24-641. Legalizing drainage districts created by district court or board of county commissioners. - Kansas Statutes

24-641

Chapter 24.--DRAINAGE AND LEVEES Article 6.--DRAINAGE IN ONE OR MORE COUNTIES

      24-641.   Legalizing drainage districts created by district court orboard of county commissioners.Whenever any district court in the state of Kansas or the board ofcounty commissioners of any county has declared or ordered any definedportion of contiguous territory to be a drainage district and suchterritory has elected officers or functioned in any manner as a drainagedistrict, such defined portion of contiguous territory, as the sameappears in the description in the order defining such territory, ishereby recognized as a legal body politic and corporate of this stateand as a drainage district for the purpose heretofore provided by law,and the creation of each such drainage district is hereby validated andlegalized and the territory therein embraced as shown by order of thecourt or order of the board of county commissioners shall be held to bethe legal description of such district: Provided, This act shallnot apply to any such drainage district where the board of supervisorsthereof, under the provision of K.S.A. 24-647 to 24-653, inclusive, have adopted aresolution providing for the dissolution and disorganization of suchdrainage district.

      History:   L. 1927, ch. 199, § 1; L. 1931, ch. 187, § 1; Feb. 28.