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KS Stat § 24-410 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-410 Who may vote at elections; definitions.

24-410. Who may vote at elections; definitions. Within five days after any drainage district shall have been incorporated, the county clerk shall ascertain the qualified electors of such district, and deliver a certified list of the same to one of the persons appointed as judges of the first election to be held in the district, and at such election only persons who are qualified electors shall be permitted to vote. Any person desirous of voting, whose name does not appear on such list, of qualified electors may proceed to the county clerk and such county clerk may administer oaths and affirm witnesses to determine the right of anyone to vote who may claim that he has been erroneously omitted from such list, and if the county clerk issues a certificate entitling the voter thereof to vote, such certificate shall be accepted by the judges and clerks of election."Qualified elector" means any qualified elector of the district and any person eighteen (18) years of age or over owning land within the district, although not a resident therein, or owning tangible personal property within the district and having residence within such district."Owning land within the district" means the record owner of the fee in any real estate in the district or the fee in the surface rights of any real estate in the district, but the owners of an oil and gas lease, mineral rights or interest, easements or mortgages as such shall not be considered landowners, and school districts, cemetery associations and municipal corporations shall not be considered landowners.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 9; R.S. 1923, 24-410; L. 1935, ch. 169, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 124, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 125, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 24-412 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-412 Elections of directors, when; term of office.

24-412. Elections of directors, when; term of office. (a) An election to choose three directors in each district shall be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of 2017, and an election shall be held each four years thereafter, on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, to choose directors. Any director elected in any district in 2015 shall hold such office until such successor is elected and qualified.(b) On and after January 1, 2012, the board of directors of drainage district No. 2 of Finney county, Kansas, shall be elected as provided in K.S.A. 24-139a, and amendments thereto.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 11; L. 1913, ch. 184, § 2; R.S. 1923, 24-412; L. 1979, ch. 103, § 2; L. 1980, ch. 107, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 162, § 2; L. 2011, ch. 112, § 16; L. 2015, ch. 88, § 24; July 1.
KS Stat § 24-412a (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-412a Directors' names and district description to secretary of state.

24-412a. Directors' names and district description to secretary of state. Within 30 days following the election held pursuant to K.S.A. 24-412, as amended, the county election officer of the county where the drainage district is located shall transmit to the secretary of state on forms provided by the secretary of state, the names of the newly elected directors for each drainage district and a geographical description of each such district.History: L. 1981, ch. 162, § 4; July 1.
KS Stat § 24-413 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-413 Vacancy in office of director.

24-413. Vacancy in office of director. That should a vacancy occur at any time in the office of a director of any drainage district, the remaining directors shall appoint from the qualified residents in said district a person to hold the office of director until the next election.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 12; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-413.
KS Stat § 24-414 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-414 Manner of nomination and election of directors; filing fee; election boards; notice of election; who entitled to vote; election expenses.

24-414. Manner of nomination and election of directors; filing fee; election boards; notice of election; who entitled to vote; election expenses. (a) Elections to choose directors shall be conducted, the returns made and the results ascertained in the manner provided by law for general county elections except as otherwise provided by law, and any qualified person desiring to be a candidate for director shall file a candidate's declaration of intention in the manner provided in K.S.A. 25-21a03, and amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 25-205, and amendments thereto, accompanied by a filing fee of $20, with the county election officer of the county wherein the district is located, and the election officer in making up the ballots. The county election officer shall remit such filing fees to the county treasurer for deposit in the county general fund. The county election officer shall cause to be ascertained the names of all persons within the district who are also qualified electors, and shall furnish lists thereof to the judges of the election.(b) Notice of the time and place of holding each election, shall be published in a newspaper published in the county in accordance with procedures established in K.S.A. 25-105 and 25-209, and amendments thereto, and posted in a conspicuous place in the office of the board of directors at least five days before the holding thereof. At all elections and meetings held under the provisions of this act, only persons who are qualified electors shall be entitled to vote. In counties having a population of more than 150,000, at all elections and meetings held under the provisions of this act, only persons who are taxpayers and residents of the district who are qualified electors shall be entitled to vote. All election expenses shall be paid for out of the general fund of the drainage district. Election officials shall receive the same compensation as provided under the general election laws.(c) As used in this section, "taxpayer" means any person who owns any real property or tangible property within the district who pays taxes assessed on such property.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 13; L. 1913, ch. 184, § 3; R.S. 1923, 24-414; L. 1935, ch. 170, § 1; L. 1953, ch. 190, § 1; L. 1957, ch. 224, § 1; L. 1971, ch. 124, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 125, § 2; L. 1981, ch. 162, § 3; L. 2004, ch. 161, § 1; L. 2012, ch. 122, § 2; L. 2015, ch. 88, § 25; July 1.
KS Stat § 24-416 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-416 Meetings of board.

24-416. Meetings of board. (a) The board of directors shall meet at least once each year. At such meeting, the board shall adopt a resolution stating the time, date and place of all regular meetings of the board. The resolution also shall state that if the regular meeting date occurs on a Sunday or on a legal holiday or a holiday specified by the board, the meeting shall be held at the same time and place on the next day following the holiday. The resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the district is located. Meetings may be held on the call of the chairperson or at the request of a majority of the members of the board. Written notice of any special meeting shall be given to members of the board at least two days in advance of the meeting. The notice shall specify the time, place and purpose of the special meeting.(b) A majority of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and in the absence of the presiding officer or secretary a quorum at any meeting may select a presiding officer and a secretary pro tem. All meetings shall be open to the public and no meeting shall be held by the board or any of the members thereof to which the public is denied admission and the board shall not at any time go into executive session.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 15; L. 1913, ch. 184, § 5; R.S. 1923, 24-416; L. 1983, ch. 118, § 7; July 1.
KS Stat § 24-417 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-417 Engineer; plans and specifications.

24-417. Engineer; plans and specifications. That the board of directors may appoint or employ one or more engineers and prescribe their duties, and may cause all such surveys, plats, estimates, specifications and reports to be made as may be required to determine whether the construction of any levee is necessary to prevent the overflow of any natural watercourse or other work or improvement should be done within the district, or to determine and fix the height and location of any pier, bridge or other structure permitted to be placed in or across such watercourse, or to direct and supervise any work or improvement ordered to be made.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 16; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-417.
KS Stat § 24-418 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-418 Improvements authorized; estimate; construction; bonds; election.

24-418. Improvements authorized; estimate; construction; bonds; election. The board of directors may cause any or all natural watercourses within the district to be widened and deepened, walls, embankments and levees to be constructed along the banks, and obstructions and sand bars to be removed from the channel thereof, or such other improvements, including detention dams and reservoirs in areas adjacent to such watercourses, to be made thereto as may be deemed necessary to prevent the overflow of such watercourses or protect property from damage thereby. Before any such work shall be contracted for, plans and specifications for such work and an estimate of the cost thereof shall be made under oath by a competent engineer appointed for the purpose and embodied in a written report and filed with the secretary. If, upon consideration of such report and such other information as the board of directors may obtain, it shall be determined by the board of directors that the improvement of any natural watercourse by the removal of obstructions from the channel thereof or otherwise or the construction of any levee, levees, system of levees or detention dams and reservoirs will prevent the overflow of such natural watercourse, and thereby protect all of the lands within the drainage district from injury therefrom, and will be conducive to the public health, convenience or welfare, the board of directors shall have power to cause such levee, levees or such detention dams and reservoirs to be constructed and such other improvement and work to be done, and to issue bonds not exceeding in amount 20% on the taxable property of the district as shown by the assessment and tax rolls of the next preceding year to pay the cost thereof, such bonds to be paid by a general tax to be levied upon all of the taxable property within the drainage district issuing the same, except that: (1) Such improvement shall not be made until it has been authorized by a vote of the taxpayers of the district, at a special election to be called and held for that purpose at such time and place and in such manner as the board of directors may prescribe by an order entered upon its journal; and (2) the board of directors of the drainage district shall have no power to remove, lower or injure any dam constructed by any city in this state in or across any nonnavigable natural watercourse for the purpose of holding or storing water for the use of the city and its inhabitants, or to make any excavation or ditch to permit the flow of water around or by said dam, without first filing an application with the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture pursuant to K.S.A. 82a-301, and amendments thereto.History: R.S. 1923, 24-418; L. 1951, ch. 262, § 3; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 64; L. 1995, ch. 116, § 8; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 70; July 1.
KS Stat § 24-419 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-419 Board to determine work to be done; surveys; estimates; reports.

24-419. Board to determine work to be done; surveys; estimates; reports. That the board of directors, subject to the limitations contained in the next preceding section, shall have power and it shall be its duty to determine what work is necessary to be done, levees constructed or other improvements made to protect its district from overflow or damage and injury resulting therefrom, and whether the cost thereof shall be defrayed by issuing bonds to be paid by the levy of general taxes or by the levy of special taxes or assessments; but before any bonds shall be issued, special taxes levied or liability of any kind incurred by it, the board of directors shall cause accurate surveys of all work deemed necessary by it to be done, and accurate estimates and calculations to be made by some competent engineer, who shall make a written report thereof, showing the amount, character and kind of work to be done and the location and probable cost thereof, and return and file the same, with all plans and specifications, in the office of its secretary, which report shall at all times be open to public inspection.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 18; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-419.
KS Stat § 24-420 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-420 Action of board on engineer's report; special election; issuance of bonds.

24-420. Action of board on engineer's report; special election; issuance of bonds. That upon the filing of the engineer's report provided for in the next preceding section, the board of directors shall carefully examine and consider the same, and if they shall approve the same and determine that the proposed work or any part thereof ought to be done, and the cost defrayed by issuing bonds to be paid by general taxation, and the estimated cost thereof does not exceed the amount for which such bonds may be issued, then the board of directors shall proceed forthwith to call a special election as hereinafter provided to vote upon the question of issuing such bonds, and if such issue of bonds be authorized by the electors, then the board of directors shall cause such work to be done and issue bonds to pay the cost thereof.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 19; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-420.
KS Stat § 24-421 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-421 Change of channel of natural watercourse; issuance of bonds; levy of assessments.

24-421. Change of channel of natural watercourse; issuance of bonds; levy of assessments. That if the board of directors shall determine that it is necessary or advisable to alter, change or relocate the channel or any part of the channel of any natural watercourse within the district, to make or excavate a cutoff or a new channel therefor, it may cause such work to be done, and, to pay for the cost of such work, issue bonds to be paid by general taxation or by levying of special assessments upon the property benefited in the manner herein provided.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 20; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-421.
KS Stat § 24-423 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-423 Same; meeting of taxpayers, when; notice; vote.

24-423. Same; meeting of taxpayers, when; notice; vote. That if it shall appear by the assessors' report to be made as provided in the next preceding section that the amount to be charged against any tract of land for benefits will exceed ten percent upon its actual value as fixed by such report, then the board of directors shall forthwith call a meeting of all taxpayers whose property will be benefited by the proposed work, as shown by the assessors' report, and submit to such meeting the question as to whether such improvements shall be made or not. If a majority of such taxpayers voting at such meeting shall vote against the making of such improvement it shall not be made, but if a majority of such taxpayers voting at such meeting shall vote in favor of the making of such improvement, the board of directors may cause the same to be made and levy special taxes or assessments in accordance with the report of the assessors to pay the same.The board of directors shall cause its secretary to give notice of such meeting by one publication in some newspaper printed in the county, five days before the day fixed therefor. The president of the board of directors shall preside at such meeting and the secretary of the board of directors shall act as its secretary, and shall make, sign and file in his office a report of its proceedings. In the absence of either president or secretary, those present may choose a president or secretary pro tem. Only taxpayers shown by the report of the assessors shall be entitled to vote at such meetings.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 22; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-423.
KS Stat § 24-424 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-424 Hearing on assessments; notice; equalization; time for bringing actions.

24-424. Hearing on assessments; notice; equalization; time for bringing actions. That as soon as practicable after the report of the assessors has been filed, the secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice to be published once in some newspaper published in the county, stating in substance that a report of assessors has been filed charging real estate within the district with special assessments to be made therein, and that such report is on file in his office and open to inspection by all taxpayers in the district, and fixing a time, not less than five days from the date of the publication, when all persons aggrieved by such report may be heard to contest the justness of the same. It shall not be necessary in such notice to describe the land assessed nor state the names of the persons against whose property any assessment is made, but notice being given that such assessors' report is on file, all taxpayers must take notice of its contents. At the time fixed in such notice, the board of directors shall convene and hear the complaints of all persons interested, and shall have power to review, revise, alter, correct and amend the report of the assessors to any extent necessary to equalize and make such assessments just, equitable and impartial, and to correct all errors, wrong and injustice that may have been done to any person complaining of said report.After hearing all persons complaining, the board of directors shall confirm the report of the assessors as returned by them, or amend the same as it may deem just and equitable, and confirm the same as so amended, and thereupon the amounts charged against each tract of land shall become a special assessment and constitute a lien thereon. The decisions of the board of directors correcting, altering or amending and confirming the report of the assessors shall be entered of record and shall be final and conclusive; and as soon as it shall have been properly determined that any work to be paid for by special assessments is to be done, such special assessments shall by the secretary of the board be certified to the county clerk and entered upon the tax rolls, and collected as other taxes under existing laws; and no suit nor action of any kind shall be maintained in any court to set aside or in any way contest or enjoin the levy of any special assessment so charged or levied to pay the cost of any improvement by any drainage district after the expiration of thirty days from the time the board of directors shall make its decision so confirming the report of the assessors.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 23; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-424.
KS Stat § 24-425 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-425 Election upon bond issue; notice; canvass of returns.

24-425. Election upon bond issue; notice; canvass of returns. That whenever the board of directors deems it necessary to issue bonds to be paid by general taxation, which issue requires the sanction of the taxpayers, it shall make an entry on its journal so declaring and an order calling an election for that purpose; such order shall specify the amount of bonds necessary to be issued, the rate of interest the same shall bear, the time when payable and the purpose for which the proceeds are to be expended, the time and place where such election is to be held, and shall appoint judges and clerks to conduct the same.A proclamation calling such election shall be published at least ten days before the day fixed for holding the same, in some newspaper published in the county; such proclamation shall prescribe the form of the ballot, state the time and place when and where the election will be held, and shall contain a copy of the order of the board of directors calling the same; and at the time appointed the election shall be conducted, the returns made and the results ascertained in the same manner as provided by law for general county elections, except that the returns shall be made to and canvassed by the board of directors of the district, and except as herein otherwise provided. The board of directors shall meet and canvass the returns of all such elections and declare the result, and if a majority of those voting at the election authorize the issuing of the bonds, the board of directors shall have power to issue the same and cause the work for which they were authorized to be done.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 24; Feb. 25; R.S. 1923, 24-425.
KS Stat § 24-426 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 24 - Drainage And Levees|Article 4 - Drainage Districts Within Counties Or Cities|24-426 Manner of letting contracts; bond of contractor; tools and machinery.

24-426. Manner of letting contracts; bond of contractor; tools and machinery. That the board of directors shall not make any contract for any work to be done under the provisions of this act, the payment for which is to be made by the issuing of bonds or the levying of special assessments, except as herein otherwise provided, without first having publicly advertised for bids, and all such contracts shall be let only to the lowest and best bidder; but the board shall have the right to reject all bids if the same shall be deemed too high. Every contractor shall be required to give a bond to the board of directors in a sum sufficient to secure the proper execution of his contract and conditioned to pay all damages which shall result to the landholders of the district from failure to perform their contracts or by reason of negligence in the performance of the same. All work by contractors shall be under supervision of the board of directors or an engineer appointed by it.All bids shall be submitted and opened at one public meeting of the directory: Provided, however, That in the removal of solid obstructions or otherwise clearing the channel of any navigable stream, if the board of directors and its engineer shall deem it impracticable to let contracts therefor, or any part thereof, such work may be done in such manner as the board may deem for the best interests of the district, and may, when necessary, purchase or rent tools and machinery for such purpose.History: L. 1905, ch. 215, § 27; L. 1911, ch. 174, § 1; April 3; R.S. 1923, 24-426.