The legislature of the state of Kansas hereby affirms and ratifies the boundary survey describing and setting forth as the true and permanent boundary line between Kansas and Missouri the thalweg line (the deep water line) of the channel of the Missouri river abandoned by avulsion in April, 1952, which is more particularly described in the project maps, reports and documents submitted April 30, 1980, by Williamson Engineering & Surveying, St. Joseph, Missouri, consisting of sheets one to sixteen, inclusive, and filed of record in the office of the secretary of state for the state of Kansas, and is described and set forth in said survey as follows:

The true and permanent boundary line between the state of Missouri and the state of Kansas follows the thalweg line at the time of the April, 1952, avulsion and sudden change of the Missouri river channel and is more particularly described as beginning at the intersection of the present thalweg line of the Missouri river channel and the thalweg line of the Missouri river channel as it existed prior to the April, 1952, avulsion and having Kansas State Coordinate of 540240.22 feet north and 2878720.31 feet east of the Kansas North Zone; thence along the thalweg line as it existed prior to the April, 1952, avulsion the following courses and distances:

L. 1980, ch. 330, § 1; July 1.