Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 82a-1344

  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt and things in action, and digital assets as defined in the revised uniform fiduciary access to digital assets act, Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. 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

Each water assurance district incorporated under the provisions of this act shall be a body politic and corporate and shall have the power to:

(a) Adopt a seal;

(b) sue and be sued by its corporate name;

(c) purchase, hold, sell and convey land and personal property and to execute such contracts as the board of directors, deems necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purpose for which organized;

(d) employ such professional, technical and clerical services and other assistance as deemed necessary by the board of directors;

(e) acquire personal property by gift or purchase;

(f) impose charges as provided by this act;

(g) select a residence or home office for the water assurance district, which shall be at a place in a county in which the district or any part thereof is located and may be either within or without the district as may be designated by the board of directors; and

(h) take any other action necessary to achieve the purposes of the state water assurance program.