Kansas Statutes 82a-609. Payment of costs
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 82a-609
- District: means a rural water district organized pursuant to this act;
(b) "board" means the governing body of a district;
(c) the terms "board of county commissioners" and "county clerk" shall mean, respectively, the board of county commissioners and county clerk of the county in which the greatest portion of the territory of any existing or proposed rural water district is located;
(d) "participating member" means an individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation and:
(1) Which has subscribed to one or more benefit units of such district; or
(2) which is charged a franchise fee for water service which is paid, either directly or indirectly through another water provider, to such district;
(e) "chief engineer" means the chief engineer of the division of water resources, Kansas department of agriculture. See Kansas Statutes 82a-612
The board of directors of any water-supply district as provided shall have power to cause to be constructed within such district such works as are authorized by this act and to issue bonds to pay the cost thereof, the outstanding amount at any time of such bonds not exceeding ten percent of the assessed valuation of all taxable lands and improvements within the district as shown by the assessment and tax rolls of the preceding year, and such bonds to be paid by a special assessment levied upon taxable lands and improvements of landowners within the district, and assessed in proportion to the benefit units subscribed to by each landowner as provided in the next preceding section.