Kansas Statutes 12-851. Police jurisdiction of cities, second and third classes
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-851
- City: means any city in this state. See Kansas Statutes 12-870
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
Police jurisdiction is hereby granted and extended to cities of the second and third class, over all lands and grounds upon which waterworks, sewer systems, pipe, power, light, telephone lines and ways of access thereto, and all property and property rights, owned by the city in connection therewith, owned, controlled, or managed by such cities; and all ordinances of such cities now in force or hereafter enacted shall extend to, cover and include all such public utilities and property and property rights to the same extent and with like force and effect without as within the limits of such cities.
