Kansas Statutes

Chapter 80: Townships And Township Officers

Article 2: Township Officers

Statutes:

• 80-201: Filling of vacancies; term, oath and bond.
• 80-202: Qualifications and oaths of certain township officials.
• 80-203: Township treasurer's bond.
• 80-204:
• 80-205:
• 80-206:
• 80-207: Township officers; reimbursement for expenses; compensation.
• 80-208: Compensation, salary or benefits, increases; limitations.

• 80-201: Filling of vacancies; term, oath and bond. All township officers appointed to fill vacancies shall hold their office for the remainder of the unexpired term, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and they shall take a like oath and give a like undertaking as is required to be given by officers elected.

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 15; R.S. 1923, 80-201; L. 1963, ch. 501, § 1; March 1.

• 80-202: Qualifications and oaths of certain township officials. Every person elected to the office of trustee, clerk or treasurer of any township, or road overseer of any road district, shall be an elector of said township or road district at the time of his or her election, and shall within twenty (20) days after he shall be notified of his or her election take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by law, and shall forthwith cause such oath to be filed in the office of the county clerk of his or her county; and in case any of such officers shall become nonresidents of their respective townships or road districts, their offices shall at once become vacant.

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 16; L. 1883, ch. 146, § 1; R.S. 1923, 80-202; L. 1973, ch. 134, § 55; L. 1974, ch. 446, § 26; July 1.

• 80-203: Township treasurer's bond. Before entering upon the duties of office, the township treasurer shall execute a bond to the state of Kansas in an amount determined by the board of county commissioners. The amount and sufficiency of the bond shall be approved by the board of county commissioners, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the treasurer's duties. The bond shall be filed by the treasurer in the office of the county clerk.

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 17; R.S. 1923, 80-203; L. 1969, ch. 468, § 1; L. 1984, ch. 370, § 1; July 1.

• 80-204:

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 18; R.S. 1923, 80-204; Repealed, L. 1974, ch. 446, § 27; July 1.

• 80-205:

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 19; R.S. 1923, 80-205; L. 1933, ch. 328, § 1; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 134, § 61; July 1, 1974.

• 80-206:

        History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 20; R.S. 1923, 80-206; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 134, § 61; July 1, 1974.

• 80-207: Township officers; reimbursement for expenses; compensation. (a) The township officers of any township shall be reimbursed for any expenses incurred while actually and necessarily attending to township business.

        (b)   Members of the township board shall receive compensation for their services while actually and necessarily conducting township business.

        (c)   The township board, by adoption of a resolution, may fix the amount of compensation to be received by the members of the board. Such resolution shall be published at least once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the township. If the total amount of compensation to be received annually by each member of the board is $100 or less, such resolution shall not be required to be published and shall be effective upon adoption of the resolution. A resolution providing for an increase in compensation shall not be effective until 30 days following the date of the last publication of the resolution.

        History:   L. 1982, ch. 429, § 4; L. 1996, ch. 184, § 5; L. 1997, ch. 17, § 1; July 1.

• 80-208: Compensation, salary or benefits, increases; limitations. A township officer who also is an employee of the township shall abstain from voting for or participating in any motion of the township board to increase the compensation, salary or benefits to be paid to such person as an employee of the township.

        History:   L. 2002, ch. 15, § 1; July 1.