the secretary of health and environment or of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture over water supply matters.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 13; L. 1975, ch. 462, § 2; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 64; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-2714 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2714 Municipalities and corporations not deemed common carriers and not subject to utility regulation.

12-2714. Municipalities and corporations not deemed common carriers and not subject to utility regulation. Any municipality or corporation entering into an agreement under the authority of this act or validated by this act shall not be deemed to be a common carrier with respect to the water transportation facilities established thereunder and shall not be deemed subject to any utility regulation by reason of its participation in so providing facilities for a water supply, water distribution system, or waterworks system.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 14; April 14.
KS Stat § 12-2715 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2715 Authority and powers conferred by act; act supplemental; invalidity of part.

12-2715. Authority and powers conferred by act; act supplemental; invalidity of part. This act constitutes full and complete authority for the purposes set out therein, and no procedure or proceedings other than those required by this act shall be necessary for the performance of the provisions hereof. The powers conferred by this act shall be in addition and supplemental to and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by this act shall not affect, the powers conferred by any other law; and the limitations imposed by any other law, unless in this act specifically so provided, shall not affect the powers conferred by this act. The provisions of this act are severable, and if any provisions of this act be for any reason held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act; and the legislature hereby declares, and it shall be conclusively presumed, that the legislature would have passed this act and each provision thereof irrespective of the fact that one or more of its provisions shall be declared invalid.History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 15; April 14.
KS Stat § 12-2716 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2716 Cities owning waterworks may contract for water supply.

12-2716. Cities owning waterworks may contract for water supply. All cities of the state owning their own waterworks are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the United States of America (or an agency or instrumentality thereof) for the furnishing to such contracting city a municipal water supply from storage and distribution facilities constructed and owned by the United States of America pursuant to the acts of congress relating to the reclamation and irrigation of lands and related subjects.History: L. 1957, ch. 239, § 1; March 18.
KS Stat § 12-2717 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2717 Same; reimbursement agreement.

12-2717. Same; reimbursement agreement. Such contracting city may thereby obligate itself to reimburse the United States of America such portion of the cost of such storage and distribution facilities including interest thereon, as may be determined by such city and the United States of America to be allocable to the municipal water supply furnished. Such contract for reimbursement may extend over such period of years as is permissible under applicable federal laws and regulations and as shall be agreed to by the governing body of such city.History: L. 1957, ch. 239, § 2; March 18.
KS Stat § 12-2718 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2718 Cities under 200,000; agreements with federal or state agencies for municipal water supply and recreational areas.

12-2718. Cities under 200,000; agreements with federal or state agencies for municipal water supply and recreational areas. Any city having a population of less than two hundred thousand (200,000) is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the United States of America or an agency or instrumentality thereof, or with the state of Kansas or any instrumentality or political subdivision of the state, for the furnishing of, or the construction and equipping of, a municipal water supply or a recreational area and facilities, or both water supply and recreational area and facilities, for such contracting city from water storage and distribution facilities constructed by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or with the state of Kansas or any instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, whether said water storage be on land owned or flowage easement or other easement owned by said municipality, the United States of America or the state of Kansas or any political subdivision thereof, and said contract may be made whether said water supply and recreational area is within or outside the corporate limits of the contracting city, and whether or not said water supply is to be connected with said city's water distribution system by pipeline or other conduit.History: L. 1959, ch. 86, § 1; June 30.
KS Stat § 12-2719 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2719 Same; reimbursement by city, limitations; tax levies; bonds.

12-2719. Same; reimbursement by city, limitations; tax levies; bonds. The governing body of such contracting city, pursuant to authorizing ordinances as hereinafter provided, is hereby authorized to obligate itself to reimburse the United States of America or any instrumentality or political subdivision of the state government, such portion of the cost of such storage and distribution facilities, not exceeding fifteen percent (15%) of the assessed valuation of the tangible property within the corporate limits of the contracting city, and interest thereon not exceeding the maximum rate of interest prescribed by K.S.A. 10-1009, as may be determined by such city and the United States of America, or any instrumentality or political subdivision of the state government, to be allocable to the municipal water supply and distribution facilities and recreational area and facilities furnished or constructed by the United States of America, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or with the state of Kansas or any instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, and such contract for reimbursement may provide for payment of costs allocable to the city at the time of construction or may extend over such period of years as is permissible under applicable laws and regulations for a period of not exceeding fifty (50) years, or may extend over any shorter period as may be agreed to by the governing body of such city.For the purpose of financing such reimbursement, such contracting city is hereby authorized to levy an annual tax of not to exceed two (2) mills on all the taxable tangible property of such city during the period of said reimbursement contract. Such levy shall be in addition to all other tax levies authorized by law, and shall not be subject to nor within the aggregate tax levy limits prescribed by article 19 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. The governing body of the city may also issue general obligation bonds of the city, subject to the limitations prescribed in this act, for the purposes herein specified, and all such bonds shall be issued, registered, sold, delivered and retired in accordance with the applicable provisions of the general bond law. Contractual obligations of the contracting city shall not be subject to nor within any bonded debt or other debt or obligation limitation prescribed by the laws of the state of Kansas, and shall not be considered or included in applying any other law limiting bonded indebtedness or limiting other obligations of such cities.History: L. 1959, ch. 86, § 2; L. 1970, ch. 64, § 21; March 21.
KS Stat § 12-2720 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2720 Same; adoption of ordinance; contents; publication; protest petition; election; effective, when.

12-2720. Same; adoption of ordinance; contents; publication; protest petition; election; effective, when. Before any such contract or contracts shall be made by the governing body of such contracting city, or bonds issued, taxes levied or improvements made, as provided in this act, the governing body of such contracting city shall enact an ordinance authorizing the acquisition of the necessary site and the necessary easements, authorizing the making of such improvements and authorizing the making of such contract or contracts. The ordinance shall specify the nature and extent of the improvement to be made and describe such contract or contracts, including the estimated expenditures of the city under such agreement. Such ordinance shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official city paper. If within thirty (30) days of its last publication a petition signed by not less than five percent (5%) of the legally qualified electors is filed with the city clerk, such ordinance shall not take effect until submitted to the electors of such city and approved at an election to be held within ninety (90) days of the filing of such petition. The governing body of the municipality shall have power to call such an election, and such an election shall be called, noticed, conducted, and canvassed in the manner provided by law for bond elections under the provisions of the general bond law, except, the ballots used when voting upon said ordinance or resolution, as the case may be, shall contain these words: "For the ordinance" and "against the ordinance," as the case may be (stating the nature of the proposed ordinance). If no sufficient protest is filed within such thirty (30) days, or if the ordinance is approved at an election hereunder, such ordinance shall become effective and the governing body of such city may proceed with its implementation.History: L. 1959, ch. 86, § 3; L. 1971, ch. 51, § 2; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-2721 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2721 Same; act additional to 12-2716, 12-2717.

12-2721. Same; act additional to 12-2716, 12-2717. This act shall be construed as an addition to and not amendatory of the provisions of K.S.A. 12-2716 and 12-2717.History: L. 1959, ch. 86, § 4; June 30.
KS Stat § 12-2722 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2722 Same; exemption of certain cities from reimbursement limitations of 12-2719.

12-2722. Same; exemption of certain cities from reimbursement limitations of 12-2719. Any city entering into an agreement with the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof pursuant to K.S.A. 12-2718 through 12-2721 and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto which, under the terms of such agreement, is required to transfer ownership of its existing water storage facility or facilities in exchange for storage rights producing at least the same firm yield of water as the facility or facilities transferred, shall not be subject to the fifteen percent (15%) maximum limitation on the amount it may reimburse the United States of America or its agency or instrumentality under K.S.A. 12-2719.History: L. 1971, ch. 51, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-2723 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 27 - Water Supply, Waterworks And Distribution Of Water|12-2723 Installation of separate water meter for individual dwelling units.

12-2723. Installation of separate water meter for individual dwelling units. (a) As used in this section:(1) "Dwelling unit" means a structure or part of a structure that is used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person who maintains a household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household.(2) "Water meter" means a device used for measuring and billing for water consumed.(b) No city or public water supply system shall prohibit the installation of a separate water meter for each dwelling unit within a building containing multiple dwelling units in lieu of installation of a master meter for the entire building.History: L. 2001, ch. 199, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-2801 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 28 - Public Transportation|12-2801 Name and citation of act.

12-2801. Name and citation of act. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "metropolitan transit authority act."History: L. 1955, ch. 118, § 1; April 13.
KS Stat § 12-2802 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 28 - Public Transportation|12-2802 Definitions.

12-2802. Definitions. When used in this act:(a) "Transportation system" means all plants, equipment, property and rights useful for transportation of passengers for hire except taxicabs and except all transportation facilities extending beyond the boundaries of the metropolitan area and includes, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, street railways, subways and underground railroads, motor vehicles, trolley buses, motor buses and any combination thereof.(b) "Authority" means the transit authority created by this act.(c) "Board" means the transit board created by this act.(d) "City" means the city of Topeka, Kansas.(e) "Mayor" means the mayor of Topeka, Kansas.(f) "Motor vehicle" means every vehicle which is self-propelled.(g) "Metropolitan area" includes the area within the corporate limits of the city of Topeka, Kansas and includes the area having a radius within 90 miles from the corporate limits of such city.History: L. 1955, ch. 118, § 2; L. 1984, ch. 76, § 1; L. 2010, ch. 48, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 12-2803 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 28 - Public Transportation|12-2803 Actions by or against; seal.

12-2803. Actions by or against; seal. The authority may sue and be sued in its corporate name but execution shall not in any case issue against any property of the authority. It may adopt a common seal and change the same at pleasure.History: L. 1955, ch. 118, § 3; April 13.
KS Stat § 12-2804 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 12 - Cities And Municipalities|Article 28 - Public Transportation|12-2804 General powers.

12-2804. General powers. The authority shall have power to acquire, construct, own, operate and maintain for public service a transportation system in the metropolitan area as herein defined, and all the powers necessary or convenient to accomplish the purposes of this act, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the specific powers enumerated herein.History: L. 1955, ch. 118, § 4; April 13.