Drainage Districts Within Counties or Cities | MidpageDrainage Districts Within Counties or Cities
24-401Organization of drainage districts; duties of board of county commissioners24-402Lands within cities may be included in drainage district24-403Petition for organization of drainage district; definitions24-403aInclusion of land located in other benefit districts24-404Time and notice of hearing24-405Hearing of petition; corporate name; perpetual succession24-406Record of organization; first election; description of lands24-407Powers of drainage districts24-408Powers of districts incorporated under law of 190524-408aSanitary sewers of district; bonds24-409Board of directors; members' qualifications and terms24-410Who may vote at elections; definitions24-412Elections of directors, when; term of office24-412aDirectors' names and district description to secretary of state24-413Vacancy in office of director24-414Manner of nomination and election of directors; filing fee; election boards; notice of election; who entitled to vote; election expenses24-415Organization of board; record of proceedings; treasurer, powers and duties; bond; county treasurer's duties24-416Meetings of the board; executive session authorized, when24-417Engineer; plans and specifications24-418Improvements authorized; estimate; construction; bonds; election24-419Board to determine work to be done; surveys; estimates; reports24-420Action of board on engineer's report; special election; issuance of bonds24-421Change of channel of natural watercourse; issuance of bonds; levy of assessments24-422Assessment of cost against landowners; appointment of assessors, qualifications24-423Same; meeting of taxpayers, when; notice; vote24-424Hearing on assessments; notice; equalization; time for bringing actions24-425Election upon bond issue; notice; canvass of returns24-426Manner of letting contracts; bond of contractor; tools and machinery24-428Bond elections; costs included24-429Prevention of overflow of streams24-430Installment assessments or bonds24-433Levy and collection of assessments to pay bonds24-434Construction and purposes of act; limitation of actions24-435Supplemental assessments to correct errors24-436Relevy of assessments; when24-437Order requiring railroad to elevate tracks; mandamus24-438Eminent domain proceedings24-448Contracts with federal agencies24-449Cooperation of districts; aid from persons or corporations; letting of contracts24-450Contract with railroad company24-450aCounties of 140,000; contract with railroad company; tax levy24-451Section K.S.A. 24-426 inapplicable to K.S.A. 24-448 through 24-45024-452Sewers through levees; floodgates and pumping apparatus; duty of cities; costs24-453Watercourses on boundary of district; jurisdiction; sale of abandoned channel24-454Lands in abandoned watercourse; sale; appraisement24-455Failure of director to perform duty; penalty24-456Penalty for unlawful acts24-457Liability for damages for injury24-458Incorporation of district where owners of three-fifths of land are nonresidents; petition24-459Directors; election; term; eligible voters24-460Same; application of act of 190524-461Same; application of act24-462Additional assessments where installment levies and bond proceeds insufficient; limitation24-463Enlargement of district; petition24-464Same; contents of petition24-465Same; notice of hearing24-466Same; hearing on petition24-467Same; eminent domain proceedings24-468Same; drainage outside district; agreement with landowner24-469Same; benefits to adjoining land; incorporation into district; proceedings24-470Harbor lines along navigable streams24-471Appropriation of land at harbor lines24-472How appropriation made; duties of governor24-473Penalty for interfering with possession of such property; removal from property24-474Action to ascertain ownership of and compensation for such land24-475Payment of judgment, cost and award; bonds; tax levy; reversion of land, when; damages24-476When railway company not to be deprived of easement in such land24-477Removal of personal property from land so appropriated; mandamus24-478Sections K.S.A. 24-470 through 24-480 supplemental to act of 190524-479Grant of easements in strip of land so appropriated; relinquishment of land24-480Concurrent remedies24-481Application for incorporation of drainage district under article 7; when24-482Notice of hearing on application; publication; continuance24-483Duties of county commissioners; style and powers of drainage district24-484Directors, qualifications; voters, qualifications24-485Laws governing district after incorporation24-486Authority and powers of drainage district; bond issue; with and without election24-487Validity of K.S.A. 24-481 through 24-487a24-487aConstruction of K.S.A. 24-481 through 24-48724-489Dike or levee improvement in certain districts24-490Same; acquisition of land24-491Same; money or credits from federal government24-492Same; bonds24-493Same; duties of county engineer24-495Expenditure from general fund24-496Same; improvements authorized24-497Same; limitations24-498Detachment of certain lands; petition; hearing; notice; territory liable for outstanding bonded indebtedness24-499Dissolution of districts having no bonded indebtedness; petition, notice and hearing; resolution; funds, disposition; county commissioners' powers as to dormant districts24-499aSame; expenditure of funds from district without budgeting24-4,100Dissolution of certain inoperative districts located wholly within cities; procedure