Kansas Statutes 24-610. Drain commissioner; term; duties; bond; oath
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 24-610
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Person: shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation;
(b) "publication" shall mean the publication in a newspaper or newspapers admitted to the United States mail as second-class matter, of general circulation within the joint drainage district;
(c) "land" shall mean real property as that term is defined by the laws of the state of Kansas, and shall include any road, highway, bridge, street or other right-of-way;
(d) "chief engineer" shall mean the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture;
(e) "board" shall mean the board of directors of a joint drainage district;
(f) "qualified voter" shall mean any qualified elector of the district and any person 18 years of age or over owning land within the district, although not a resident therein;
(g) "landowner" shall mean 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;
(h) "steering committee" shall be the group of not less than three (3) qualified voters who shall serve as the governing body of the proposed drainage district until the first board of directors is elected. See Kansas Statutes 24-656
The board of supervisors of any district organized under this law shall appoint some competent person to award all contracts contemplated in this article to the lowest bidder, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, except as herein otherwise provided, to be known as the drain commissioner. He shall hold his office for one year and until his successor is appointed and qualified. He shall have a general superintendence of all works put under contract by said district, subject to the supervision and control of said board of supervisors, and shall report the same when complete according to the terms and stipulations of the contract, and certify the same to the board of supervisors who shall review and accept or reject the work so completed.
Said drain commissioner shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, enter into bond with proper surety, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors in any sum not less than two thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars, to the drainage district of which he shall be appointed drain commissioner, conditioned that he faithfully and honestly perform all the duties required of him by law, and deliver to his successor in office all instruments, papers and documents that may come into his hands by virtue of his office as said drain commissioner, and shall take and subscribe the said oath required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 24-607, which shall be endorsed upon his bond, and filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which said district, or greater part thereof, shall be situated.