Kansas Statutes 12-837. Same; resolution; plans, specifications and estimate; approval or disapproval by secretary of health and environment; cost limited
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-837
- City: means any city in this state. See Kansas Statutes 12-870
- Person: means a natural person, a public agency, private corporation, firm, partnership, cooperative association or business trust of any nature whatsoever, organized and existing under the laws of any state or of the United States. See Kansas Statutes 12-886
- system: means all contracts for the purchase of natural gas at the wellhead, contracts for the transmission and processing of natural gas, contracts for the sale and delivery of natural gas to consumers, contracts for the sale for resale and delivery of natural gas to distributors, and all other contracts made under authority of this act by the city or the authority, together with all expenditures for obligations under such contracts and all receipts from the sale or other disposition of natural gas and other products pursuant to such contracts. See Kansas Statutes 12-870
If the governing body of a city subject to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 12-836, and amendments thereto, determines it necessary to improve the city’s system of waterworks by enlarging, repairing, extending and improving the system, the governing body shall so declare by resolution. The city engineer or a person duly authorized to act for the city shall be directed by the resolution to forthwith prepare plans and specifications and a detailed estimate of the cost of the improvements and shall file the plans, specifications and estimate with the clerk of the city. Such plans, specifications and estimate shall be presented to the secretary of health and environment for approval. If approved by the secretary, the plans, specifications and estimate shall be returned to the clerk of the city, showing such approval. No bonds to pay the cost for any improvement provided for in this act shall be issued by the governing body of any city until the plans, specifications and estimate have been approved by the secretary of health and environment. The cost of any improvement provided for in this act shall in no case exceed the cost of the approved estimate.