Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 19-27,136

• Acquire: means the acquisition of property or interests in property by purchase, gift, condemnation or other lawful means and may include the acquisition of existing property and improvements already owned and previously financed by the county;

  (b) "benefit district" means an area deemed by the governing body to be benefited by an improvement and subject to special assessment for all or a portion of the cost of the improvement;

  (c) "consultant" means engineers, architects, planners, attorneys and other persons deemed competent to advise and assist the governing body in the planning, making and financing of improvements;

  (d) "cost" means all costs necessarily incurred for the preparation of preliminary reports, the preparation of plans and specifications, the preparation and publication of notices of hearings, resolutions and other proceedings, necessary fees and expenses of consultants and interest accrued on borrowed money during the period of construction; and the cost of issuing bonds, including amounts necessary to fund reserves, together with the cost of land, materials, labor and other lawful expenses incurred in planning and doing any improvement which may include a charge of not to exceed 5% of the total cost of an improvement or the cost of work done by the county to reimburse the county for the services rendered by the county in the administration and supervision of such improvement by its general officers. See Kansas Statutes 19-27,181

• county: means Sedgwick county, Kansas;

  (f) "governing body" means the board of county commissioners;

  (g) "improve" means to construct, reconstruct, maintain, restore, replace, renew, repair, install, equip, extend or to perform any work which will provide a new facility or enhance, extend or restore the value or utility of an existing facility;

  (h) "improvement" means any type of improvement made under authority of this act and includes reimprovement of a prior improvement. See Kansas Statutes 19-27,181

• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201