Kansas Statutes 10-108b. Same; notice of pending or threatened lawsuit, effect
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 10-108b
- 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.
- Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
- Municipality: as used in this chapter and all acts amendatory thereto, unless otherwise expressed in such amendment, shall mean and include every corporation and quasi corporation empowered to issue bonds in payment of which taxes may be levied. See Kansas Statutes 10-101
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
Whenever any municipality issuing bonds pursuant to article 1 of chapter 10 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated is unable to execute a nonlitigation certificate as required by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 10-108a because of a pending or threatened lawsuit, any such pending or threatened lawsuit not filed with a court of competent jurisdiction in this state within thirty (30) days after any member of the governing body of such municipality is served with written notice of such pending or threatened lawsuit shall be deemed insufficient to challenge the validity of the nonlitigation certificate, and after the expiration of such thirty (30) day period, such certificate may be executed and filed as though no lawsuit was pending or threatened.