68-518c. Tax levies by townships in noncounty unit counties; limitation; petition for election.
68-518c
68-518c. Tax levies by townships in noncounty unitcounties; limitation;petition for election.(a) The township board of any township located in a county not operatingunder the county road unit system, is hereby authorized to make anannual tax levy of not to exceed five mills for road purposes whichwill be sufficient, when addedto other revenues available for such purposes, to finance the adoptedbudget of expenditures for road purposes.
(b) The township board of any such township desiring to increasetheauthorized limit existing on the effective date of this act may adopt aresolutionauthorizing such levy and shall publish the same once each week for threeconsecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the township.If within 30 days after the date of the last publication of suchresolutiona petition, signed by electors of the township equal in number to not lessthan 10% of the qualified electors of the township whovoted forthe office of governor at the last general election for such office, isfiled in the office of the county election officer no such increasedlevy shall be made without having been approved by a majority of the electorsof the township voting at an election called and held thereon. All electionsheld under the provisions of this section shall be called and held in themanner prescribed by K.S.A. 10-120, and amendments thereto.
(c) Taxes imposed under this section shallbe levied on all the taxable tangibleproperty in the township outside of incorporated cities, and the moneys derivedtherefrom shall be used for theconstruction, reconstruction, improvement, repair and maintenance oftownship roads and culverts.
History: L. 1949, ch. 350, § 3; L. 1957, ch. 361, § 1; L.1970, ch. 385, § 3; L. 1980, ch. 327, § 1;L. 1999, ch. 154, § 51; May 27.