§ 24-1201 Title of act
§ 24-1201a Declaration of public necessity for creation of districts; power; benefits
§ 24-1202 Definitions
§ 24-1203 Establishment of district by petition
§ 24-1203a Establishment of district initiated by board of county commissioners
§ 24-1204 Contents of petition; form
§ 24-1205 Petition, circulation; inclusion of city or part thereof within proposed boundaries, identification; filing and determination of sufficiency of petition
§ 24-1206 Sufficient petition transmitted to chief engineer; investigation, report and approval or disapproval; approval required, when; transmittal of approval to secretary of state and to chairperson of steering committee
§ 24-1207 Meeting of steering committee; notice; election of board of directors; officers; election on organization of district; voting places and election procedures; certification of results to secretary of state; certificate of incorporation, issuance and rec
§ 24-1208 Payment of costs and expenses when petition or resolution is disapproved by engineer or defeated by voters; tax levy
§ 24-1209 Corporate powers and duties
§ 24-1210 Directors; number; terms; expenses
§ 24-1211 Election of directors at annual meeting; report of financial condition, projects and activities; notice and conduct of elections; vacancies; changes in number of directors or date of annual meeting; notice; procedure
§ 24-1212 Open meetings of directors; notice; quorum
§ 24-1213 General plan, estimate of costs and information as to benefits; transmittal to chief engineer, when; open to public; report to directors
§ 24-1214 Financing proposed projects; methods; resolution as to costs; public hearing; notice, contents; appearances; written statement required; transmittal of written statements to chief engineer; adoption, modification or rejection of general plan or method
§ 24-1214a Districts adopting general plan prior to April 1, 1961; method of financing; procedure
§ 24-1215 Approval of bond issue by qualified voters of district required; notice; election procedures; tax levies for financing costs; resolution, publication; protest petition; election
§ 24-1216 Order and procedure as to specific projects; surveys, plans, specifications and estimates of costs; filing with secretary of board; open to inspection; transmittal of approved plans to chief engineer, when; review of general plan; revisions of plan; re
§ 24-1217 Computation of special assessments; appraisement and apportionment; resolution; limitations; hearing of complaints; notice; alterations; resolution fixing assessments; notice to landowners; bonds and levies, when
§ 24-1218 Right of entry upon lands in connection with work of district; damages
§ 24-1219 No-fund warrants for initial expenses; annual tax levies for general fund expenses; increased levies, procedure; tax levies for no-fund warrants and bonds; structure maintenance fund
§ 24-1220 Improvement bonds for works of improvement; terms; how payable; limitation on bonded indebtedness
§ 24-1221 Act supplemental to other laws
§ 24-1222 Chief engineer authorized to transfer territory from one district to another, when; petition
§ 24-1223 Same; contents of petition
§ 24-1224 Same; presentment of petition to chief engineer; notice and hearing
§ 24-1225 Same; findings, decisions and declarations of chief engineer
§ 24-1226 Same; liability for outstanding bonded indebtedness
§ 24-1227 Extension of territory of district; petition, contents; approval of chief engineer
§ 24-1228 Dissolution of district, when; resolution; petition; election; certificate of dissolution
§ 24-1229 Dissolution of portion of district; petition, contents; powers and duties of chief engineer; notice and hearing; evidence; findings, filing; certificate of dissolution; recordation; removal of director upon dissolution, effect
§ 24-1230 Notification of directors upon dissolution or partial dissolution of district; duties of secretary, treasurer and directors; effective date of dissolution; recordation of certificate of dissolution
§ 24-1231 Disposition of funds of totally or partially disorganized district; duties of treasurer
§ 24-1232 Minutes and records of totally dissolved district filed with county clerk
§ 24-1233 Districts established prior to July 1, 1961; confirmation and validation; procedure
§ 24-1234 Intermittent closing of roads within watershed district; county roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of county commissioners; publication and notice
§ 24-1235 Same; township roads; permit application; authority and duties of board of township trustees; publication and notice
§ 24-1236 Same; county bridge and township road, 24-1234 applies; approval by board of township trustees
§ 24-1237 Same; costs of publication and notice; permit to require road markers
§ 24-1238 Watershed district responsibilities transferred to city of Atchison
§ 24-1239 White Clay watershed district dissolved
§ 24-1240 White Clay watershed district property, contract and debt obligations transferred to city of Atchison

Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 24 > Article 12 - Watershed Districts

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: shall mean any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation;

    (b) "publication" shall mean the publication in a newspaper or newspapers admitted to the United States mail as second-class matter, of general circulation within the watershed district;

    (c) "land" shall mean real property as that term is defined by the laws of the state of Kansas, and shall include any road, highway, bridge, street or other right-of-way;

    (d) "chief engineer" shall mean the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture;

    (e) "board" shall mean the board of directors of a watershed district;

    (f) "district" shall mean an area comprising a watershed or two or more adjoining watersheds exclusive of lands within other organized watershed districts for which organization is proposed or which has been organized under the provisions of article 12 of chapter 24 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto. See Kansas Statutes 24-1202

  • 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.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • watershed: shall mean all of the area within the state draining toward a selected point on any watercourse, stream, lake or depression;

    (i) "subwatershed" shall mean a division of the district as nearly equal in size to other divisions of the district as feasible and including as nearly as practicable one or more tributaries to the main stream which drains from the district;

    (j) "qualified voter" shall mean any qualified elector of the district and any person 18 years of age or over owning land within the district, although not a resident therein;

    (k) "landowner" shall mean the record owner of the fee in any real estate in the district or the fee in the surface rights of any real estate in the district, but the owners of an oil and gas lease, mineral rights or interest, easements or mortgages as such shall not be considered landowners, and school districts, cemetery associations and municipal corporations shall not be considered landowners;

    (l) "steering committee" shall be the group of qualified voters, not less than the number to be chosen for the board of directors, who shall serve as the governing body of the proposed watershed district until the first board of directors is elected;

    (m) "general plan" shall mean a preliminary engineering report describing the characteristics of the district, the nature and methods of dealing with the soil and water problems within the district, and the projects proposed to be undertaken by the district. See Kansas Statutes 24-1202