Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 68-1701

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

There shall be designated in the state of Kansas a system of roads and highways which, for the purposes of this act, shall be known as the county major collector road system meeting the requirements of title 23 of the code of federal regulations, the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of which shall be under the jurisdiction of the board of county commissioners of each county.