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KS Stat § 80-910 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-910 Parks or cemeteries; petition under 80-901 to 80-904; order for election.

80-910. Parks or cemeteries; petition under 80-901 to 80-904; order for election. The county commissioners, for such township, upon the presentation of the foregoing petition and such other conditions as may be deemed advisable, to the chairman of the board, shall convene and make an order, which order shall embrace the terms and conditions set forth in the petition, and shall fix the time for holding such election, which shall be within sixty days from the day on which the commissioners shall be convened.History: L. 1887, ch. 235, § 5; March 15; R.S. 1923, 80-910.
KS Stat § 80-911 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-911 Same; bonds; issuance.

80-911. Same; bonds; issuance. If a majority of the qualified electors voting at such election vote for such purchase and use, and issue of bonds, the board of county commissioners, for and in behalf of such township, shall issue such bonds as may be required by such proposition in the name of such township. When issued, such bonds shall be signed by the chairperson of the board of county commissioners, and attested by the county clerk, under the seal of such county.History: L. 1887, ch. 235, § 7; R.S. 1923, 80-911; L. 1983, ch. 49, § 99; May 12.
KS Stat § 80-912 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-912 Same; cemetery lots; record and charges.

80-912. Same; cemetery lots; record and charges. Any citizen of any township owning and maintaining a cemetery under the provisions of this act, upon the payment of one dollar to the trustee of such township, which money shall be credited to the contingent fund, shall have the right and privilege to one lot in such cemetery for burial purposes; and the lots of such cemetery shall be laid off in uniform size, not less than seven by fourteen feet, with alleys and streets, as the board of such township shall direct. The clerk of such township shall keep an exact record of persons buried and location of graves in such cemeteries: Provided, That in case of any cemetery acquired by the township since January 1, 1915, the township board may charge any citizen residing in the township such sum of money as it deems a reasonable value for a lot or lots in such cemetery, and may charge persons not resident in the township an amount not to exceed 50 percentum additional to such reasonable value, for the upkeep of the cemetery.History: L. 1887, ch. 235, § 8; L. 1915, ch. 100, § 1; May 22; R.S. 1923, 80-912.
KS Stat § 80-913 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-913 Same; use of funds; annual report; unlawful acts.

80-913. Same; use of funds; annual report; unlawful acts. The town board of such township shall have full authority and power to use the funds provided by the issue of bonds as hereinbefore conditioned, in purchasing, maintaining and improving the parks and cemeteries owned in such township by virtue of this act: Provided, The trustee of such township shall make an annual report on the condition of such park and cemetery; also a full statement of the expenditures and receipts made and received thereon: Provided further, That gambling, horse-racing and selling of intoxicating liquors are forever forbidden and prohibited on such grounds, or adjacent thereto.History: L. 1887, ch. 235, § 9; March 15; R.S. 1923, 80-913.
KS Stat § 80-914 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-914 Purchase of unsold school lands for cemetery or burial ground.

80-914. Purchase of unsold school lands for cemetery or burial ground. Any municipal township of this state is hereby authorized and shall be entitled to purchase and acquire for a cemetery or burial ground any quantity of land not exceeding five acres in any one tract or lot of any unsold school lands situated in this state, and shall acquire title to the same according to the method and procedure prescribed for securing sites for schoolhouses on school lands in chapter 122 [*] of the Session Laws of 1876: Provided, That such tract or lot shall be situate on one of the boundary lines of the section or any quarter section thereof.History: L. 1901, ch. 397, § 1; May 1; R.S. 1923, 80-914.* "Chapter 122" apparently was superseded by L. 1909, ch. 218, §8 (72-2112 included by reference).
KS Stat § 80-915 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-915 Acquisition of cemetery association or corporation property; maintenance.

80-915. Acquisition of cemetery association or corporation property; maintenance. Whenever any cemetery association or corporation maintaining or owning a cemetery shall desire to convey such cemetery to the municipal township in which the cemetery is located for the purpose of making the cemetery a public burying ground, it shall be lawful for the township board to receive and take over the management and control of such cemetery upon such terms as may be agreed upon. When such cemetery becomes the property of the township it shall be the duty of the township to maintain the same at an annual expense of not less than $25 nor more than $100. Nothing in this act shall be construed to restrict or modify other public cemetery acts. Except as provided in K.S.A. 80-941 and 80-942, and amendments thereto, no township board shall agree to take over any such cemetery where the township already has and maintains a public cemetery.History: L. 1911, ch. 138, § 1; R.S. 1923, 80-915; L. 1992, ch. 42, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 74, § 2; Apr. 17.
KS Stat § 80-916 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-916 Care of abandoned cemeteries.

80-916. Care of abandoned cemeteries. From and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the township board of any township within the state of Kansas in which there is situated an abandoned cemetery to provide for the care of such cemetery and to provide for the proper and seasonable cutting of all weeds and grass therein at least twice each year; and for such purposes such township board shall appropriate and expend not more than $500 per year for each such cemetery.History: L. 1917, ch. 84, § 1; L. 1919, ch. 105, § 1; R.S. 1923, 80-916; L. 1982, ch. 72, § 14; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-917 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-917 Cemetery chapel.

80-917. Cemetery chapel. Any township in the state of Kansas owning or operating as trustees a cemetery is authorized and empowered to procure, acquire and control a building to be used as a chapel in connection with such cemetery in which to hold burial or funeral services and such other devotional or religious exercises as the board may, from time to time, allow: Provided, That the title to such chapel shall be vested in the township maintaining such cemetery.History: L. 1921, ch. 91, § 1; Feb. 27; R.S. 1923, 80-917.
KS Stat § 80-918 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-918 Same; petition.

80-918. Same; petition. The township board shall not acquire, secure nor operate a chapel as provided in K.S.A. 80-917 except upon the application so to do through a petition presented to it signed by at least twenty-five percent of the resident taxpayers of the township.History: L. 1921, ch. 91, § 2; Feb. 27; R.S. 1923, 80-918.
KS Stat § 80-919 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-919 Same; election; site; erection; tax levy, limitation.

80-919. Same; election; site; erection; tax levy, limitation. Upon the receipt of such petition the township board shall call an election at which the question of the acquiring of a site for and the building of a chapel as provided hereinbefore shall be submitted to the electors of the township, at which election the proposition submitted shall be "Shall the township build and maintain a chapel in connection with the township cemetery at an initial cost of __________ dollars?" If the majority of the votes cast at said election shall favor such proposition to construct and operate a chapel the township board shall proceed to procure a site for such chapel adjacent to the cemetery not exceeding one acre in area and to build and maintain a suitable building for a chapel thereon. The mode of acquiring the site shall be by purchase, donation and contribution, condemnation, or gift. The board of township commissioners is authorized and empowered to levy a tax sufficient to pay for the site and erect the building thereon: Provided, That in no event shall the combined cost of the site and the building exceed the amount of money to be raised by an annual levy of two mills on every dollar of taxable property in the township for a period of five (5) years.History: L. 1921, ch. 91, § 3; Feb. 27; R.S. 1923, 80-919.
KS Stat § 80-923 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-923 Board of trustees of joint township parks or cemeteries; tax levies.

80-923. Board of trustees of joint township parks or cemeteries; tax levies. Where two or more townships in the state of Kansas combine, and purchase or acquire or act as trustee for grounds for a park or parks, or cemetery or cemeteries, the township board of each of such combined townships shall constitute a board of trustees, having full power and control of said parks and cemeteries and shall annually determine the tax to be levied by every such township to comply with the provisions and limitations of K.S.A. 80-907.History: L. 1937, ch. 385, § 1; March 29.
KS Stat § 80-932 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-932 Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries.

80-932. Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries. The township board of any township is hereby authorized and empowered to levy an annual tax on all taxable tangible property in such townships, including such property of cities of the third class, for the purpose of providing funds to be used for the care and maintenance of cemeteries in such townships for which no provision is made by law for the levying of taxes for such care and maintenance.History: L. 1947, ch. 473, § 1; L. 1970, ch. 385, § 6; L. 1999, ch. 154, § 56; May 27.
KS Stat § 80-933 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-933 Lease of lake or park; conditions; publication; protest petition.

80-933. Lease of lake or park; conditions; publication; protest petition. Whenever the title to any real property within the area of which there may be included a lake or park may be vested in a township, the township board is hereby authorized to lease such lake or park or any portion thereof for not less than two (2) years nor more than thirty-three (33) years to any 4-H club or livestock association, to any county fair association, to any nonprofit corporation, or to any other charitable or farm organization: Provided, That every such lease shall provide that the lessee shall at its own expense, construct and install all of the facilities and improvements to be occupied and used by it under such lease, upon such terms, conditions and control as the township board may require and subject to the condition that all such facilities and improvements so constructed by the lessee shall become and be the property of the township upon the expiration or cancellation of the term of such lease or upon abandonment or forfeiture thereof by the lessee prior to its expiration.Such lease shall be effective and binding upon the township, however, only after twenty (20) days following the final publication of such lease including all the terms thereof in some newspaper of general circulation in the township for three (3) consecutive weeks: Provided, That if within such twenty (20) days following the final publication of the lease there be filed with the township clerk a petition signed by twenty-five percent (25%) of the electors of such township as determined by the total vote for secretary of state in such township at the last preceding general election protesting the execution of such lease, then such lease shall be void and of no effect.History: L. 1949, ch. 504, § 1; L. 1961, ch. 464, § 1; April 6.
KS Stat § 80-934 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-934 Cemetery abandoned by private association; title vested in township.

80-934. Cemetery abandoned by private association; title vested in township. Any private township cemetery association organized under the laws of Kansas as a nonprofit corporation which has failed to operate and maintain its cemetery for a period of more than ten (10) years and which has been maintained by the township under the provisions of K.S.A. 80-916 for a period of at least five (5) years may be declared abandoned and extinct by order of the district court of the county in which the cemetery is located and the title to the cemetery property of such association vested in the township in the manner hereinafter provided.History: L. 1970, ch. 405, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-935 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-935 Same; petition to district court; order transferring title.

80-935. Same; petition to district court; order transferring title. Any member of the township board or any resident of a township in which the cemetery was organized and in which the cemetery is located may petition the district court of the county setting forth facts authorizing an order of abandonment or extinction and disposition of property. Upon presentation of such a petition to the court the court may proceed in a summary manner after such notice as the court may prescribe to inquire into the merits of such application; and if upon examination by the court it shall satisfactorily appear that the making of the order of the disposition of the property applied for is necessary or proper, such court shall make a final order declaring such cemetery association to be abandoned and extinct and transferring the cemetery property and title and possession thereof to the township in which the cemetery of the association was located; it being the intent and purpose of this act to preserve the cemetery property formerly owned by the association for cemetery purposes.History: L. 1970, ch. 405, § 2; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-936 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-936 Same; care and maintenance by township.

80-936. Same; care and maintenance by township. After the order providing for the transfer and vesting of the cemetery property in the township has become final, the township board shall thereafter care for and maintain the cemetery formerly the property of the cemetery association in the same manner as though such township cemetery were organized pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 80-901 et seq.History: L. 1970, ch. 405, § 3; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-937 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-937 Township lakes in certain townships; issuance of bonds for restoration; election.

80-937. Township lakes in certain townships; issuance of bonds for restoration; election. Any municipal township having an assessed tangible valuation of more than three million dollars ($3,000,000) and less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) which has heretofore acquired a township lake and is presently operating such lake as a municipal function is hereby authorized to issue bonds of the township in the manner provided by law and in an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), for the purpose of providing revenue for restoration of such lake, including the dredging thereof and making necessary improvements in connection therewith.Before any such bonds shall be issued, the question of issuing the same shall first be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the township at a general election or at a special election called for the purpose of submitting the question; and no bonds shall be issued until a majority of the qualified electors of the township voting on the question shall have declared by their votes in favor of issuing said bonds. Such election may be called on motion of the township officers and shall be called if a petition signed by twenty-five percent (25%) of the electors of the township as shown by the vote cast for governor at the last preceding election is filed with the township clerk requesting such election.If the bonds are authorized at such election, by a majority vote of qualified electors voting thereon, such bonds shall be issued, sold, delivered and retired in accordance with article 1 of chapter 10 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, except that such bonds shall mature within a maximum period of ten (10) years from date of issue; and none of the debt limitations provided by law shall apply to bonds issued hereunder.History: L. 1971, ch. 325, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-938 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-938 Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries; election upon petition.

80-938. Tax levy for care and maintenance of certain cemeteries; election upon petition. In any county having a population of not less than sixteen thousand (16,000) and not more than eighteen thousand (18,000) in which there is located a city of the first class and in which there is located a township cemetery district in which there are at least nine (9) cemeteries, the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to make an annual levy of not to exceed one (1) mill on all the taxable tangible property within said township cemetery district for the purpose of providing funds for the care and maintenance of cemeteries within such district. Such tax levy shall be in addition to all other tax levies authorized or limited by law and shall not be subject to or within any aggregate tax levy limit prescribed by law.No tax levy provided for or authorized by this section may be made if prior to the levy of such tax a petition in opposition to the levy, signed by not less than five percent (5%) of the qualified electors in such township cemetery district, is filed with the county election officer. If such petition is filed within the prescribed time, no such tax may be levied unless a majority of the qualified electors of the township cemetery district approve such levy at the next general election.History: L. 1975, ch. 132, § 4; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-939 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-939 Recreational facilities; election; tax levies.

80-939. Recreational facilities; election; tax levies. (a) Whenever the governing body of any township proposes to provide, establish and maintain recreational facilities and to levy an annual tax therefor, such proposition shall be submitted to the qualified electors of such township for approval at a regular or special election held for such purpose.(b) If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition are in favor thereof, the governing body of such township shall have the power to levy an annual tax upon all the taxable tangible property within such township for the purpose of establishing, providing and maintaining recreational facilities. Such tax levy shall be at a rate which, when multiplied by the total assessed tangible valuation of the township, will not result in producing more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) in any one year, except that in no event shall such levy exceed two (2) mills.History: L. 1975, ch. 507, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-940 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-940 Disorganization of cemetery districts in certain townships; property transferred to township.

80-940. Disorganization of cemetery districts in certain townships; property transferred to township. If the board of township trustees of any township or townships located in a county having a population of more than forty-three thousand (43,000) and less than forty-eight thousand (48,000) agrees thereto, any cemetery district located in such township or townships may, with the approval of the board of directors thereof, be disorganized. Whenever the board of directors shall approve the disorganization of any such cemetery district, all books, records, papers, moneys and title to all property owned by such cemetery district shall vest in the township, and shall be maintained thereby.History: L. 1978, ch. 78, § 1; July 1.
KS Stat § 80-941 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 80 - Townships And Township Officers|Article 9 - Public Parks And Cemeteries|80-941 Conveyance of cemetery property to Attica township in Sedgwick county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund.

80-941. Conveyance of cemetery property to Attica township in Sedgwick county; transfer of books, records, papers and fund. (a) The township board of Attica township in Sedgwick county is hereby authorized to acquire from the Pleasant Ridge cemetery association, with the consent of such association, the following described cemetery property and any improvements thereon: Beginning at the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 29, township 27 south, range 2 west of the 6th P.M., Sedgwick county, Kansas, then running west 532 feet, then running south 487 feet, then running east 268.5 feet, then running south 8 feet 11 links, then running east 264 feet to the east line, then running north 495 feet 11 links to the point of beginning.(b) Upon the conveyance of the cemetery property under subsection (a), title to all such property shall vest in Attica township, and the permanent maintenance fund, if any, together with any investments then outstanding, and all books, records and papers of such cemetery shall be transferred to the treasurer of such township and shall become the property thereof. Upon the transfer of such property and funds, the township board shall care for and maintain such cemetery with any moneys of the cemetery corporation including the principal of and income from the permanent maintenance fund, if any; and, if such moneys are insufficient to properly maintain such cemetery, with funds of the township. The principal of and income from the permanent maintenance fund may be deposited in any appropriate fund of the township or may be invested in the manner provided for other township money, but shall be used exclusively for care and maintenance of such cemetery.History: L. 1992, ch. 42, § 2; July 1.