Watershed Districts | Midpage24-1201Title of act24-1201aDeclaration of public necessity for creation of districts; power; benefits24-1202Definitions24-1203Establishment of district by petition24-1203aEstablishment of district initiated by board of county commissioners24-1204Contents of petition; form24-1205Petition, circulation; inclusion of city or part thereof within proposed boundaries, identification; filing and determination of sufficiency of petition24-1206Sufficient petition transmitted to chief engineer; investigation, report and approval or disapproval; approval required, when; transmittal of approval to secretary of state and to chairperson of steering committee24-1207Meeting of steering committee; notice; election of board of directors; officers; election on organization of district; voting places and election procedures; certification of results to secretary of state; certificate of incorporation, issuance and recordation, when; actions attacking incorporation, limitations24-1208Payment of costs and expenses when petition or resolution is disapproved by engineer or defeated by voters; tax levy24-1209Corporate powers and duties24-1210Directors; number; terms; expenses24-1211Election of directors at annual meeting; report of financial condition, projects and activities; notice and conduct of elections; vacancies; changes in number of directors or date of annual meeting; notice; procedure24-1212Open meetings of directors; notice; quorum24-1213General plan, estimate of costs and information as to benefits; transmittal to chief engineer, when; open to public; report to directors24-1214Financing proposed projects; methods; resolution as to costs; public hearing; notice, contents; appearances; written statement required; transmittal of written statements to chief engineer; adoption, modification or rejection of general plan or method of financing; official general plan and official method of financing; resubmissions, when24-1214aDistricts adopting general plan prior to April 1, 1961; method of financing; procedure24-1215Approval of bond issue by qualified voters of district required; notice; election procedures; tax levies for financing costs; resolution, publication; protest petition; election24-1216Order and procedure as to specific projects; surveys, plans, specifications and estimates of costs; filing with secretary of board; open to inspection; transmittal of approved plans to chief engineer, when; review of general plan; revisions of plan; report by chief engineer, requirements24-1217Computation of special assessments; appraisement and apportionment; resolution; limitations; hearing of complaints; notice; alterations; resolution fixing assessments; notice to landowners; bonds and levies, when24-1218Right of entry upon lands in connection with work of district; damages24-1219No-fund warrants for initial expenses; annual tax levies for general fund expenses; increased levies, procedure; tax levies for no-fund warrants and bonds; structure maintenance fund24-1220Improvement bonds for works of improvement; terms; how payable; limitation on bonded indebtedness24-1221Act supplemental to other laws24-1222Chief engineer authorized to transfer territory from one district to another, when; petition24-1223Same; contents of petition24-1224Same; presentment of petition to chief engineer; notice and hearing24-1225Same; findings, decisions and declarations of chief engineer24-1226Same; liability for outstanding bonded indebtedness24-1227Extension of territory of district; petition, contents; approval of chief engineer24-1228Dissolution of district, when; resolution; petition; election; certificate of dissolution24-1229Dissolution of portion of district; petition, contents; powers and duties of chief engineer; notice and hearing; evidence; findings, filing; certificate of dissolution; recordation; removal of director upon dissolution, effect24-1230Notification of directors upon dissolution or partial dissolution of district; duties of secretary, treasurer and directors; effective date of dissolution; recordation of certificate of dissolution24-1231Disposition of funds of totally or partially disorganized district; duties of treasurer24-1232Minutes and records of totally dissolved district filed with county clerk24-1233Districts established prior to July 1, 1961; confirmation and validation; procedure24-1234Intermittent closing of roads within watershed district; county roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of county commissioners; publication and notice24-1235Same; township roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of township trustees; publication and notice24-1236Same; county bridge and township road, 24-1234 applies; approval by board of township trustees24-1237Same; costs of publication and notice; permit to require road markers24-1238Watershed district responsibilities transferred to city of Atchison24-1239White Clay watershed district dissolved24-1240White Clay watershed district property, contract and debt obligations transferred to city of Atchison