Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 19-27,188

  • 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

  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

The portion of the cost of any improvement to be assessed against the property in the benefit district, as determined in accordance with Kan. Stat. Ann. § 19-27,184, shall be apportioned against the property in accordance with the special benefits accruing thereto by reasons of such improvement. The cost may be assessed equally per front foot or per square foot against all lots and pieces of land within such benefit district or assessed against such property according to the value of such lots and pieces of land therein, such value to be determined by the governing body of the county with or without regard to the buildings and improvements thereon or such cost may be determined and fixed on the basis of any other reasonable assessment plan which will result in imposing substantially equal burdens or shares of the cost upon property similarly benefited. The governing body, from time to time, may determine and establish, by resolution, reasonable general classification and a formula for the apportionment of the cost between the county and the area to be assessed, and the methods of assessing the special benefits, for various classes of improvements.