Kansas Statutes

Chapter 14: Cities Of The Second Class

PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS

Article 4: General Powers Of Governing Body

Statutes:

• 14-401:
• 14-402:
• 14-403:
• 14-404:
• 14-405:
• 14-406:
• 14-407:
• 14-408:
• 14-409: Reassessment and relevy of taxes.
• 14-410:
• 14-411:
• 14-412:
• 14-413:
• 14-414:
• 14-415:
• 14-416:
• 14-417:
• 14-418:
• 14-419:
• 14-420:
• 14-421:
• 14-421a:
• 14-422:
• 14-423: Improving and vacating streets and alleys; reversion of land; recording of ordinance.
• 14-423a: Same; vacation order to be reasonable; determination.
• 14-424:
• 14-425:
• 14-426:
• 14-427:
• 14-428:
• 14-429:
• 14-430:
• 14-431:
• 14-432:
• 14-433:
• 14-434: Levees; depot grounds; railway crossings; running of trains; regulation of speed.
• 14-435:
• 14-436:
• 14-437, 14-438:
• 14-438a, 14-438b:
• 14-438c:
• 14-438d:
• 14-439:
• 14-440: Contracts; estimates.
• 14-441:
• 14-442:
• 14-443:
• 14-444, 14-445:
• 14-446:
• 14-447:
• 14-448:
• 14-449:

• 14-401:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 31; R.S. 1923, § 14-401; Repealed, L. 1965, ch. 90, § 1; June 30.

• 14-402:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-402; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-403:

        History:   L. 1907, ch. 127, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-403; Repealed, L. 1933, ch. 309, § 27; April 3.

• 14-404:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-404; Repealed, L. 1959, ch. 104, § 1; June 30.

• 14-405:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-405; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-406:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-406; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-407:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 39; R.S. 1923, § 14-407; Repealed, L. 1933, ch. 309, § 27; April 3.

• 14-408:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-408; Repealed, L. 1947, ch. 104, § 3; L. 1949, ch. 114, § 4; March 12.

• 14-409: Reassessment and relevy of taxes. In case the corporate authorities of any city have attempted to levy any assessments or taxes for improvements, or for the payment of any bonds or other evidence of debt, which assessments, taxes or bonds are or may have been informal, illegal or void, for the want of sufficient authority or other cause, the council of such city, at or before the time fixed for levying general taxes, may relevy and reassess any such assessments or taxes in the manner provided in this act.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 41; L. 1885, ch. 101, § 1; March 17; R.S. 1923, § 14-409.

• 14-410:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 42; R.S. 1923, § 14-410; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 114, § 1; July 1.

• 14-411:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 43; R.S. 1923, § 14-411; Repealed, L. 1971, ch. 60, § 1; July 1.

• 14-412:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 44; R.S. 1923, § 14-412; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 85, § 1; July 1.

• 14-413:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 45; R.S. 1923, § 14-413; Repealed, L. 1927, ch. 102, § 2; March 21.

• 14-414:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 46; R.S. 1923, § 14-414; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-415:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 47; L. 1881, ch. 40, § 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-411; Repealed, L. 1925, ch. 101, § 2; March 14.

• 14-416:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 48; R.S. 1923, § 14-416; Repealed, L. 1957, ch. 96, § 3; June 29.

• 14-417:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 49; R.S. 1923, § 14-417; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-418:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 50; R.S. 1923, § 14-418; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-419:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 51; R.S. 1923, § 14-419; L. 1953, ch. 108, § 1; Repealed, L. 1971, ch. 54, § 1; July 1.

• 14-420:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 52; R.S. 1923, § 14-420; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-421:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 53; L. 1908, ch. 34, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-421; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-421a:

        History:   L. 1929, ch. 133, § 1; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 106, § 1; June 30.

• 14-422:

        History:   L. 1907, ch. 124, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-422; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 107, § 1; June 30.

• 14-423: Improving and vacating streets and alleys; reversion of land; recording of ordinance. The governing body of any city of the second class shall have power to open, widen, extend or otherwise improve any street, avenue, alley, or lane, and also to vacate or discontinue the same and also to vacate or cancel any lot, block, townsite, part of townsite, addition or part of addition whenever deemed necessary or expedient. Before the governing body shall open, widen or extend any street, avenue, alley, or lane, it shall proceed to condemn or acquire by purchase or gift the necessary lands as provided by law. Whenever any street, avenue, alley, or lane shall be vacated, the same shall revert to the owners of real estate thereto adjacent on each side in proportion to the frontage of such real estate, except in cases where such street, avenue, alley or lane shall have been taken and appropriated to public use in different proportions, in which case it shall revert to adjacent lots of real estate in proportion as it was taken from them, and whenever any lot, block, townsite, part of townsite, addition or part of addition shall be vacated, all of the streets, avenues, alleys, and lanes therein shall revert as above provided.

        Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending, or vacating any street, avenue, alley or lane or vacating any lot, block, townsite, part of townsite, addition or part of addition becomes effective, the clerk of the city shall file a copy thereof which has been certified by the 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. 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. No reversion provided for herein shall be so applied as to divest any person of possession who is in actual or constructive possession of such property. The ordinance so vacating, discontinuing, or canceling shall provide that the same shall become effective 30 days after the publication thereof unless one or more interested parties file a written protest before the expiration of such time.

        In the event such a protest is filed in the office of the city clerk of the city within such time the governing body shall set the same for hearing 10 days after the end of the 30 day period above mentioned. The hearing may be continued from time to time, and at the conclusion thereof the governing body shall adopt a resolution confirming the vacation ordinance and the same shall then be filed with the county clerk and register of deeds as provided above, or in the event such resolution is not adopted, the vacation ordinance shall be void and of no effect.

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-423; L. 1939, ch. 129, § 1; L. 1951, ch. 142, § 2; L. 1961, ch. 102, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 65, § 6; July 1.

• 14-423a: Same; vacation order to be reasonable; determination. Any vacation ordinance authorized by this act shall be reasonable, and any taxpayer or any other person having an interest in property affected, may have such reasonableness determined by bringing an action, in the district court of the county in which such city is situated, against the governing body of said city.

        History:   L. 1961, ch. 102, § 2; June 30.

• 14-424:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 55; R.S. 1923, § 14- 424; L. 1961, ch. 77, § 3; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-425:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 56; R.S. 1923, § 14-425; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-426:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 57; R.S. 1923, § 14-426; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-427:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 59; L. 1885, ch. 99, § 7; R.S. 1923, § 14-427; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-428:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-428; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 84, § 1; July 1.

• 14-429:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 61; R.S. 1923, § 14-429; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-430:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 62; R.S. 1923, § 14-430; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-431:

        History:   L. 1921, ch. 135, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-431; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 108, § 1; June 30.

• 14-432:

        History:   L. 1921, ch. 136, § 1; R.S. 1923, § 14-432; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 109, § 1; June 30.

• 14-433:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 63; R.S. 1923, § 14-433; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 105, § 1; June 30.

• 14-434: Levees; depot grounds; railway crossings; running of trains; regulation of speed. The council shall have power to regulate levees, depots, depot grounds, and places of storing freight and goods, and to provide for the passage of railways through the streets and public grounds of the city; also to regulate the crossings of railway tracks and to provide precautions and adopt ordinances regulating the same; to regulate the running of railway engines and cars, except speed, and to adopt ordinances relating thereto; and to make any other and further provisions, rules and restrictions to prevent accidents at crossings, and on the tracks of railways, and to prevent fires from engines.

        On and after the effective date of this act, that part or parts of any rule, regulation or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section regulating the speed of railway engines and cars shall not be of any force or effect, and that part or parts shall be null and void.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 64; R.S. 1923, § 14-434; L. 1988, ch. 76, § 3; L. 1998, ch. 164, § 4; July 1.

• 14-435:

        History:   R.S. 1923, § 14-435; Repealed, L. 1971, ch. 53, § 1; July 1.

• 14-436:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 66; R.S. 1923, § 14-436; Repealed, L. 1951, ch. 485, § 24; July 1.

• 14-437, 14-438:

        History:   L. 1923, ch. 95, §§ 1, 2; R.S. 1923, §§ 14-437, 14-438; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 79, § 1; July 1.

• 14-438a, 14-438b:

        History:   L. 1927, ch. 141, §§ 1, 2; Repealed, L. 1969, ch. 108, § 1; July 1.

• 14-438c:

        History:   L. 1941, ch. 167, § 1; Repealed, L. 1949, ch. 164, § 1; June 30.

• 14-438d:

        History:   L. 1947, ch. 167, § 1; Repealed, L. 1969, ch. 108, § 1; July 1.

• 14-439:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 67; R.S. 1923, § 14-439; L. 1951, ch. 139, § 3; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 61, § 12-4702; April 1, 1974.

• 14-440: Contracts; estimates. Before the city council shall make any contract for building bridges or sidewalks or for any work on streets, or for any other work or improvement, an estimate of the cost thereof shall be made by the city engineer and submitted to the council; and no contract shall be entered into for any work or improvement for a price exceeding such estimate.

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 68; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-440.

• 14-441:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 69; R.S. 1923, § 14-441; L. 1951, ch. 144, § 1; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 375, § 19; July 1.

• 14-442:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 70; R.S. 1923, § 14-442; Repealed, L. 1959, ch. 64, § 17; June 30.

• 14-443:

        History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 74; R.S. 1923, § 14-443; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 81, § 1; July 1.

• 14-444, 14-445:

        History:   L. 1925, ch. 121, §§ 1, 2; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 110, § 1; June 30.

• 14-446:

        History:   L. 1955, ch. 128, § 1; Repealed, L. 1957, ch. 86, § 3; June 29.

• 14-447:

        History:   L. 1955, ch. 128, § 2; L. 1957, ch. 133, § 1; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 56, § 7; March 28.

• 14-448:

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 91, § 1; L. 1959, ch. 105, § 1; Repealed, L. 1968, ch. 249, § 1; July 1.

• 14-449:

        History:   L. 1957, ch. 138, § 1; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 80, § 1; July 1.