19-3521a. Chlorination and fluoridation of water supply of district, when; notice; election provisions; fluoridation standards.
19-3521a
19-3521a. Chlorination and fluoridation of water
supply of district, when; notice; election provisions; fluoridation
standards.
The governing body of any water district created and operating under the
provisions of K.S.A. 19-3501 to 19-3521 and amendments thereto may
provide for the chlorination and fluoridation of the public water supply
of such water district and such other processing of the public water
supply in said district as the board may determine to be advisable for
the purpose of improving the public water supply, except that before
such public water supply shall be fluoridated: (a) The board shall
publish a notice once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a
newspaper of general circulation in the water district stating its
intent to fluoridate such water supply and, if within ten (10) days
after the last publication of such notice, a petition opposing the
fluoridation of said water supply, signed by a number of qualified
registered electors of the water district at least equal to five percent
(5%) of the total number of votes cast in said water district at the
last preceding general election for the office of secretary of state, is
filed with the water district board of the water district, then the
board shall not fluoridate said water supply unless and until the
proposition to fluoridate said water supply is submitted to a vote of
the electors of the district at a regular election of members of the
board of the water district and a majority of those voting on the
proposition shall have voted in favor thereof, or (b) the board may, if
it so determines and publishes a notice of such determination as
provided under (a) herein, submit the proposition to fluoridate said
water to a vote of the electors of the district at a regular election of
members of the board of the water district, or (c) upon a petition
proposing the fluoridation of said water supply signed by a number of
registered legal electors of the water district at least equal to five
percent (5%) of the total number of votes cast in said water district at
the last preceding general election for the office of secretary of state
being filed with the water district board requesting that the
proposition to fluoridate said water be submitted to a vote, the board
shall publish a notice of the filing of such petition as provided under
(a) herein and shall so submit the proposition to fluoridate said water
to a vote of the electors of the district at a regular election of
members of the board of the water district, and (d), the board shall be
bound by the vote of the majority of those voting on the proposition at
any election as herein provided. Such election shall be governed by the
provisions of K.S.A. 19-3507 insofar as the same can be made
applicable and the proposition shall be stated on the ballot in the
following form:
"Shall the governing body of water district No. ____ of ______________ county fluoridate the public water supply of said water district?"
Yes | |;
No | |;
If the board shall fluoridate the public water supply of said district it shall be in accordance with the recommendations and standards of the secretary of health and environment.
History: L. 1965, ch. 383, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 462, § 26; July 1.