Kansas Statutes

Chapter 13: Cities Of The First Class

PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS

Article 4: Legislative Department; Powers Of Governing Body

Statutes:

• 13-401:
• 13-402:
• 13-403:
• 13-404:
• 13-405:
• 13-406:
• 13-407:
• 13-408:
• 13-409:
• 13-410:
• 13-411:
• 13-412:
• 13-413:
• 13-414:
• 13-414a:
• 13-415:
• 13-416:
• 13-417:
• 13-418:
• 13-419:
• 13-420:
• 13-421:
• 13-422:
• 13-423:
• 13-424:
• 13-425:
• 13-426:
• 13-427:
• 13-428:
• 13-429:
• 13-430:
• 13-431: Utility rates; review by court.
• 13-432:
• 13-433:
• 13-434:
• 13-435:
• 13-436: Health and sanitation; election, when.
• 13-437:
• 13-438:
• 13-439:
• 13-439a:
• 13-440:
• 13-440a:
• 13-441:
• 13-442:
• 13-442a:
• 13-442b:
• 13-442c:
• 13-443: Improving or vacating streets and alleys; reversion of land; recording of ordinance.
• 13-444:
• 13-444a, 13-444b:
• 13-445:
• 13-446 to 13-448:
• 13-449:
• 13-450 to 13-456:
• 13-457:
• 13-458:
• 13-459:
• 13-459a:
• 13-460: Art museum board in cities over 200,000.
• 13-461: Same; members, appointment, terms, vacancies.
• 13-462: Same; officers, duties; bond of treasurer.
• 13-463: Same; rules and regulations; acquisition of art objects; acceptance of gifts and moneys; administration.
• 13-464: Same; property management and control.
• 13-465: Same; director and employees, compensation; leasing property; records and reports.
• 13-466: Same; appropriations by city; budget; expenditures.
• 13-467:
• 13-468, 13-469:

• 13-401:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 21; R.S. 1923, § 13-401; Repealed, L. 1965, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-402:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-402; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-403:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 23; R.S. 1923, § 13-403; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-404:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-404; Repealed, L. 1971, ch. 53, § 1; July 1.

• 13-405:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 25; R.S. 1923, § 13-405; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-406:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 26; R.S. 1923, § 13-406; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-407:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 27; R.S. 1923, § 13-407; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-408:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 28; R.S. 1923, § 13-408; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-409:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 29; R.S. 1923, § 13-409; Repealed, L. 1957, ch. 96, § 3; June 29.

• 13-410:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 30; R.S. 1923, § 13-410; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-411:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 31; R.S. 1923, § 13-411; Repealed, L. 1957, ch. 96, § 3; June 29.

• 13-412:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 32; R.S. 1923, § 13-412; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-413:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 33; R.S. 1923, § 13-413; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-414:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-414; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-414a:

        History:   L. 1943, ch. 88. § 1; L. 1970, ch. 77, § 1; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 80, § 1; July 1.

• 13-415:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 35; R.S. 1923, § 13-415; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-416:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 36; R.S. 1923, § 13-416; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-417:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 37; R.S. 1923, § 13-417; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 485, § 24; July 1.

• 13-418:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 38; R.S. 1923, § 13-418; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-419:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 39; R.S. 1923, § 13-419; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-420:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 40; R.S. 1923, § 13-420; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-421:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 41; R.S. 1923, § 13-421; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-422:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 42; R.S. 1923, § 13-422; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-423:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 43; R.S. 1923, § 13-423; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-424:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 44; R.S. 1923, § 13-424; L. 1951, ch. 139, § 2; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 61, § 12-4702; April 1, 1974.

• 13-425:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 45; R.S. 1923, § 13-425; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-426:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-426; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-427:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 47; R.S. 1923, § 13-427; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-428:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 48; R.S. 1923, § 13-428; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 118, § 3; July 1.

• 13-429:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 49; R.S. 1923, § 13-429; Repealed, L. 1961, ch. 72, § 8; April 12.

• 13-430:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-430; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-431: Utility rates; review by court. To prescribe and fix maximum rates and charges, and regulate the collection of the same, for all water, electric light, heat, power, gas, telephone service or any other commodity or service furnished to such city or to any of the inhabitants thereof by any person or corporation now authorized by such city by virtue of a franchise ordinance or laws of this state, or that may hereafter be authorized by virtue of a franchise ordinance or laws of this state to furnish water, electric light, heat, power, gas or telephone service, or any other commodity or service, to such city or to its inhabitants.

        The rates and charges so prescribed shall at all times be reasonable and just; and if any city shall fix unreasonable and unjust rates and charges, the same may, at the instance of any producer or consumer, be reviewed and determined by the district court of the county in which such city is situated.

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-431; Dec. 27.

• 13-432:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-432; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-433:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 53; R.S. 1923, § 13-433; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-434:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-434; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-435:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 55; R.S. 1923, § 13-435; Repealed, L. 1971, ch. 54, § 1; July 1.

• 13-436: Health and sanitation; election, when. To make regulations to secure the general health of the city; to prevent and remove nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the construction of privy vaults and cesspools, and to regulate or suppress those already constructed; to compel and regulate the connection of all property with sewers; to suppress hogpens; to regulate or suppress slaughterhouses and stockyards, and prescribe and enforce regulations for cleaning and keeping the same in order; and the cleaning and keeping in order of warehouses, stables, alleys, yards, private ways and grounds, outhouses, and other places where offensive matter is kept or allowed to accumulate, and to compel and regulate the removal of garbage and filth beyond the city limits; and also to provide for taxing and to tax the cost of abating or removing any nuisance against any lot or tract of ground upon which the same is located and maintained, and to levy, certify and collect the same as a special assessment, in the same manner as for repairing and building sidewalks, in all cases where the owner, occupant or agent of said property shall fail, refuse or neglect to abate or remove said nuisance, after receiving notice to do so and being given a reasonable time in which to remove or abate the same, where said city has been compelled to abate or remove said nuisance.

        The city may, when authorized by a majority of the votes cast at an election held for the purpose of voting funds to pay for the same, also establish and construct or cause to be established and constructed crematories, desiccating or reduction works, within or without the city, for the purpose of destroying dead animals, night soil, and garbage, and make all rules necessary for the operation of the same.

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 56; L. 1905, ch. 109, § 1; March 21; R.S. 1923, § 13-436.

• 13-437:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 57; R.S. 1923, § 13- 437; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-438:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-438; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-439:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 60; R.S. 1923, § 13-439; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-439a:

        History:   L. 1941, ch. 148, § 1; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 91, § 1; June 30.

• 13-440:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 13-440; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-440a:

        History:   L. 1959, ch. 100, § 1; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 92, § 1; June 30.

• 13-441:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 62; R.S. 1923, § 13-441; Repealed, L. 1961, ch. 74, § 8; June 30.

• 13-442:

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 63; R.S. 1923, § 13-442; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 13-442a:

        History:   L. 1943, ch. 111, § 1; L. 1957, ch. 88, § 3; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 70, § 2; June 30.

• 13-442b:

        History:   L. 1945, ch. 126, § 1; Repealed, L. 1957, ch. 106, § 1; June 29.

• 13-442c:

        History:   L. 1955, ch. 110, § 1; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 70, § 2; June 30.

• 13-443: Improving or vacating streets and alleys; reversion of land; recording of ordinance. The governing body of the city shall have the power to open, widen, extend or otherwise improve any street, avenue, alley or lane, and also to vacate and close any street, avenue, alley or lane or portion thereof. Before the governing body opens, widens or extends any street, avenue, alley or lane it shall proceed to condemn or acquire by purchase or gift the necessary lands as provided by law.

        When any street, avenue, alley or lane is vacated it shall revert to the owners of land thereto adjoining on each side, in proportion to the frontage of such land, except in cases where such street, avenue, alley or lane may have been taken for public use in a different proportion, in which case it shall revert to the adjoining land in the same proportion as it was taken from it.

        Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending or vacating any street, avenue, alley or lane becomes effective, the clerk of the city shall file a copy thereof which has been certified by the city clerk as a true and correct copy in the office of the county clerk and in the office of the register of deeds. The county clerk shall enter the same in the transfer records of [the] county clerk's office and the register of deeds shall record the same in the deed records of the county and no fee shall be charged by the county clerk or register of deeds for such entering or recording.

        History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 64; R.S. 1923, § 13-443; L. 1951, ch. 142, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 234, § 27; L. 1984, ch. 65, § 5; July 1.

• 13-444:

        History:   L. 1937, ch. 151, § 1; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 70, § 2; June 30.

• 13-444a, 13-444b:

        History:   L. 1949, ch. 161, §§ 1, 2; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 70, § 2; June 30.

• 13-445:

        History:   L. 1937, ch. 154, § 1; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 93, § 1; June 30.

• 13-446 to 13-448:

        History:   L. 1943, ch. 108, §§ 1 to 3; L. 1951, ch. 145, §§ 1 to 3; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 94, § 1; June 30.

• 13-449:

        History:   L. 1943, ch. 117, § 1; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 71, § 1; July 1.

• 13-450 to 13-456:

        History:   L. 1945, ch. 128, §§ 1 to 7; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 72, § 1; July 1.

• 13-457:

        History:   L. 1951, ch. 170, § 1; Repealed, L. 1953, ch. 71, § 2; April 7.

• 13-458:

        History:   L. 1951, ch. 171, § 1; Repealed, L. 1969, ch. 91, § 1; July 1.

• 13-459:

        History:   L. 1955, ch. 115, § 1; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 73, § 1; July 1.

• 13-459a:

        History:   L. 1973, ch. 71, § 1; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 94, § 1; July 1.

• 13-460: Art museum board in cities over 200,000. Any city of the first class having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) may by ordinance create and establish a board within the administrative departments of the city for the general supervision and care of a museum of art and objects of art belonging to the city or exhibited therein. The aforesaid board shall be known as "The __________ (name of the city) art museum board."

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 131, § 1; June 29.

• 13-461: Same; members, appointment, terms, vacancies. The art museum board shall consist of not to exceed seven (7) members, appointed by the mayor with the approval of the board of commissioners of the city, and not to exceed five (5) members ex officio as may be provided by ordinance. The official members of said board shall be designated by the board of commissioners of the city to serve one for a term of one (1) year, two for a term of two (2) years, two for a term of three (3) years, and two for a term of four (4) years, and thereafter as their terms expire the members of such art museum board shall be appointed and hold their offices for a term of four (4) years and until their successor or successors shall have been appointed and qualified. Ex officio members of the board shall have a voice but no vote in the deliberations of the board. Vacancies on the board shall be filled for the unexpired terms.

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 131, § 2; June 29.

• 13-462: Same; officers, duties; bond of treasurer. The board shall organize annually by the election from its membership of a chairman and a vice-chairman, and from its membership or employees a secretary and a treasurer. The officers shall have and perform the duties commonly belonging to their offices and as may be fixed by the board. The treasurer shall give a bond to the city, filed with the city clerk and approved as to form by the city attorney, conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties and to well and truly account for all moneys coming into his or her possession as treasurer.

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 131, § 3; June 29.

• 13-463: Same; rules and regulations; acquisition of art objects; acceptance of gifts and moneys; administration. The governing body may authorize the art museum board of the city to adopt rules and regulations for its government and the performance of its duties with respect to the art museum of the city and the exhibition of paintings and other objects of art owned by the city or otherwise. The said board may be further authorized in the name of the city to acquire by purchase, gift, bequest or exchange, paintings, prints, statues, and other objects of art, and to act as trustee or custodian of collections and works of art within the city; to receive and accept any gift or donation to the city art museum and administer the same in accordance with the conditions of the donation; and to receive and administer any money and other property appropriated or granted by the city, the state of Kansas, the United States of America, or any agency thereof, for the purpose of aiding or maintaining art museums.

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 131, § 4; June 29.

• 13-464: Same; property management and control. Real or personal property may be granted, bequeathed, devised and conveyed to the city for the purpose of developing, maintaining, expanding, or relocating such museum of art provided for herein, upon such trusts and conditions as may be prescribed by the grantors or devisors thereof and agreed to by such art museum board. All property so devised, granted, bequeathed or conveyed, and the rents, issues, profits and income thereof, shall be subject to the management and control of said art museum board.

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 131, § 5; June 29.

• 13-465: Same; director and employees, compensation; leasing property; records and reports. The governing body of the city may authorize the art museum board to appoint, employ and remove a director of the museum, the necessary subordinate employees, and fix their compensation. The board may also enter into contracts with the board of park commissioners of the city or with other persons or corporations for the leasing and maintaining of buildings and grounds for art museum purposes. The board shall keep a record of all proceedings and transactions and make such reports as the board of commissioners of the city shall require.

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 131, § 6; June 29.

• 13-466: Same; appropriations by city; budget; expenditures. Any city which shall have established an art museum board for the purposes of this act may annually appropriate from the special contributions fund of the city such moneys as may be deemed necessary for the budget of the art museum board. The board shall prepare and submit an annual budget for the approval of the board of commissioners of the city at the time of the preparation of the city budget. The art museum board shall be authorized to expend such funds as budgeted for the purposes of this act.

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 131, § 7; June 29.

• 13-467:

        History:   L. 1959, ch. 101, § 1; Repealed, L. 1965, ch. 128, § 1; June 30.

• 13-468, 13-469:

        History:   L. 1959, ch. 84, §§ 1, 2; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 95, § 1; June 30.