Kansas Statutes 12-2718. Cities of less than 200,000 population; agreements with federal or state agencies for municipal water supply and recreational areas
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-2718
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- municipality: means any city of the first, second or third class owning and operating a water distribution system or any township or improvement district owning and operating a water distribution system, and which city, township or improvement district is located in a county having a population of not less than thirty thousand (30,000) nor more than forty thousand (40,000) with an assessed taxable tangible valuation of not less than seventy-eight million dollars ($78,000,000) nor more than ninety million dollars ($90,000,000). See Kansas Statutes 12-2701
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
Any city having a population of less than two hundred thousand (200,000) is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the United States of America or an agency or instrumentality thereof, or with the state of Kansas or any instrumentality or political subdivision of the state, for the furnishing of, or the construction and equipping of, a municipal water supply or a recreational area and facilities, or both water supply and recreational area and facilities, for such contracting city from water storage and distribution facilities constructed by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or with the state of Kansas or any instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, whether said water storage be on land owned or flowage easement or other easement owned by said municipality, the United States of America or the state of Kansas or any political subdivision thereof, and said contract may be made whether said water supply and recreational area is within or outside the corporate limits of the contracting city, and whether or not said water supply is to be connected with said city’s water distribution system by pipeline or other conduit.