Statute 55-211a: Lease of lands by municipal corporations, board of park
commissioners, improvement districts or other public agency or
quasi-municipal corporation; disposition of moneys.
The governing body of any municipal corporation, board of park
commissioners of any municipal corporation, trustees or directors of any
cemetery association or improvement district, directors of any cemetery
district, township board of any township, or any other public agency or
quasi-municipal corporation, owning or having the management and control of
any tract of land within the state of Kansas, is hereby authorized and
empowered to lease such lands, or any part thereof, for drilling for oil or
gas upon such terms as may be agreed upon except that any such
lease shall contain provisions for spacing of producing wells in accordance
with rules and regulations of the state corporation commission as provided
by law and no oil or gas well shall be drilled or located within 100 feet
of that portion of any such lands actually used for burial purposes.
Any moneys arising from such lease or the production of oil or gas may
be credited to a special reserve or trust fund and invested in the manner
prescribed by K.S.A. 12-1675 et seq. and amendments thereto. All interest
received from the investment of moneys in special reserve or trust funds
and any moneys received from such lease or the production of oil or gas
which is not credited to a special reserve or trust fund shall become
a part of the general fund of any such municipality, board of park
commissioners, association, improvement district, cemetery district,
township, public agency, or quasi-municipal corporation.
History: L. 1949, ch. 307, § 1; L. 1957, ch. 314, § 1; L. 1968,
ch. 277, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 202, § 1; July 1.