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KS Stat § 42-708 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-708 Meetings of directors; notice; quorum; assessor of district; employees; compensation; official bonds.

42-708. Meetings of directors; notice; quorum; assessor of district; employees; compensation; official bonds. (a) That all regular meetings of said board of directors shall be held on the first Monday of each month, and special meetings may be held at any time when all of the members are voluntarily present, or may be called by the president or any two members at any time; but notice in writing signed by persons calling any special meeting shall be served upon each director at least six hours before the time fixed for such special meeting, unless such notice be waived by voluntary appearance. If any director be present in the district, such notice must be delivered to him personally, but if absent shall be left at his usual place of residence. A majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and in the absence of the secretary a quorum at any meeting may select a secretary pro tem. Each meeting of the board shall be open to the public.(b) The board shall appoint an assessor of the district and such other employees as the board shall deem necessary for the efficient conduct of the district's business and shall fix their compensation. Officers and employees appointed by the board shall hold office and employment during the pleasure of the board. The assessor and other employees shall execute such official bonds as the board of directors may prescribe, which such bonds shall be approved by the board of directors and filed with secretary of said district, or with the county treasurer of the county wherein its registered office is located if the board of directors so directs. Premiums on all such bonds shall be paid by the district. The obligee named in any bond required under this act shall be the irrigation district, for use and benefit of said district and all others concerned.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 8; June 30.
KS Stat § 42-709 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-709 Provision for preliminary expenses.

42-709. Provision for preliminary expenses. When a board of directors of any district shall have been elected and qualified, such boards shall have the power and authority to issue and sell negotiable evidences of debt to be designated as irrigation district warrants, in such denominations as the board may fix for the purpose of financing the preliminary work of the board and its engineers, attorneys, agents and employees and such other incidental expenses as may be required for the purpose of formulating and investigating any plan of development in such district and otherwise carry out the purposes of this act and may pledge and agree that the ad valorem taxes first collected by the district shall be used in the payment of such warrants together with interest thereon, if not to exceed the maximum rate of interest prescribed by K.S.A. 10-1009 for which the board may annually levy and collect a general tax not exceeding two mills on the dollar on all taxable property within the district. Said warrants if issued, shall not be sold for less than par and accrued interest and the proceeds of the sale shall be deposited in the same manner authorized herein for proceeds from the sale of bonds and shall only be withdrawn for the limited purposes herein set up.Any money or surplus not required for the purposes set out in this section shall be used to redeem and buy such warrants and surplus upon resolution of board of directors, may be transferred to the general fund of said district. This section shall be construed as providing temporary and necessary means to finance preliminary expenses of such district, as an exception to the provisions of chapter 319 [*], Laws of Kansas, 1933, and after the completion of works and the receipts of revenue to be derived out of rentals and charges for water or other services, facilities or income of the district, such assessments shall no longer be made and the provisions of chapter 319 [*] of the Session Laws of Kansas, 1933, shall have full force and effect.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 9; L. 1970, ch. 64, § 75; March 21.* "Chapter 319," see ch. 10, art. 11.
KS Stat § 42-710 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-710 General plan of operation; approval by chief engineer; surveys, maps and estimates.

42-710. General plan of operation; approval by chief engineer; surveys, maps and estimates. (a) As soon as practicable after organization of the irrigation district, the board shall by resolution entered upon its records, formulate a general plan for its proposed operation as approved by the chief engineer, in which it shall state what constructed work or other property is proposed to be purchased and the purchase price therefor, and/or what construction work it is proposed to do and the estimated cost of such construction, and shall state whether funds to pay such purchase price or costs of construction shall be raised by issuing bonds or by creating a fund through the collection of water rentals and charges or by creating a fund by levying assessments against the land benefited or from money received under contract with United States or its departments or agencies, or whether it is contemplated to raise funds by the use of all or a combination of such methods of raising funds.(b) For the purpose of ascertaining the costs of any such construction work, the board shall cause surveys, examinations, and plans to be made as shall demonstrate the practicability of such plan and furnish the proper basis for an estimate of the cost of carrying out the same. All such surveys, examinations, maps, plans and estimates shall be made under the direction of a competent irrigation engineer and certified by him. The board shall then submit a copy of the same to the chief engineer for his approval. Upon receiving the approval thereof by the chief engineer, as submitted or with limitations or as modified, amended or supplemented, the board shall determine the amount of money required to be raised.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 10; June 30.
KS Stat § 42-712 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-712 Bonds of indebtedness.

42-712. Bonds of indebtedness. Any irrigation district created under the provisions of this act, after it has obtained from the chief engineer, his approval of its plans, maps, specifications, surveys and examinations for proposed irrigation works and projects, and after it has obtained from the chief engineer his approval of its application for an acquisition of beneficial use of water for irrigation purposes, and permit therefor, shall have the power and it is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said district or otherwise obtain funds as authorized in this act, for the purpose of building and constructing dams, reservoirs, canals, ditches, pumping plants, and electric power and gas lines for operation of same, and/or for the purchasing or condemning lands, water rights and easements, and other necessary property for the construction of the proposed system of irrigation within said district. Said bonds shall mature serially, the first installment of principal shall mature not less than two years, and the last installment not more than forty years from the date of said bonds. The amount of installment payments of principal may be such that the increase thereof from year to year shall approximately equal the decrease from year to year in the interest on the bonds remaining unpaid. Said bonds shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the board.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 12; June 30.
KS Stat § 42-713 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-713 Bond resolution; election; publication notice.

42-713. Bond resolution; election; publication notice. (a) The board of directors of any irrigation district, created under the provisions hereof, which has previously complied with the conditions precedent thereto may adopt a resolution stating: (1) The amount of bonds proposed to be issued; (2) the rate or rates they shall bear; (3) the years of maturity; (4) the purpose for which they are proposed to be issued; (5) the total amount of existing bonded indebtedness, if any; and (6) a statement directing submission of said resolution to approval of electors in said district and the date and polling places for said election. Such bond elections shall be conducted and the returns thereof made and canvassed in same manner as for regular election of members of the board of directors as provided in subsection (c) and (d) of section 42-706 except as otherwise provided in this act.(b) Upon adoption of such resolution by the board of directors providing for the issuance of bonds, the secretary of said board shall cause notice of said election to be given by posting notice thereof in at least three (3) conspicuous places in the district and by publishing said notice three times in a weekly newspaper published in the county where the registered office of said district is located. If no newspaper is published therein, publication in any newspaper of general circulation in the district shall be deemed sufficient. The date of the posting and the publication in the first issue of newspapers containing such notice shall be not less than twenty-one (21) days before the date of such election. Said notice shall contain a full copy of the resolution, and the question to be submitted at the election shall be whether said resolution shall be approved. The ballot for such election shall be written or printed and shall state the question in substantially the following form:Shall the resolution of __________ Irrigation District No. ______ providing for the issuance of its bonds in an amount not to exceed $______ for the purpose of __________, be approved?(With all blanks filled in and completed.)Yes __________ ☐No  __________ ☐History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 13; L. 1961, ch. 242, § 3; April 6.
KS Stat § 42-714 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-714 Issuance, sale and delivery of bonds.

42-714. Issuance, sale and delivery of bonds. If a majority of the ballots cast at such election are in favor of the proposal to issue bonds as stated in such resolution, the board of directors shall proceed to issue, sell and deliver such bonds as provided herein.(a) Every bond shall be payable to "bearer" or to the " registered owner" and shall bear interest at the rate specified in the accepted bid for the purchase of the bonds. Each bond shall specify the time and place of payment of the principal and interest and shall be numbered consecutively with the other bonds of the same issue, which shall begin with the number one and continue upward, or if directed by the board shall begin with any number and continue upward.(b) Such bonds shall be executed in the name of and for the district by the chairperson and secretary of the board. Any interest coupons may be executed by the lithographed or engraved facsimile signature of such officers. The validity of the bonds which are executed shall remain unimpaired by reasons of the fact that one or more of the subscribing or attesting officers have ceased to be such officer or officers, before delivery to the purchaser. Such bonds shall recite that they are, and shall be, payable in lawful money of the United States.(c) The secretary of the board of directors of the irrigation district shall register in a book provided for that purpose an accurate description of every bond issued, specifying its number, date, purpose, amount, rate of interest, when and where payable and description of any coupons attached. All bonds authorized under this act which have not been delivered to the purchaser within three years after their date shall be canceled. It shall be the duty of the secretary to destroy all canceled bonds, by burning them in the presence of other members of the board of directors and that minutes relating such action be entered in the journal.(d) Such bonds may be self-liquidating out of the revenue to be derived out of rentals and charges for water uses or other services, facilities or income of the district, or may be paid by means of assessments or by a combination of two or more of such methods.(e) The revenue derived from the rates charged by the district for the services performed and facilities furnished by it shall be pledged to secure the payment of such bonds and interest thereon, less a proper amount to be set aside by the board of directors, to pay the expenses of operation and maintenance of the district and its works, and to provide for an adequate depreciation fund. Rates shall be fixed in a reasonable amount sufficient to provide for such purposes.(f) All money received from sale of any bond issue shall be placed in a fund and applied solely to the payment of the costs of the works proposed or for the purpose or purposes for which the same were issued.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 14; L. 1983, ch. 49, § 82; May 12.
KS Stat § 42-715 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-715 Annual assessments; duties of assessor; map.

42-715. Annual assessments; duties of assessor; map. The assessor for the district shall as soon as practicable after the first Tuesday of March each year, examine each tract or subdivision of land in said irrigation district and determine the benefits which will accrue to each of such tracts or subdivisions by reason of the construction or acquisition of such works; and the amount so apportioned or distributed to each of said tracts or subdivisions as finally equalized or confirmed by the district court, as the case may be, shall be and remain the basis for fixing the annual assessments levied against such tracts or subdivisions in carrying out the purpose of this act.Such assessor shall make or cause to be made, a list of such apportionment or distribution, which shall contain a complete description of each tract or subdivision of lands in said district with the amount and rate per acre for such apportionment or distribution of cost, and the name of the owner or owners thereof; or he may prepare a map of convenient scale showing each of said tracts or subdivisions of land with the rate of apportionment or distribution of costs fixed thereon: Provided, That where all lands on any map or section of map are assessed at the same rate, a general statement to that effect shall be sufficient with acreage in each tract shown. Said list or map shall be made in duplicate and one copy shall be filed in the office of the chief engineer and one copy shall be filed in the office of the board of directors of said district, and shall be made available for public inspection. Any assessment of any property in the name of the wrong person shall in no way invalidate the assessment thereof.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 15; June 30.
KS Stat § 42-716 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-716 Water rentals or charges.

42-716. Water rentals or charges. The assessor shall also determine and list the amount payable for each tract obligated by contract, if any, to the United States or any department or agency of the United States, or to any person, corporation or other irrigation district, for the payment of water rentals or charges.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 16; June 30.
KS Stat § 42-717 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-717 Delivery of assessment roll; equalization of assessments.

42-717. Delivery of assessment roll; equalization of assessments. (a) On or before the fifteenth day of May, each year, the assessor must complete his assessment roll and deliver it to the secretary of the board of directors. The board shall thereupon fix a time and place when the board will meet to equalize assessments. The secretary shall give notice of such meeting in same manner as providing for posting and publishing notice of election for approval of resolution directing issuance of bonds.(b) Upon the day specified in the notice the board of directors shall meet as a board of equalization for the purposes of equalizing such assessments and shall continue in session from day to day, so long as may be necessary, but not to exceed ten days, exclusive of Sundays. The board shall hear and determine such objections to the apportionment of benefits and assessments as may come before it; and the board shall make such changes in the apportionment of benefits and assessments as shall appear to be just and equitable.The secretary shall be present during the session of the equalization board, and he shall note the changes made in the apportionment of benefits and assessments returned by the assessor and, in the names of persons assessed; and within ten days after the close of the session he shall have the assessments and benefits as finally equalized by the board, extended into columns and added.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 17; June 30.
KS Stat § 42-718 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-718 Certification of levies to county clerk.

42-718. Certification of levies to county clerk. The board of directors shall then levy an assessment against the lands in the district, sufficient to pay interest on outstanding indebtedness, and all other obligations due or to become due during the ensuing year. In determining the total of such assessment and levy the board shall take into consideration revenues derived from other sources than that obtained from the assessment and taxation of district lands. The secretary of the board shall compute and enter in separate columns of the assessment record the respective sums in dollars and cents required for each purpose and each general purpose shall be denominated a separate fund. If the board finds it necessary it may make an assessment levy (1) for expenses of organizing the district, (2) for operation, maintenance and repair of irrigation works, (3) for the payment of salaries of officers and employees and for other general expenses, which assessment shall be called the "general fund."The secretary shall compute, or cause to be computed, the sum assessed against each tract for each purpose and shall certify to the county clerk of the respective counties wherein said lands are located, the amount of such assessment for each purpose, or fund, levied upon each tract of land by said board. The county clerk shall enter the total amount assessed against each tract of land in the tax list of his county, and shall certify and deliver same to the county treasurer in manner provided for certifying and delivering other tax levies. Such assessments shall be collected by the county treasurer at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are collected in the county.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 18; June 30.
KS Stat § 42-719 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-719 Compensation of directors.

42-719. Compensation of directors. The members of the board of directors shall receive for their services as directors an amount determined and fixed by said board not to exceed thirty-five dollars ($35) per day and actual traveling expenses.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 19; L. 1949, ch. 284, § 3; L. 1976, ch. 224, § 1; Jan. 1, 1977.
KS Stat § 42-720 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 42 - Irrigation|Article 7 - Districts|42-720 Bids for construction work; publication notice; contractor's bond.

42-720. Bids for construction work; publication notice; contractor's bond. (a) After adopting a plan for the proposed canal or canals, ditches, laterals, storage reservoirs, pumping plants and works and after having obtained the approval of same from the chief engineer, and a permit for acquisition of waters for beneficial use, the board of directors shall give notice, by publication thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in said district, at least once not less than fifteen days before bids are received, calling for bids for the construction of the work or any portion thereof, particularly describing the works or portions so advertised. The notice shall also set forth that plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the board, or other designated place within said district; that the board will receive sealed proposals therefor; that the contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder, stating the time and place of opening of bids.(b) All bids shall be opened in public at the time and place specified and as soon as convenient thereafter the board shall let such work either in whole or in part to the lowest responsible bidder, or it may reject any and all bids and readvertise for new bids or proposals, or may proceed to construct the works under their own superintendence with the labor of the residents of the district. All contracts for the purchase of materials shall be awarded to lowest responsible bidder. The person or persons to whom a contract is awarded, shall enter into a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board payable to such district for its use, to an amount equal to twenty-five percent of the contracted price for the faithful performance of the contract, not however, to exceed a maximum of fifty thousand dollars. The work and construction shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer, and be approved by the board. The provisions of this section shall not apply in case of any contract between the district and the United States or with any department, bureau or agency thereof.History: L. 1941, ch. 262, § 20; June 30.