Kansas Statutes 12-1673. Work performed by city upon failure to perform duties imposed by law or ordinance; costs, how collected; limitation on actions
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-1673
- city: means a city located within Crawford county. See Kansas Statutes 12-16,116
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture or other association of persons;
(b) "Hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing lodging, which may or may not also provide meals, entertainment or various other personal services to transient guests, and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by transient or permanent guests and having more than two bedrooms furnished for the accommodation of such guests;
(c) "Transient guest" means a person who occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court for not more than 28 consecutive days;
(d) "Business" means any person engaged in the business of renting, leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations, rooms or a part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist court;
(e) "Convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to attract visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including advertising, directed to at least one of the five basic convention and tourism market segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers, association meetings and conventions, trade shows and corporate meetings and travel; and (2) support of those activities and organizations which encourage increased lodging facility occupancy; and
(f) "Accommodations broker" means any business which maintains an inventory of two or more rooms in one or more locations which are offered for pay to a person or persons for not more than 28 consecutive days. See Kansas Statutes 12-1692
(a) The governing body of any city located in a county designated an urban area as authorized by the Kansas constitution, in addition to any other authority provided by law, may provide for and charge all or any part of the cost of any work performed by the city which is deemed necessary as a result of the failure of any person to perform any work which has been made his or her duty to perform by law or ordinance.
(b) Such service assessment shall be made by ordinance which may be adopted not less than sixty (60) days after a written statement of the costs has been given the owner or other persons. Prior to the adoption of the ordinance the charge may be paid without interest to the city treasurer. All such moneys shall be credited as a reimbursable item to the fund created by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 12-1674 from which the cost of such services by the city are paid or payable.
(c) Any service assessment may be paid in one (1) installment or, if the governing body deems it advisable, over a period of not to exceed five (5) years in equal annual installments.
(d) The governing body may let any of the aforesaid service work to contract or order the work to be done by its own personnel.
(e) All unpaid service assessments shall be certified by the city clerk to the county clerk with interest on the unpaid installments at a rate fixed by the governing body of the city, which shall not exceed ten percent (10%) per annum.
(f) No suit to set aside any service assessment shall be brought after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the publication of the ordinance fixing said assessments.