31-301. Fire protection; creation of benefit district; procedure. - Kansas Statutes

31-301

Chapter 31.--FIRE PROTECTION Article 3.--BENEFIT DISTRICTS

      31-301.   Fire protection; creation of benefit district; procedure.Whenever 51% of the resident property owners ofterritory located partly in two or more counties and adjacent to, orwithin a radius of 10 miles of a city, and the boundaries of theterritory coincide with the boundaries of a common-school district or arural high school district, shall petition the board of county commissionersof the county in which the city is located for the creation of a benefitdistrict for the purpose of providing fire-fighting service within thebenefit district by the city, it shall be the duty of the board of countycommissioners subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 19-270, by resolution, toorganize such benefit district and todefine the limits thereof as set forth in the petition. Thereafter theboard of county commissioners organizing the benefit district shall directthe county clerk of the county in which the city is located to transmit tothe county clerk of any other county in which any territory of the benefitdistrict lies, a copy of the original resolution of the board of countycommissioners organizing such district.

      History:   L. 1951, ch. 238, § 1;L. 1986, ch. 70, § 33; May 15.